Saints Academy Thread

Is he a pretty boy then?

 

Very happy with that, looks like one of our best prospects in the u18's.

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-05-15/kornelius-hansen-contract-announcement-southampton-1718

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-05-15/video-kornelius-hansen-contract-signing-southampton-1718

Edit: also im pretty sure he's away with the norway squad right now so this was obviously a timed release.

 

Nice message from Will Wood....hope it works out for him. Can be a very difficult time after being nurtured for so long in one place.

 

Just in case anyone is interested UEFA European u17 Championship semi-final just kicking off on ITV 4.

England v Netherlands

 

Few academy lads being told they can go

 

I'd noticed that, do you know how we're replacing them? are we just promoting the u18's or are we planning on buying youth?

 

Most of the names on the much publicised list of players out of contract this summer were from the academy so expecting a considerable change round

 

No idea. I just know many don't like Hunter, but he is friends with Les

 

There will always be players released from the youth squads....they can't all make it and room needs to be made for those behind them.

 

Surprise, surprise!

 

I don't think a youth player would deliberately jeopardise their own career because they don't like a coach.

 

Well the Norwegian lad signed recently so it can't be that bad. Maybe there are a fair few in the academy who just won't make Premier League standard and it's as simple as that.

 

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/...-be-grateful-to-dundee-united-for-loan-spell/

Harry Lewis talking about his loan spell at Dundee United. He came out top in their ratings, but admits he is surprised as he was dissatisfied with his performances later in the season. Comes over as yet another of our nice lads.

Be nice if we produced a goalie in-house for once. Never been done (unless someone really ancient can remember one....Beddy??).

 

Was Gerry Gurr homegrown?
Was a decent keeper until he had injury issues, maybe a shoulder problem.

 

That's certainly the case. When we change our policy on not loaning players out aw ended up with a hole in our squad where when we got injuries we ended up with players like 15 yr old Vokins playing for the u23's. that seemed to result in us keeping players that weren't good enough while our better players were loaned out. we also had a couple i wanted to stay leave. we seemed to have mostly filled out our squad last season to better cope with the loans with players like Tella and Bednarek, so the players that were really on borrowed time are now leaving. The u18's also has better prospects than the last couple of years, but we will still need to replace a fair few of them imo.

It is always sad to see players like Will Wood go though as he was very much one of our own.

 

Not really, Gerry Gurr started off at Arsenal, then went to QPR and then Guildford, and we spotted him there and signed him as an 18 year old.

 

Shilts was a in public house goalie...