Last week I saw a tweet from Tomi Adeloye saying he had to make the biggest decision of his life,
On Friday he confirmed he signed for Millwall.
I know he is not a well known name and as he only went Millwall he is probably not fantastic but still probably good enough for us.
It comes in the same year we lost:
Kasey Palmer to Chelsea
Semi Ajayi to Arsenal
I know we don't have any money but we cant keep losing the best young players at the club especially for such nominal fees.
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On a slightly different note I was at Gatwick early this morning and the England U16 team came in on a flight from Tampa, blimey what an entourage that was. There were as many support staff as there were players. When I got there I saw loads of Addison Lee drivers lined up and yep every person in that party got their own taxi. Wonder how many in that squad will end up playing in the PL?
Academy graduate Harry Lennon has signed a new contract which commits him to Charlton until 2016
Academy graduate Harry Lennon has signed a new contract which commits him to Charlton until 2016, the club announced on Monday afternoon.
The defender, who featured on the first-team substitute’s bench for the first time in November’s win at Birmingham City, has been rewarded for his impressive form in Jason Euell’s U21 side with a new deal.
A left-footed centre-back, who has been at the club since U9 level, Lennon made eight appearances for the U21 side that won the Professional Development League 2 – South title last season.
The Romford-born defender will now be hoping to join fellow academy products Joe Pigott and Jordan Cousins by making his first team-debut before the end of the season.
Think that move says more about his future (or lack of) at Charlton.
Thing is like some will realise on here (and some wont) some lads develop quicker at that age so can look and have the physicality of someone 2/3 years older than them making the game look easy as they are playing against some kids half their size.
When they get 16/17, and everybody has done adult growing the chances of them still looking light years ahead is minimal.
At the same time as Tomi and my son in the Kent League there was a kid who was 13, looked like Ronaldo was European, his thighs were the size of my sons waist and had better stubble than me. He was everywhere training, Tottenham, Arsenal, West Ham but still playing for his sunday side as he lived in deepest Kent, however by the time was 16 everybody else had caught up in the size department and he was just unnoticeable on the pitch.
Some players in my sons age group at the time didn't play for a team and didn't have a great interest in football till they were 14 actually progressed rapidly and got their 2 year contracts when they turned 16 at pro clubs making the poxy trips 3 times a week to Gills for my son look a joke as he was nowhere near when he turned 16, although he progressed and developed really late when he was 17.
The amount of players who got 2 year contracts when they turned 16 and I silently thought in my head 'fck mine, howd they get that' was a unreal. Tomi wasn't one of them to add.
http://www.stokecityfc.com/news/article/under-18s-hold-everton-to-draw-1436775.aspx
http://www.stretfordendarising.com/youth/2014/04/29/u18s-manchester-united-3-2-stoke-city/
The second of which calls him a inform striker
But according to this he still plays for Milwall and he is not in the list of Academy players on the stoke website
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/tomi-adeloye/profil/spieler/317449
Along with Stewart who went Peterborough.
Good luck to him.
if Palmer and Ajayi had stayed I wonder if they would be first team now
Ajayi I think has been on the Arsenal bench a couple of times, but nothing seems to have happened with Palmer.
and the subject of this thread has played a bit part in 3 of stokes under 21 matches this season