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  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Yann897 said:

    DeeBee said:

    nth london addick said:

    Luke shaw was released by arsenal Chelsea and Fulham before being picked up by Southampton

    I have no probs signing youngsters and putting them I'm the development squad

    As much as that would be a cool story he was with Saints since the age of 8 so unless Chelsea Arsenal and Fulham had a 7 year old on their books it's unlikely
    Na your wrong mate he was at arsenal and Chelsea for a bit and had a 3 week trial at Fulham .
    yeah was constantly turned away for being "too short". Crazy reason to turn down an 8 year old.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    DeeBee said:

    nth london addick said:

    Luke shaw was released by arsenal Chelsea and Fulham before being picked up by Southampton

    I have no probs signing youngsters and putting them I'm the development squad

    As much as that would be a cool story he was with Saints since the age of 8 so unless Chelsea Arsenal and Fulham had a 7 year old on their books it's unlikely
    the son of a friend of ours was at Arsenal, Chelsea and Charlton untill he opted for Charlton around a year ago (next season he will be under 10's!)
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,978
    ForeverAddickted said:

    Well if he was born in Kingston (as it says on Wiki) then I guess he could have been at one of the London clubs before his family may have moved to Southampton

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10825434/Luke-Shaw-matured-to-prove-Arsenal-and-Chelsea-wrong-and-is-better-than-Bale-at-18.html

    Funnily he's never lived around Southampton, he always seems to have lived in Surrey
    Shaw’s life, though, was to change one afternoon in Basingstoke in 2003 when he was taking part in an under-9s tournament that was also attended by the Southampton scout Phil Spreadbury.

    “He was small, but strong and he was technically good,” recalls Spreadbury. “There were a lot of scouts at the tournament but, as far as I know, nobody else talked to him. Luke was a Chelsea fan, but I just told him and his father that Southampton was a small family club, where he would get a better chance of breaking through. I told him about lads we had, like Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott.”
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,933
    With Dorian Smith, I remember him saying he was disappointed not be be offered anything as he was as good as anyone he saw at training!
  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,205
    killerandflash said:

    ForeverAddickted said:

    Well if he was born in Kingston (as it says on Wiki) then I guess he could have been at one of the London clubs before his family may have moved to Southampton

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10825434/Luke-Shaw-matured-to-prove-Arsenal-and-Chelsea-wrong-and-is-better-than-Bale-at-18.html

    Funnily he's never lived around Southampton, he always seems to have lived in Surrey
    Shaw’s life, though, was to change one afternoon in Basingstoke in 2003 when he was taking part in an under-9s tournament that was also attended by the Southampton scout Phil Spreadbury.

    “He was small, but strong and he was technically good,” recalls Spreadbury. “There were a lot of scouts at the tournament but, as far as I know, nobody else talked to him. Luke was a Chelsea fan, but I just told him and his father that Southampton was a small family club, where he would get a better chance of breaking through. I told him about lads we had, like Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott.”


    Basingstoke is in Hampshire
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,836
    kentaddick said:

    Yann897 said:

    DeeBee said:

    nth london addick said:

    Luke shaw was released by arsenal Chelsea and Fulham before being picked up by Southampton

    I have no probs signing youngsters and putting them I'm the development squad

    As much as that would be a cool story he was with Saints since the age of 8 so unless Chelsea Arsenal and Fulham had a 7 year old on their books it's unlikely
    Na your wrong mate he was at arsenal and Chelsea for a bit and had a 3 week trial at Fulham .
    yeah was constantly turned away for being "too short". Crazy reason to turn down an 8 year old.
    How tall was he?
  • Addick90
    Addick90 Posts: 677


    ummmm.... isn't he the product of one of our old "global partnerships" in ivory coast?

    he was supposed to come to us years ago

    Siv in Urumqi said:

    interesting that Bi once signed for Liege, FROM CHARLTON!

    Might be wrong but think that was cyriac gobi bi. Who was meant to be the next big striking sensation to come out of ivory coast, who we got from asec mimosas through the partnership only to be sold immediately to standard liege - very pointless

    http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11684/4827314/gohi-bi-set-for-addicks-exit
  • jackmasterflash
    jackmasterflash Posts: 570
    Up until February this year I was 4 ft 11 and personally I think pace and strength is overrated. What people need is to develop technical skill. Great players all have technical skill. People are shortsighted and look to short term results though
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    jackmasterflash said:

    Up until February this year I was 4 ft 11 and personally I think pace and strength is overrated. What people need is to develop technical skill. Great players all have technical skill. People are shortsighted and look to short term results though

    What happened in February ?
  • AddickBen
    AddickBen Posts: 91
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    jackmasterflash said:

    Up until February this year I was 4 ft 11 and personally I think pace and strength is overrated. What people need is to develop technical skill. Great players all have technical skill. People are shortsighted and look to short term results though

    What happened in February ?
    He started wearing bigger shoes

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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    jackmasterflash said:

    Up until February this year I was 4 ft 11 and personally I think pace and strength is overrated. What people need is to develop technical skill. Great players all have technical skill. People are shortsighted and look to short term results though

    What happened in February ?


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  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,897
    edited May 2014
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  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,897
    ShootersHillGuru said:

    jackmasterflash said:

    Up until February this year I was 4 ft 11 and personally I think pace and strength is overrated. What people need is to develop technical skill. Great players all have technical skill. People are shortsighted and look to short term results though

    What happened in February ?
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,897
    edited May 2014
    or maybe these ...... for all the family.
  • Ben18
    Ben18 Posts: 1,638
    jackmasterflash said:

    Up until February this year I was 4 ft 11 and personally I think pace and strength is overrated. What people need is to develop technical skill. Great players all have technical skill. People are shortsighted and look to short term results though

    Is that you Munnsy?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,065
    Cardiff City have had a bid in excess of £3m accepted for Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban.
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Covered End said:

    Cardiff City have had a bid in excess of £3m accepted for Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban.

    How much must Yann be worth then?
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    Covered End said:

    Cardiff City have had a bid in excess of £3m accepted for Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban.

    good god! a rumour!
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,867
    dizzee said:

    Covered End said:

    Cardiff City have had a bid in excess of £3m accepted for Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban.

    How much must Yann be worth then?
    £400,000
  • Yann897
    Yann897 Posts: 1,530
    mrbligh said:

    Covered End said:

    Cardiff City have had a bid in excess of £3m accepted for Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban.

    good god! a rumour!
    Pretty much been confirmed.

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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,303
    The rumours thread seemed to have turned into the "Who did Luke Shaw pay for" thread but maybe it's now reverted to the "rumours with very tenuous links to Charlton Athletic thread" again.

    Ah, the wonders of web forums.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    edited May 2014
    Considering I know both the Chelsea and arsenal coaches who released luke shaw I can assure you he played for both

    He was also at Fulham and was picked up by sthampton at a tournament in Basingstoke

    He was released by arsenal because of his size

    They did the exact same to solly and bowyer I believe
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,451
    And now he's 6 ft 1...
  • Greenie Junior
    Greenie Junior Posts: 3,881
    dizzee said:

    Covered End said:

    Cardiff City have had a bid in excess of £3m accepted for Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban.

    How much must Yann be worth then?
    Not even half that
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,494
    Yannis Mbombo Lokwa

    A 20 year old Belgian striker who is a product of Liege's youth system is being linked on Twitter, by one account supposedly set up by CAFC supporting journos.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,015
    https://twitter.com/YannisMbombo

    No clues on his twitter account.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,494
    ValleyGary said:

    https://twitter.com/YannisMbombo

    No clues on his twitter account.

    The account tweeting it has supposedly been set up by four journalists that support CAFC, still could be kids or JA or both.

    Fits the RD profile though as he is yet to make any first team appearances. :(
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190
    Google says that he played, and scored vs Elfsborg in a 3-1 defeat

    Youtube has the goal (quite a decent finish)
  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,111
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyBEXI0Xz4g
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,494
    Dizzle said:

    Google says that he played, and scored vs Elfsborg in a 3-1 defeat

    Youtube has the goal (quite a decent finish)

    Blooming wikipedia, always forget it is written and updated by plums like me.

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