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Re: The Future Stars (Wonderkid) Thread

Postby Zenith » Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:44 am

Leon Bailey, Jamaican winger is showing some very good signs at Genk lately. Shouldn't be too long before he makes his first cap for Jamaica. Already managed to get in their u23s and scored on his debut.

Can't find a compilation of him yet but here's one of his recent goals

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Re: The Future Stars (Wonderkid) Thread

Postby BS221B » Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:12 am

elkanofan wrote:There are no wonderkids in world football anymore.

All the kids mentioned here alone are just good talents.

A wonder kid is someone like Micheal Owen from 18-21 years old being the Europes best player. Or even Cristiano Ronaldo in his one trick pony teenage days.

Nowadays you dont get any wonderkids whatsoever, just good talents.

im sure Gianluigi Donnarumma is a wonderkid.
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Re: The Future Stars (Wonderkid) Thread

Postby Sims » Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:16 am

Scuffet was supposed to be that keeping wonderkid now he's not even the brightest goalkeeping prospect at Udinese
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Re: The Future Stars (Wonderkid) Thread

Postby elkanofan » Wed Jan 06, 2016 3:14 am

Zenith wrote:Leon Bailey, Jamaican winger is showing some very good signs at Genk lately. Shouldn't be too long before he makes his first cap for Jamaica. Already managed to get in their u23s and scored on his debut.

Can't find a compilation of him yet but here's one of his recent goals



He is already better than McLeary

https://www.facebook.com/Bullydebanton/ ... nref=story
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Re: The Future Stars (Wonderkid) Thread

Postby Zenith » Wed Jan 06, 2016 3:42 am

elkanofan wrote:
Zenith wrote:Leon Bailey, Jamaican winger is showing some very good signs at Genk lately. Shouldn't be too long before he makes his first cap for Jamaica. Already managed to get in their u23s and scored on his debut.

Can't find a compilation of him yet but here's one of his recent goals



He is already better than McLeary

https://www.facebook.com/Bullydebanton/ ... nref=story

Great strike :)

Filmed and uploaded by Craig Butler, guardian/agent of Leon Bailey and Kevaughn Atkinson and father of Kyle Butler.

All three are youth products of the Phoenix Football Academy in Jamaica, but in 2011 they came to Europe to persue their dreams...

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Many teams tried to sign Leon but there was one condition; if you're going to sign Leon you'll have to sign Kyle too, which put off some teams, including Anderlecht.

Non-EU minors are not allowed to play for an European team if the guardian (Craig) has no job outside of football, which forced them to leave Genk and move to Trencin (satellite club of Ajax), Slovakia. Over there they managed to somehow bypass the law and wait until he hit 18, which they did. Not much later Leon signed for Genk again, this time legally...

In 2011 Kevaughn, the oldest of the three signed for Bayern but there hasn't been any news about what happened to him sadly, literally seems to have disappeared from the football world...
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Pudpop » Wed Jan 06, 2016 8:14 am

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elkanofan wrote:Mueller has never been world class either, top class and one of the top 25 best players in the world but there isn't any real world class element to his game.

World class is quality like ronaldinho, cristiano ronaldo or even Neymar who could attract people to watch him who dont even care about the sport. Mueller is a guy you need to have an interest in football to appreciate.
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just no.
im not going to jump into the argument, but no.


Just needed to come back and quote this.

Elk, that post was cancerous
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby elkanofan » Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:14 am

Zenith wrote:
elkanofan wrote:
Zenith wrote:Leon Bailey, Jamaican winger is showing some very good signs at Genk lately. Shouldn't be too long before he makes his first cap for Jamaica. Already managed to get in their u23s and scored on his debut.

Can't find a compilation of him yet but here's one of his recent goals



He is already better than McLeary

https://www.facebook.com/Bullydebanton/ ... nref=story

Great strike :)

Filmed and uploaded by Craig Butler, guardian/agent of Leon Bailey and Kevaughn Atkinson and father of Kyle Butler.

All three are youth products of the Phoenix Football Academy in Jamaica, but in 2011 they came to Europe to persue their dreams...

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Many teams tried to sign Leon but there was one condition; if you're going to sign Leon you'll have to sign Kyle too, which put off some teams, including Anderlecht.

Non-EU minors are not allowed to play for an European team if the guardian (Craig) has no job outside of football, which forced them to leave Genk and move to Trencin (satellite club of Ajax), Slovakia. Over there they managed to somehow bypass the law and wait until he hit 18, which they did. Not much later Leon signed for Genk again, this time legally...

Yeah the vid is taken from his facebook page.

I havent read through the debate properly because it was about 100 pages of beef but on my Jamaican forum Craig Butler was having a very heated argument with people regarding his practice he took with the boys.

The whole thing was a big gamble he took which seems to have paid of somewhat with Leon.

Jamaica has always had many, many talents but the structure there is so, just well... non existant is an understatement in getting players to good teams to develop. Hopefully if Leon continues to rise we can start putting in some sort of structure where we can send players to some european teams earlier.
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby elkanofan » Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:17 am

Pudpop wrote:
Maradonna wrote:
elkanofan wrote:Mueller has never been world class either, top class and one of the top 25 best players in the world but there isn't any real world class element to his game.

World class is quality like ronaldinho, cristiano ronaldo or even Neymar who could attract people to watch him who dont even care about the sport. Mueller is a guy you need to have an interest in football to appreciate.
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just no.
im not going to jump into the argument, but no.


Just needed to come back and quote this.

Elk, that post was cancerous

Its true though what we call world class in this generation is not the same class needed as generations before. Mueller would has just been a top play 15/20 years ago.
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Zenith » Wed Jan 06, 2016 3:23 pm

elkanofan wrote:
Zenith wrote:
elkanofan wrote:
Zenith wrote:Leon Bailey, Jamaican winger is showing some very good signs at Genk lately. Shouldn't be too long before he makes his first cap for Jamaica. Already managed to get in their u23s and scored on his debut.

Can't find a compilation of him yet but here's one of his recent goals



He is already better than McLeary

https://www.facebook.com/Bullydebanton/ ... nref=story

Great strike :)

Filmed and uploaded by Craig Butler, guardian/agent of Leon Bailey and Kevaughn Atkinson and father of Kyle Butler.

All three are youth products of the Phoenix Football Academy in Jamaica, but in 2011 they came to Europe to persue their dreams...

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Many teams tried to sign Leon but there was one condition; if you're going to sign Leon you'll have to sign Kyle too, which put off some teams, including Anderlecht.

Non-EU minors are not allowed to play for an European team if the guardian (Craig) has no job outside of football, which forced them to leave Genk and move to Trencin (satellite club of Ajax), Slovakia. Over there they managed to somehow bypass the law and wait until he hit 18, which they did. Not much later Leon signed for Genk again, this time legally...

Yeah the vid is taken from his facebook page.

I havent read through the debate properly because it was about 100 pages of beef but on my Jamaican forum Craig Butler was having a very heated argument with people regarding his practice he took with the boys.

The whole thing was a big gamble he took which seems to have paid of somewhat with Leon.

Jamaica has always had many, many talents but the structure there is so, just well... non existant is an understatement in getting players to good teams to develop. Hopefully if Leon continues to rise we can start putting in some sort of structure where we can send players to some european teams earlier.

I guess we'll never really know for sure if Craig's genuinely doing this to help these young lads persue their dreams or whether he's motivated by what it's in it for himself, financially.

March 16, 2020

Dortmund player Leon Bailey launches football school in Jamaica to offer hope to young, talented Jamaican football players to persue their dreams of becoming a professional football player.

Calling it now.
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby elkanofan » Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:26 pm

:lol: not if i make one first Zee!

The issue isn't that players can't play football since we do have a league in Jamaica, the issue is more we don't have strong connections with teams and academies in Europe to send the best talents there. There are many, many Leon Bailey like players in Jamaica, if Raheem Sterling or John Barnes weren't examples enough its that like we are seeing with Leon he could display his talent to teams in Europe and get into their development squads and be given a chance, usually our talents pay just local football and end up getting to an semi pro level by their early 20's and the best ones are lucky to make it into the MLS.
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Zenith » Thu Jan 07, 2016 4:15 pm

Hope Belgium can do their part like K.S.K Beveren (now Waasland Beveren after 2010 merge) did by launching the careers of many Ivorians in the early '00s like with Arthut Boka, Emmanuel Eboué, Igor Lolo, Gervinho, Romaric, Yaya Touré , Gilles Yapi Yapo, Barry Copa, the Né brothers and many more.

There's too many hidden gems in this planet that are being overlooked, teams need to know where to look and not always look in the most orthodox countries. Would be fantastic if a club, any club really could do the same with Jamaican players like Beveren did with the Ivorians.

Here's their 2004 cup final team :grin:

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Starting from top left to right: Igors Stepanovs :sneaky2:, Romaric, Igor Lolo, Seydou Badjan Kanté, Marco Né, Armand Mahan, Barry Copa, Emmanuel Eboué, Arthur Boka, Moussa Sanogo, Abdoulaye Djire

Yaya had just left for Metalurh Donetsk and Gervinho was still playing his football domestically.
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Santi » Thu Jan 07, 2016 5:05 pm

I see no Drogba therefore point void!


I miss our Beveren dodgy link :(
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Santi » Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:22 pm

Kylian Mbappe


future 10bn pound player at Man Utd, better than Thierry Henry already tbh.
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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Zenith » Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:23 am

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Re: The players for the future thread

Postby Sims » Tue Mar 29, 2016 11:11 am

Nailed on to go to United ain't he
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