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Under 18's updates - 25/26 season (from p77)

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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364

  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,224
    Pearce Out
    I've heard that some of the parents might agree with you.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Looks like next seasons first year u18s have been signing their deals.



  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364


  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,966
    At least one of them is smiling! 
  • charltonnick
    charltonnick Posts: 3,063
    Nice to see one of them looks happy
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,272
    Good to see them signing. @Scoham who was the one you picked out in a.young age group a month or so ago that looked so amazing... Is he old.enough to be signing or was he U15?
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Good to see them signing. @Scoham who was the one you picked out in a.young age group a month or so ago that looked so amazing... Is he old.enough to be signing or was he U15?
    Mishel Nduka, looks like he’s the year below as he was with England u15s in December.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DDKgvl3OSEi/?igsh=MTZ6c3N5ZmdzaTR2bw==
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,966
    Scoham said:
    Good to see them signing. @Scoham who was the one you picked out in a.young age group a month or so ago that looked so amazing... Is he old.enough to be signing or was he U15?
    Mishel Nduka, looks like he’s the year below as he was with England u15s in December.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DDKgvl3OSEi/?igsh=MTZ6c3N5ZmdzaTR2bw==
    An anxious wait before he can sign pro with us then. Only been following the academy closer recently but can’t remember many (any?) playing England age group stuff for a while 
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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    fenaddick said:
    Scoham said:
    Good to see them signing. @Scoham who was the one you picked out in a.young age group a month or so ago that looked so amazing... Is he old.enough to be signing or was he U15?
    Mishel Nduka, looks like he’s the year below as he was with England u15s in December.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DDKgvl3OSEi/?igsh=MTZ6c3N5ZmdzaTR2bw==
    An anxious wait before he can sign pro with us then. Only been following the academy closer recently but can’t remember many (any?) playing England age group stuff for a while 
    Yeah definitely. Only recent one I remember is James Beadle, I think he was with England before moving to Brighton?

    Googling him, it looks like Jeremy Sarmiento was another before we lost him to Benfica. He’s now playing for Ecuador’s senior team.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Scoham said:
    fenaddick said:
    Scoham said:
    Good to see them signing. @Scoham who was the one you picked out in a.young age group a month or so ago that looked so amazing... Is he old.enough to be signing or was he U15?
    Mishel Nduka, looks like he’s the year below as he was with England u15s in December.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DDKgvl3OSEi/?igsh=MTZ6c3N5ZmdzaTR2bw==
    An anxious wait before he can sign pro with us then. Only been following the academy closer recently but can’t remember many (any?) playing England age group stuff for a while 
    Yeah definitely. Only recent one I remember is James Beadle, I think he was with England before moving to Brighton?

    Googling him, it looks like Jeremy Sarmiento was another before we lost him to Benfica. He’s now playing for Ecuador’s senior team.
    Yeutembip as well who went to Newcastle? - Or do you mean those capped by England before they departed?
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,023
    Chizzy Ezenwata who went to Chelsea is England capped but I assume that happened since he left. 
  • Paddy Powell
    Paddy Powell Posts: 2,842
    Bradley Tagoe has played for England - one start and one sub appearance for the U16s against Italy (August 2023).
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Love this - what an opportunity for him. Waltham Cross were in the 12th tier this season. Step 8 refers to the non-league pyramid.


  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,966
    Exactly the kind of player we should be looking for 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,203
    My Waltham Cross supporting mate really rates him  :disappointed:

    Know nothing about him but there is untapped talent out there so worth the punt.
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,023
    Am always surprised we never seem to be linked to non league talent. Good to see us looking at that because there's a lot of talent out there. 
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,272
    edited May 20
    I'm glad we have a scouting network wide enough to spot some talent from lower levels.  Good luck to him.
    I think having an U21 squad of ex PL youth and other hidden gems balanced with the best of the U18s is good.  
    I am a huge supporter of our youth team but in recent years we have maybe carried a few for too many years.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    U18 fixtures are on the OS, start the season at home to Wigan.

    https://www.charltonafc.com/fixture/list/818
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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987
    Scoham said:
    The U16s are playing Watford in the PDL Cup Final.

    Only one I know about is Raynon Richman who came on as a sub in the recent u17 cup final vs Spurs, he’s a pacey wide player.


    Disappointing that since this final it's been announced that both Gokah and Nduka have been poached by PL clubs.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    https://www.instagram.com/p/DMiYJYJMruQ/?img_index=2&igsh=MXRpcGtjMjN1OGxvdw==

    Reuben Gokah’s put up photos in which he’s wearing Charlton training kit, though it’s Castore so will be last seasons.
  • Paddy Powell
    Paddy Powell Posts: 2,842
    A combined U13/14s side begin their Super Cup NI campaign today against Tottenham.

    Fixtures/results/squad can be found here: https://supercupni.com/team/charlton-athletic/
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    A combined U13/14s side begin their Super Cup NI campaign today against Tottenham.

    Fixtures/results/squad can be found here: https://supercupni.com/team/charlton-athletic/
    Some familiar surnames there, wonder if any are sons or relatives of our former players? Kiely, Church and May.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Our u18s beat Hastings Utd u23s 2-1 tonight.

    We went 1-0 down in the first half, conceded from a corner, scored by what looked like he was likely a senior Hastings striker. They had a CB who also looked like he could have been a first team player.

    No team sheet available and the whiteboard only had lineups from a previous game, so hard to tell who was who. The pitch wasn’t great, imagine they’ll be used to better, and bizarrely Hastings had white numbers on the back of their white shirts.

    We played 4-3-3 and believe we subbed everyone except our GK and LB during the second half.

    First half we had a few decent moves resulting in efforts at goal, but easy saves straight at the Hastings GK.

    We scored both our goals in the second half, both times got the ball into the box and scored from low finishes. Our sub striker scored one of them, can’t remember if the other was from our 11 on the left wing or a sub midfielder - my guess is one of them was Ellis McMillan and the other Michael Mylona, but could be wrong on both.

    Believe Jack Belton was our number 4 and captain, he played the Coventry role, similar in style dropping deep in front of or alongside the CBs.

    It was probably Bradley Tagoe on the right wing, tricky and agile, cutting onto his left.

    Our number 10 showed a few nice touches early on but nothing much came from it.

    Second half our two sub CBs looked like they had a physical presence about them and were comfortable on the ball. The right sided one may have been Tate Elliott, who looked promising vs Spurs on the streamed cup final last season. I’d like to know who our left sided sub CB was, even though I wouldn’t read too much into a friendly like this.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Looks like the sub LCB was Chetam Ezenwata, must be his dad on Instagram putting up photos and clips of him in preseason games for our u18s and u21s.

    https://www.instagram.com/endykingboy

    Has stuff on his profile about the striker Chizzy Ezenwata who left us for Chelsea, so I assume they're brothers.

    One I hope we hang on to, and perhaps pushing him into the u21s even if just for friendlies is part of that. Wasn't much to go on but one of those players you sense has potential.
  • Gisappointed
    Gisappointed Posts: 985
    Appreciate your insights into our Addick stars of tommorow.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    https://www.instagram.com/endykingboy/?ig_mid=58A0C74C-2E94-4680-ABB2-766433A121AB&utm_source=igweb

    Latest post confirms the LCB was the younger Ezenwata brother. A few clips of him on there, being left footed and physically big he’s going to catch the attention of scouts.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,364
    Looking on Instagram the u18s drew 1-1 away at Everton over the weekend.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,966
    First year scholars announced, congratulations to all

    https://www.charltonafc.com/news/first-year-scholars-confirmed-202526