Re: Arsenal U23s & U18s Thread

[RealGunner]

Arsenal U18 trash Chelsea U18 4-1

New coach Frans De Kat off to a good start.

Read the report here

http://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/de-kat-restores-positive-vibe-to-arsenal-u18s-as-chelsea-are-thrashed/

[Jay29]

U21 side to play WBA:

Illiev; Bellerin, O'Connor, Ajayi, Ormonde-Otteweill; Hayden; Campbell, Coquelin, Diaby, Crowley; Akpom

Arsenal leading already via a Crowley free-kick.

[RealGunner]

Main man Diaby

[Jay29]

2-0 now. Chuba Akpom.

[Sri]

2-0 now. Chuba Akpom.

Is there a stream?

[Jay29]

Unfortunately, Arsenal have decided not to follow in the steps of United, City and Chelsea and not live stream their youth games. So I'm afraid we're stuck with live commentary and whatever highlights they give us afterwards.

[EL Patron]

rightly so, probably done to protect the young ones from the hype.

[Sri]

rightly so, can you imagine the amount of hype the fans would dish out  

Can be arguable.. With all the social media and twatter shat, there are enough ways to hype youngsters anyway..

[RealGunner]

Akpom hattrick

Joel having a great match too apparently.

[RealGunner]

Match Report

http://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/akpom-scores-hat-trick-and-diaby-and-campbell-play-as-arsenal-u21s-beat-west-brom/

[DuringTheWar]

Bend it like crowley

[urbaNRoots]

Crowley seems to score/assist like every game

[El Gunner]

Crowley remind me of a certain Jack Wilshere back in the academy days.
Wilshere also used to score and assist like crazy.

[Jay29]

Highlights are up:

http://player.arsenal.com/player/5373-under-21s-v-west-brom-h

Looks like Hayden play RW and Campbell just behind Akpom.

[RealGunner]

Jonker on his role at Arsenal

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20140903/video-jonker-on-his-role-at-arsenal


Very interesting and a good watch/read. Well worth it.

[Jay29]

Part two of Jonker interview:

http://player.arsenal.com/player/5392-jonker-on-the-academy

That's [a focus on the academy] what Louis bought in Bayern Munich. It's typical for Ajax, typical for Dutch football and I felt very comfortable with that. When I spoke in the beginning with Ivan Gazidis, he explained to me the philosophy of the club, in line with Arsene Wenger. I felt very at home with it. It was nothing strange to me. It felt like this is how it has to be.

For me, it's very important that we have a coach like Arsene, because if a coach doesn't want to bring through players, you can immediately ask why do you have an academy. So I'm very happy Arsene extended his contract. Of course, we spoke to each other before I signed. We got to know each other, and I think it's fine between us because his goal is to bring young players and my goal is to develop young players for him.

I also asked, if Arsene might leave, what kind of coach will come. The people at the top of the club told me, if he leaves we will bring in another coach in the philosophy of Arsenal. They won't bring in a coach denying the academy. That was very important to me because this is a long-term project and it doesn't make sense to do this for a couple of years and then have the next manager say 'forget about this'.

[MJ]

Reassuring to hear that the club are focused on maintaining their vision of producing talent through our academy even after Wenger.

[RealGunner]

Arsenal have submitted our squad for this seasons UEFA Youth League


http://www.uefa.com/uefayouthleague/season=2015/clubs/club=2605532/squad/index.html

[Sri]

Check out the under-21s game at Aston Villa this Thursday in our LIVE stream on ‪#‎Arsenal‬ Player from 6.45pm! http://arsn.al/olRFrU

[RealGunner]

Arsenal Under-21s team: Martinez, Bellerin, Hayden, O'Connor, Ormonde-Ottewill, Maitland-Niles, Diaby, Coquelin, Crowley, Zelalem, Akpom

Apparently match is live on Arsenal Player

[El Gunner]

Match being broadcast live over here on tv!!!

[El Gunner]

How is Diaby playing U/21?

[Jay29]

You're allowed to play up to three overage players.

Looking forward to seeing Crowley and Akpom link up. Akpom has 4 in 3 games so far.

[El Gunner]

How are we in Division 2 btw?

[Jay29]

This is the first season with two divisions. Last season, a league of 20 teams was split into two at the end of the season, and the bottom ten became division two while the top ten became division one. Arsenal had a crap year and finished in the bottom half, hence div 2 this year.

[RealGunner]

AKPOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

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