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[PloKoon13]

(This is from an Chelsea under-16s blog)

Frank Nouble - forward
Frank Nouble, born 24 September 1991, is a fast and tricky striker that currently plays for the Chelsea youth team. He is still a schoolboy but he has already featured for the under 18's this season scoring a goal in the process. Frank was a key figure in the under 16's last season and he scored a hat-trick in a match against the St Gallen youth team in The Swiss Under 16 Cup. His pace and trickery makes him a nightmare for defenders to deal with. His 6ft 4in frame and his ability to hold the ball up does not make it any easier for defenders. His pedigree is already being noticed at the under 18's level even thou he could still be playing at the under 16's. This season he has made 1 start and 3 sub appearances for the under 18's scoring 2 goals. He has form a formidable strike partnership with Adam Phillip in the junior ranks. He is also comfortable as a left sided winger and he has already made his debut at reserves level in a match against Birmingham reserves.

Ivorian born Frank Nouble is multi- talented as he also compete's in junior inter school athletic events. He is also tipped for a great future in atheletics as much as in football.


Pace... left-footed, and able to hold the ball up? Sounds good!


Milan Lalkovic - forward
Milan is a young striker for the Chelsea under 16's youth team, he drew comparisons to Barcelona's Bojan due to his style of play and eye for goal.
He was first spotted in a youth match between Slovakia and Hungary where he impressed the staff watching and was subsequently invited to a trial at the club. He didn't do his chances any harm by reportedly scoring 4 goals in 1 youth match, he was invited for four trials in all and after the fourth trail his dad said "A week before the last visit in London we already knew that we would move there and stay on a permanent basis from 1st July," the player’s father told SITA. "Chelsea director of youth development Frank Arnesen announced it to us"

He is already earning rave reviews and he is already playing for the slovakian under 17 team at his tender age.He was part of the chelsea youth team that played in the 2007 Northern Ireland Milk Cup, where he bagged a couple of goals. Despite Chelsea only reaching the quater-finals, Milan Lalkovic impressed the tournament organizers enough to win the player of the tournament alongside two other players.Milan will undoubtedly be in the under 18 team soon, as his talent surpasses his age category already.

This guy seems to be somewhat of a prodigy! Can him and Stoch form some sort of partnership?

[PloKoon13]

Can I add that Nouble scored for us in the FA Youth Cup against Walsall tonight... as well as against DC United's Youth team a couple of weeks ago.

[mad_mac]

Cheers for the updates mate!

[just]

I hate these type of threads.

Can you please change the title of the thread to:

"Two promising youngsters who we may as well forget about because they will never be given an opportunity to play with our first team no matter how good they are."

[dkw]

just, on Jan 15 2009, 07:16 AM, said:

I hate these type of threads.

Can you please change the title of the thread to:

"Two promising youngsters who we may as well forget about because they will never be given an opportunity to play with our first team no matter how good they are."

or maybe we could change the thread to "some good news that others will just turn around and slag" or maybe "two players who we hope will do well at the club but people on here will just come on this thread and post they wont make it as usual without actually saying anything useful at all"

nouble looks petty impressive, hes a big old unit and is pretty quick. not really head much of lalkovic but what i have heard is promising.

[The Moos]

Don't know anything about Lalkovic apart from the fact that his name sounds funny and makes me laugh out loud...

Nouble is good though. Young but already a big strong lad. A bit like Drogba and he has proved already that he can score.

[just]

dkw, on Jan 15 2009, 11:34 AM, said:

or maybe we could change the thread to "some good news that others will just turn around and slag" or maybe "two players who we hope will do well at the club but people on here will just come on this thread and post they wont make it as usual without actually saying anything useful at all"

or maybe,

"Two promising youngsters who are going to be out on loan for the next three seasons, who will eventually come back and sit on the bench watching the likes of Florent Malouda for a year, before finally being sold to Port Vale"

[g3.7]

I like nouble a lot... think he has a lot more going for him than sinclair or stock for example.

pretty sure he's right footed though. and definately sure he's one of about 400 players in our youth team able to depress me less than malouda does.

[Scott]

"Promising youngsters that will go on loan 5 or 6 times before being sold to a lower league/foreign club"

[dkw]

Scott, on Jan 15 2009, 16:10 PM, said:

"Promising youngsters that will go on loan 5 or 6 times before being sold to a lower league/foreign club"

how about you actually take a part in the thread instead of just posting sh*t like this.

[just]

dkw, on Jan 15 2009, 17:29 PM, said:

how about you actually take a part in the thread instead of just posting sh*t like this.

Com'on dkw. It's only a bit of a laugh. We're not exactly famous for giving youngsters a chance are we?

[dkw]

just, on Jan 15 2009, 17:55 PM, said:

Com'on dkw. It's only a bit of a laugh. We're not exactly famous for giving youngsters a chance are we?

maybe not, but do we need every single thread to degenerate into this? if i post something about a young player at chelsea i wouldnt mind a few people having a decent discussion about the player for once instead of becoming a slag chelseas youth policy off session.

[Ruh Buh Juh]

There's another forward that's looking good too - Fabio Borini

[dkw]

Ruh Buh Juh, on Jan 15 2009, 18:54 PM, said:

There's another forward that's looking good too - Fabio Borini

he`ll never play for the first team....... hes the one im most excited about after kakuta to be honest. i dunno why but the fact weve got a young italian striker whos banging in goals in the youth team is pretty cool. only problem is as soon as he gets anywhere near the 1st team he`ll be dubbed "the new zola" and thats some reputation to live up to.

[loz]

On dkw's point it is a bit weird that the whole 'youth will never get a chance' argument is suddenly being made so vocally. Ranieri was the lat manager who entertained the idea of giving young players a decent run out and yet we have heard very little complaints about it in the past 4 seasons.

[mad_mac]

So,
someone come on and talks about a couple promising youngsters, and another poster says "they'll be loaned out for 3 seasons then sold!" and you wish folk would stop being so critical of the youth policy. Then RBJ comes on and mentions Borini and the first words you say are "he'll never make the first team!"

Sorry mate, but that is quite a contradiction

Scott

[dkw]

mad_mac, on Jan 15 2009, 19:06 PM, said:

So,
someone come on and talks about a couple promising youngsters, and another poster says "they'll be loaned out for 3 seasons then sold!" and you wish folk would stop being so critical of the youth policy. Then RBJ comes on and mentions Borini and the first words you say are "he'll never make the first team!"

Sorry mate, but that is quite a contradiction

Scott

its called sarcasm mate..... thats one thing that really bugs me loz, no one seemed bothered about a lack of youth players when jose was here and we were winning leagues. strange how now its a lot of peoples main bugbear.

[mad_mac]

loz, on Jan 15 2009, 11:01 AM, said:

On dkw's point it us a bit weird that the whole 'youth will never get a chance' argument is suddenly being mad so vocally. Ranierie was the lat manager who entertained the idea of giving young players a decent run out and yet we have heard very little complaints about it in the past 4 seasons.

Yeah the whole deal of youth being used wasn't exactly top of Jose's list! It has been a problem for a while now, so it's not suprising that we are so sceptical!

[Scott]

Well it's been 10 years since JT broke into the first team so maybe we are due a youth product to pan out. I also feel we haven't given our youth enough chances. But facts need to be faced, it's not going to happen under Roman.

Chelse Young Players of the year:

1996 - Jody Morris

1997 - Nick Crittenden

1998 - John Terry

1999 - Sam Dalla Bona

2000 - Rhys Evans

2001 - Leon Knight

2002 - Carlton Cole

2003 - Robert Huth

2004 - Robert Huth

2005 - Robert Huth

2006 - Lassana Diarra

2007- Mikel Obi


2 in 12 years were good enough for Chelsea and only 4 English that's the reality.

[mad_mac]

Sorry Dave, missed the sarcasm! I do remember stating, especially during Jose's reign, that I wish he'd give some of the youth players a run out. Particularly in cup games, or when the opposition was dead and buried. But back then he only had 5 subs too. It's just frstrating that we have 7 subs now, and still the benches are filled with defenders, or youth team players who get about 10 minutes max at the end of the game.

I think what is troubling me the most, is that there is now a real probability of some youth players making it into the first team, and yet they are not being used. If we are not to be a buying club anymore, then why are we bringing in players like Miniero? Surely it'd be more beneficial, and a real confidence boost to the youth team set up as a whole, if we were to not sign miniero and instead use someone from the YT set up!

If we are to be more frugle in the transfer markets, then I'd at least like to see us try and utilitize our youth players as an option insead of buying. It'd be good to see a blend of buying and nurturing. I also think, when Jose took over, we were still a buying team, so it was much easier to look at other "world class" footballers (a term often banded about in the forums) to fill our voids. I just hope now, we look at the options under our noses first. Everton did it, and they got Rooney

Scott