So we've just signed a 22-year-old midfielder from Cork City out of nowhere... I presume this is another wheeler-dealer u23s signing, but who knows.
https://www.watfordfc.com/news/official-ochieng-joins-under-23s Not completely out of nowhere @Chumlax because he played as a trialist last week for the U23s (at right-back & named as Ocheng) while he was also on trial around April 2019, the same time Kane Crichlow and Henry Wise were earning contracts.
What a CV.... West Ham Youth, Leyton Orient, Braintree Town, Welwyn Garden City, Wingate and Finchley, Cork City This guys career is obviously on an upward trajectory and at only 22 we are lucky to have him.
By sheer coincidence so is my vacuum cleaner. But it's a bit useless.....just sits in the corner collecting dust!!
We will make money on this guy, trust me. Every time that I hear his name. I hear the money going into the till.
While it sounds like a smart way to outpace an opponent, I'm pretty sure use of vehicles isn't permitted in the laws of the game.
Disappointment by the lack of a Toby Stevenson-esque meltdown on here tbh. Have some finally realised that the club makes signings for the u23 squad?
We'll loan him to a side in Holland and sell him on for 4 million. He will then be known as Henry Cha-ching
Not even that good. Disgraceful signing! Unless his only purpose is to clean Harry Pickering’s boots when he eventually signs.
Nah. Better to loan him to a club in Belgium for a few years. We’ll get over £4m in loan fee’s alone just like Oulare...
He has one appearance as a Keyna u23 international to go with his 6 appearances for Leyton Orient in League 2, then 6 appearance for Orient in the National League (obviously didn't go too well for them) given shirt no 39, remains to be seen if he plays for the first team!
It's an odd random signing, and I'm not too sure why the club bother with this type of deal. Looking at his career path he probably wouldn't make an impact even if we dropped down to the Conference. For a club looking to bounce back to the Premier League, it's another baffling signing. Only until the end of the season so we can take a look at him no doubt, but when he's been let go by West Ham's academy, Leyton Orient, Braintree, Welwyn Garden City, Wingate & Finchley and now Cork City, that's a lot of non-league teams that didn't really fancy him too much. He's 23 this year so not even that young in terms of taking a chance on a kid. I just don't understand why we make this type of signing as he'll never get anywhere near the first team. Surely signing players for the U23's is with a career path to the first team in mind? If not, why do it?
Several reasons, I guess. To fill out the squad, so the u23s aren't getting pumped every week, destroying the confidence of any who happen to have a bit of potential. To have slightly more senior options available in extreme emergency scenarios, so we're not forced to put an actual child in the starting line up. The off chance that one of them has a run of form on loan, or makes unexpected progress, and we're able to sell them for 50k to Newport County, or whoever.