Everton Academy promotes a new batch of scholars

Couldn't the Club have loaned the other eight a Club tie?

Or god forbid, given them one!!!

Did the photo cut off the last two or have they been transferred already?

I bet half of them spell Thursday with an f, and drop the g from the end of as many words as possible. This is another cover from Kenwright to hide the fact fuck all is happening.

Heaven forbid we get something along the lines of “Their parents must be proud… big day in their lives… the journey gets real now chaps… best wishes to you all… Good look, boys”

That would have a whiff of positivity, wouldn't it…??

Mind you, George, I would be even more happier if you took over from namesake Jordan when he retires.

Our fellows who pay attention to our U-Teams, any of these stand out?

Reminds me though of when I used to get the number 10 into town with me Mam. "One and a scholar please…"

My mum used to worry about me because I was 17 at the time.🙄

And how anyone can come on here and be negative about a group of young kids becoming professional footballers is beyond me.

I wish them all nothing but success with us or elsewhere.

I don't see that anyone has been negative about the lads but you don't appear to be able to understand what is written in black and white anyway.

Good luck, lads.

I wish them well and hope they all have successful careers playing football.

Look at the home page of this site.

Plus I don't read the OS.

But definitely not on the TW homepage.

For fuck's sake… HaHaHa. There's always one.

So 55555 to you too.

Wish them all the best and hope even 1 of them (if not most and all) can be successful for us. Does anyone who follows the youngsters give any more info about them?

I think it's a fake picture made by the club to fool us that we have enough players in all departments. Now before I get the PC brigade criticizing me, I'm obviously trying to lighten our pre-season mood.

They could always come and join us in the away end, but that my scare them off!!

Good luck to them in their careers. I hope that is with Everton for one or two of them. If not, then in football.

Good luck, lads, I hope you all make a good career for yourselves, preferably with EFC!

Who knows the way we are selling and not buying they might be by August, or at least pushing zimmer frames for the older squad members. 🤣

Good luck – you'll need it at Basket Case Towers. 🤡💙

Goof luck to them. Hope they know the journey is only beginning and they haven't made it yet.
Thousands of kids like these will be dreaming of making it to the first team a small percentage will go on to make a good living in the game and an even smaller percentage will make it as a regular Premier leauge player.

George Morgan may have been born in Milton Keynes but he's playing for Wales at youth level, but no real stand-out performances from him. Harrison Armstrong has shown a bit of promise in the few bits I've seen of him but again nothing memorable yet.

Good luck to them all, I hope a couple can get through to the U21s first, then the first team, sometimes the opportunity to train and play full-time provides just the thing for some to kick on.

I was a bit bewildered myself by the first several negative remarks. These are school kids — we know the odds are stacked against them but surely this is one group at the club who haven't conned us, let us down or bled us dry.

Tried it here in Australia, no traction.

Although old mate in the sneakers might need to have a look at himself.

I'll have to check on my other two.

As for my comment about them becoming professionals.

_new scholars who have been promoted from the Academy to the U18s as full-time players for the upcoming season_

I said they were ‘a group of young kids becoming professionals' they are all going full time. Never said anything about signing professional contracts?

Semantics are a funny thing. You can usually find whatever your look for if you try hard enough.

Maybe if you read what was written in black and white, paused and thought before you posted your frankly rude responses, you'd decide against getting into the weeds in terms of semantics.

Doubt it though, cheap dig probably more your style.

Let's wait until they get can buy a pint in a pub before we infect them with the negativity and hate reserved for our 21-year-olds the second they're not perfect. 🤣

At least we've got our new wonder weapon almost complete. That will vanquish all our enemies. Heil Kenwright!

Get my coat?

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya.

Surely kids progressing through the ranks happens every year?

Not usually newsworthy because everyone knows they're headed to Chesterfield, Darlington, Tranmere etc.

Is it too cynical to suggest this is another naff deflection from another hilarious transfer window?

For my metaphor to work, we'd have to have a Victory in Europe day first – that looks further off than ever.

That said, Kenwright might yet meet his own Nuremberg in October.

Is this the club being cynical? Hmm, I always thought it was them doing something nice for the players and their families, giving them a moment in the sun to appreciate all the work and likely sacrifice in getting them this far.

https://www.facebook.com/Everton/videos/meet-the-scholars-2017/10154513004136277/

But yes, many will not make it, that's very perceptive of you, so pooh-pooh to the lot of them.

A few years before that, we had some great prospects like Davies and Kenny that we could have sold but never, allowing them to leave on frees a few years later.

Woking of course.

I see the point went right over your head.

Some people may be disappointed when they see a lad like Simms leave but this is what the Academy needs to do to be productive. A self-sufficient academy or even a profitable academy is a must for us.

For every Anthony Gordon, there are 40-50 players every couple of years that are not going to rake in £40 - 50M. But if we keep churning out £3-4-6-10M young lads, then that's a positive.

Yes, a few may prove themselves away from Everton but you can't hold on to all of them just in case they become top class. Loan after loan until they are 22 or 23, then it's obvious they are not good enough.

Class is visible from a young age, imo. If they are not knocking on the first-team door by 21 or even established themselves by then, then it's a time they are still classed as potential and have a value that reflects that.

If they are left in the Under-21s or constantly loaned out, they are not progressing their value drops.

We now have Cannon who moves up to take Simms's place as the young striker trying to prove he's Premier League quality. We have £6-10m banked and, imo, the squad is not worse, quality-wise.

I do but it's completely eluded you in your attempt to waffle about why we should have an academy.

Or will your next clue be in the form of a riddle?

"Not usually newsworthy… Is it too cynical to suggest this is another naff deflection from another hilarious transfer window?"

Plain as day if your comprehension skills take precedence over trying to be a smart-arse.

In case my point went over your head; I'm saying that it can hardly be a 'naff deflection' if the club does this every year regardless of how hilarious you find the transfer window.

My other point, in case you're interested, is that not "everybody knows" where they'll end up, so try being a smart-arse rather than a misery guts.

In which case, you will comfortably dig out the same story and equivalent pics from let's say - the last 5 years on TW.

In your own time…

That's from last year and took me about 3 secs to find, though there are no pictures so you'll probably count that as some kind of win.

Meet Everton's 2021-22 Academy Scholars

Couldn't find it on TW but on the club website. I'm sure there would have been a thread on it though.

Try not to worry about it, kiddo, you're not the first to see what they want to see and invent imaginary dragons to slay here.

Before going all smartarse, take a deep breath, read the comment again and make sure you understand the actual point – not what you imagine.

Shame about the handbags on this thread though

Here's to a less hilarious transfer window going forwards

We haven't got a functioning board any more. A complete disgrace at this point of the year when every other club seems to be making strides in the transfer market in preparation for the season ahead. Deep down, we all know the reason for this and who is to blame for it.

I was thinking today about Usmanov's sports washing. If Kenwright had done the right thing and put the club up for sale rather than 'investment' then Moshiri and his puppet master would have struggled to get a foothold in the club, as a complete overhaul of our infrastructure would have thrown the spotlight on the details of a new regime. But by getting Moshiri to prop him up and turn on the money laundering tap for his train set, Kenwright merely became the puppet of a puppet and now we're all f**ked.