Danbert Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 https://arsenalyouth.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/arsenal-winger-nathan-tella-joins-southampton-in-permanent-deal/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 The songs write themselves. Previously linked with Norwich and Reading. Unusual for Arsenal to get rid of their youth - they usually want to nurture it. Preparing for life without Wenger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nta786 Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 The songs write themselves. Previously linked with Norwich and Reading. Unusual for Arsenal to get rid of their youth - they usually want to nurture it. Preparing for life without Wenger? Or maybe he thought we have a good track record of bringing players through so maybe he made the decision to ply his trade here. Maybe he rejected Arsenal rather than Arsenal rejecting him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Or maybe he thought we have a good track record of bringing players through so maybe he made the decision to ply his trade here. Maybe he rejected Arsenal rather than Arsenal rejecting him.Not sure this can be right as the report seems clear that he was told he would not be offered a professional contract at Arsenal. More likely our assessment of his promise is different to theirs. If he turns out to be of professional standard it will be Arsenal's mistake to have let him go but Saints have also made similar mistakes in the past, as have most clubs. This isn't a case of taking another club's cast off, but of possibly seeing potential that another club has missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kermitsaint Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Well Arsenal know we will happily sell him back to them if he ends up decent in a few years Sent from my SM-G925I using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 He would have been the trialist in the recent u18 match against Brighton then. Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie May Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Cost a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dronskisaint Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Didn't Olafela come from Arsenal Youth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Didn't Olafela come from Arsenal Youth? He did yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heisenberg Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Is he a midget and injury prone? Should fit right in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Signing photo: Pen and Tella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cat Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 If the OS don't go with New Tella as a headline they're missing a trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 He did yes Yes he did Did he? Yes One of the weird phrases that can have the same inferred meaning any which way the words are placed. Saturday night...bugger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Saint Posted 25 March, 2017 Share Posted 25 March, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingeletiss Posted 26 March, 2017 Share Posted 26 March, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? Dennis wise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted 26 March, 2017 Share Posted 26 March, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? There's not many we've released that have gone on to prove the club wrong. I never understood Tim Sparv being let good and 49 caps for Finland suggests he's a decent player still. Hardly a Pogba or Michael Keane type error though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 26 March, 2017 Share Posted 26 March, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? Kevin Phillips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 26 March, 2017 Share Posted 26 March, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? Dennis Wise Gareth Southgate Kevin Phillips Were all let go as kids by Saints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogger Posted 26 March, 2017 Share Posted 26 March, 2017 Word has it that Wenger has signed another 2 year contract and is having a summer clear out with an expected minimum 6 new players coming so no room for youngsters in the next 2 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 26 March, 2017 Share Posted 26 March, 2017 Word has it that Wenger has signed another 2 year contract and is having a summer clear out with an expected minimum 6 new players coming so no room for youngsters in the next 2 years Can we sign Ox back, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 28 March, 2017 Share Posted 28 March, 2017 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4357218/Arsenal-fear-losing-Chris-Willock-Premier-League-rivals.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGalpin Posted 28 March, 2017 Share Posted 28 March, 2017 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4357218/Arsenal-fear-losing-Chris-Willock-Premier-League-rivals.html That sounds like an agent leaking 'interest' to force Arsenal's hand in my opinion, but an interesting link all the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 28 March, 2017 Share Posted 28 March, 2017 That sounds like an agent leaking 'interest' to force Arsenal's hand in my opinion, but an interesting link all the same What's known as "doing a Slattery". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Troy Posted 28 March, 2017 Share Posted 28 March, 2017 Its an interesting one - at 19 you want to be playing mor ethan 2 games a year and at Arsenal its unlikely he will. Just have to look at how incredibly well Rashford burst on to the scene and how many games he gets at the moment. Probably should be off in championship on loan really but can see why at 19 he may feel hes better off elsewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusic Posted 28 March, 2017 Share Posted 28 March, 2017 What's known as "doing a Slattery". And he has gone downhill since all of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint IQ Posted 28 March, 2017 Share Posted 28 March, 2017 Dennis Wise Gareth Southgate Kevin Phillips Were all let go as kids by Saints. Currently playing in the Premier League we released Ings and Mings. In the Championship Lukas Jutkiewicz, prob more but can't think of any at the mo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambosa75 Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 What's known as "doing a Slattery". Indeed. His Dad played an absolute blinder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nta786 Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 Currently playing in the Premier League we released Ings and Mings. In the Championship Lukas Jutkiewicz, prob more but can't think of any at the mo Nathan Dyer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? Nathan Dyer? How does he meet the criteria of the question? Dyer wasn't released as a kid in the academy "thinking they wouldn't make the grade", Saints sold him during the admin period when he was 21 years old to raise cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 Was Southgate at saints? That seems to be a new one to pop up in these discussions, which generally come around every couple of years. Have his Southampton years only just come to light? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 Dennis Wise Gareth Southgate Kevin Phillips Were all let go as kids by Saints. Was Southgate at saints? That seems to be a new one to pop up in these discussions, which generally come around every couple of years. Have his Southampton years only just come to light? He relatively recently mentioned it in the press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 29 March, 2017 Author Share Posted 29 March, 2017 Was Southgate at saints? That seems to be a new one to pop up in these discussions, which generally come around every couple of years. Have his Southampton years only just come to light? We released him as a schoolboy: https://www.theguardian.com/football/the-agony-and-the-ecstasy/2017/mar/16/gareth-southgate-crystal-palace-captain-england-manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 I don't think we can count players who were released as schoolboys as mistakes. There are so many promising kids at that age, of course a few of the many released will make it, but it's not a terrible failure of judgement letting them go, just a prediction that has to be made. Ings was only at saints as a schoolboy as well wasn't he? I think it's more the ones who come properly through the academy and to the fringes, before we release them without giving them a chance, they are the ones we can feel got away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soggy Bottom Posted 29 March, 2017 Share Posted 29 March, 2017 Dennis Wise Gareth Southgate Kevin Phillips Were all let go as kids by Saints. I'm sure I read somewhere that Gazza (Gascoigne) had a trial with Saints and was turned down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 21 April, 2017 Share Posted 21 April, 2017 Official announcement: https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-04-21/announcement-signing-southampton-nathan-tella Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnet Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 Now has a pro contract. Nathan Tella has put pen to paper on his first professional contract as a Southampton player, just months after joining after a successful trial period following his Arsenal departure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintquin Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 Who, in your opinion, is the best player we've released thinking they wouldn't make the grade...? The other way round I know but, Newcastle letting Shearer go because "he was not a very good goalkeeper". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 The other way round I know but, Newcastle letting Shearer go because "he was not a very good goalkeeper". They were right, to be fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redslo Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 By signing Tella at age 17, he will become club trained for European purposes once he is old enough to be put on the squad list. This is obviously a consideration for the club because they expect to qualify for Europe on a semi-regular basis. After all, Isgrove was kept around for two extra years for this reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redslo Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4357218/Arsenal-fear-losing-Chris-Willock-Premier-League-rivals.html https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3945467/chris-willock-is-blazing-a-trail-for-british-starlets-with-bold-move-from-arsenal-to-benfica/ http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2017/06/30/36746942/arsenal-starlet-chris-willock-signs-five-year-deal-with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 Pen and Tella, they have missed a trick at the media department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 6 July, 2017 Share Posted 6 July, 2017 Pen and Tella, they have missed a trick at the media department. (Benji beat you to it in post no.11.) Is his mum's name Donna? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 19 June, 2020 Share Posted 19 June, 2020 Well done to the kid for getting on the pitch today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 19 June, 2020 Share Posted 19 June, 2020 36 minutes ago, SuperSAINT said: Well done to the kid for getting on the pitch today. 👏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpweySaint Posted 19 June, 2020 Share Posted 19 June, 2020 Fingers crossed if we can pick up three more points soonish we can give the young players plenty of match experience, especially with the need for rotation with such quick turnaround of games. Personally hoping to see what Jankewitz and Ferry can do before the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 20 June, 2020 Share Posted 20 June, 2020 As above, hopefully get safe and drop Hojberg out the team ready to shift him in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Posted 20 June, 2020 Share Posted 20 June, 2020 3 hours ago, SuperSAINT said: Well done to the kid for getting on the pitch today. Yes, but not agreed to a new contract and can leave for free at end of June. So why play him if not committed? PEH anyone?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSAINT Posted 20 June, 2020 Share Posted 20 June, 2020 7 hours ago, UpweySaint said: Fingers crossed if we can pick up three more points soonish we can give the young players plenty of match experience, especially with the need for rotation with such quick turnaround of games. Personally hoping to see what Jankewitz and Ferry can do before the end of the season. There’s hopefully a chance for minutes for a few of them with all the games coming up as well as the extra subs. 5 hours ago, Red said: Yes, but not agreed to a new contract and can leave for free at end of June. So why play him if not committed? PEH anyone?? Wouldn’t surprise me if we announce a deal this coming week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted 20 June, 2020 Share Posted 20 June, 2020 5 hours ago, Red said: Yes, but not agreed to a new contract and can leave for free at end of June. So why play him if not committed? PEH anyone?? To say "look, you can get match day first team minutes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st alex Posted 20 June, 2020 Share Posted 20 June, 2020 6 hours ago, Red said: Yes, but not agreed to a new contract and can leave for free at end of June. So why play him if not committed? PEH anyone?? He still has 12 months on his contract, so if he doesn't extend it I imagine we'd sell him for a fee this summer rather than let him leave for free next summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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