From what I saw I don't think we will see any of that team become a 1st team regular. I know they are still young but not one of them stood out to have anything that shows they could make it.

 

Might be a bit harsh after just watching one match and I will be very happy to be proved wrong.

 

P.s That isn't including Eaves because he wasn't playing due to being in america, he might be good enough but I haven't seen him play

 

The players that you would expect to progress towards the first team are currently in the US so Lainton, Tope, Connolly and Eaves you would suggest you may see some or all of these on the bench this coming season on a more regular basis. The one I was surprised didn't head for the US was Vela who, in my opinion, was consistently the best player in the reserves last season. The team you saw on Saturday is very much the younger end of the age spectrum 17/18/19 yo players either playing in the reserves already or looking to push through from the Academy. There were two trialist centre halves on Saturday who I thought played well, albeit against semi pro strikers. Tom Eckersley who was injured for the final year of his scholarship at Bolton so is currently on a months trial to prove he's worth a pro contract and a former Real Madrid centre half, Jaime Navarro, who has been released and was advised by Cristiano Ronaldo to seek his future in the UK. From what I read he has had interest from a number of lower league clubs but nothing concrete has come of the interest.

Jaime Navarro was in the car with MArcos Alonso when that woman got run over.

Jaime Navarro was in the car with MArcos Alonso when that woman got run over.

 

That is true, they used to be teammates at Real Madrid.

However he didnt run anyone over. It was a passenger that died.

Apparently he's suffered a serious injury and could be out for 9 month. Some fella on another forum seems to think anyway. Shitter for the lad if true.

Someone's asked Alonso on Twitter, his reply;

 

"we dont know yet mate. we are waiting for the scan. fingers crossed for tom eaves! good man!"

 

What a shitter.