Interesting article about Southampton youngster George Mells. Will he stay, come home to Melbourne or go to Feyenoord?

It depends whether they overspent to get to this position.
The Bundesliga is not like the premier league where the Tv money is such that clubs have a huge cash injection, though in the case of Blackpool for example they ran a premier league squad on 10 million pounds and hired David Carney, while one of their directors got the club to pay them 10 million pounds.

Maty Ryan kept a clean sheet in Brugge's 0-0 draw in the first leg of the Belgian Cup away to KV Mechelen.

I think suspension is kept in the cup comp. so yes.

You'd think his preference would be us or our rich neighbours. They've overloaded on midfielders, so I hope we can pick him up :)

Yep. Second night of cup games for Belguim

Brown, mahazi, maka, brox, etc probably disagree with your theory you need more mids.

No games tonight :( shit.

Not if he plays as an attacking midfielder for us, then he'd only be fighting with Finkler and Maka. Anyway, he's only 17, NYL will probably do for a little while he sorts out this family thing.

Massing Luongo tweeting:



That's about it.

Massive news. How dare I have missed that. :lol:

It would appear one of Mells' family has an illness of some sort, that would being one of the few reasons why he might leave some of the world's top academies. City could certainly use someone of his skills.

he'd be playing HAL not youth league too, which might be good for his development to get some senior gametime amongst his junior development training.

A loan from Southampton or Feyenoord to City seems the most likely. SFC could be another possibility, but it would be most likely he would need to be very close to his family wherever they are at present, presumable in or close to Melbourne as per his junior football.

Dusseldorf Millwall Telstar all in action tonight and feature Aussies.

01:30WST / 04:30EST   Fortuna Dusseldorf - Union Berlin (Halloran again 3rd goal in 3 games ?) link
03:00WST / 06:00EST    PSV Youth - SC Telstar (Quinn, Dougall - scored last week)
03:45WST / 06:45EST   Millwall FC - Bolton Wanderers (Macdonalds) link

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Al Nasr aren't playing bro :-k

Fucking stupid stream sites.. removed

Halloran starting.

All G

Dusseldorf won with a 90 min winner over Berlin. I'm worried they may not be promoted.

Since Halloran has been starting, Dusseldorf have improved dramatically. They have a lot of work to do to get promoted though.

Also, Kenny Dougall played 90 mins for Telstar in a rare 1-1 draw.

And yes, thankfully, his name is still Kenny Dougall.

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Edited by playmaker11: 20/12/2014 10:11:33 AM

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Article written by Thomas Bosman 23rd November 2014, Source Kuip Talk

Feijenoord gets the midfielder from Southampton definitive to Rotterdam

Feijenoord seems to be strengthen in a short-term with George Mells. The 17 years old midfielder from Southampton is for some while on trial in Rotterdam and makes such an impression that the club would like to keep him definitely. That has been told by Kuip Talk last Saturday.

Mells is an Australian-Greek midfielder from the new club of old- Feijenoorder Ronald Koeman and played before in the youth of Chelsea. The youth-international of Greece is already on trial at the Feijenoord Academy at (the group) A2 and will also play the matches for the time being.

Mells started the season in the group under 18 (years old) at the Southampton club of Koeman and Graziano I Pellè. Last called couple are doing great in the Premier League after their departure at Feijenoord. The Saints occupy the 2nd spot in the competition, while Pellè already 6 times scored in 11 matches in the Premier League.

Speaking to his brother a decision will be made after careful thought upon meeting people in Melbourne, we have always planned what George did as a youngester, Coerver, Futsal, and so on.

Hmmm sounds like feyenoord are looking at him as a first team player

That article says A2 whixh is 17&18 year olds but their second string team. So a ways off of the starting XI haha.

Wonder if Wilkshire will get into his ear and tell him Ange is a prick. Certainly hope not.

I'll be fucked if I'd look at Wilkshire as any role model. If our youngsters aim that high we're doomed

Games tonight:
20:45WST / 23:45EST   Manchester City - Crystal Palace (Jedinak big game) link
21:00WST / 00:00EST   Al Arabi - Al Gharafa (Bresh) ALKASS
22:30WST / 01:30EST   Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Eintracht Frankfurt (Kruse) link
22:30WST / 01:30EST   Werder Bremen - Borussia Dortmund (Langerak last game to show his warez) link
23:00WST / 02:00EST   Fulham FC - Sheffield Wednesday (Burgess, Taggart)
23:00WST / 02:00EST   Ipswich Town - Middlesbrough (Rhys Williams) link
23:00WST / 02:00EST   Reading FC - Watford FC (Fedirici, Ryan Edwards)
23:00WST / 02:00EST   Aston Villa - Manchester United (Herd may get used) link
23:00WST / 02:00EST   Queens Park Rangers - West Bromwich Albion (Davidson) link
23:00WST / 02:00EST   Southampton FC - Everton FC (Gethin Jones unlikely) link
23:30WST / 02:30EST   Al Nasr - Al Wehda (Holman) dubai sports
01:30WST / 04:30EST   Cambuur - PEC Zwolle (Sainsbury)
03:30WST / 06:30EST   Excelsior de Mouscron - SV Zulte Waregem (Troisi)
03:45WST / 06:45EST   AZ Alkmaar - Utrecht (Oar)

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Pretty much, a lot their youth go from there, if he does well he will move up the chain.

But Feyenoord is a great club for developing players. So good choice.

It will be tough but he needs to make the most of this chance. As a foreigner he needs to prove himself even more.

Edited by Barca4life: 20/12/2014 03:44:41 PM

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