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The irony that Angel Gomes potentially trades Manchester United for Chelsea is that he would be leaving a club famous for giving young people a chance for one that usually doesn’t give them a chance.
Chelsea monopolized the FA Youth Cup until they met Mason Greenwood last year, but their youth team to first team conversion rate has been terrible. Mason Mount, Tammy Abraham, Fikayo Tomori, Reece James and Billy Gilmour, although they are good players, have to thank FIFA for being as quick on the first team team as Frank Lampard.
If the world governing body had not respected Chelsea’s transfer ban, Lampard would not have entrusted so many young people so quickly and the radical change is already seeing changes. Chelsea submitted a loan offer for Edinson Cavani, 33, at the January transfer window with Abraham in the midst of a drought.
Tomori started once in the Premier League this calendar year and lasted 54 minutes with Chelsea behind Bournemouth 2-1 and while Mount is in the Premier League he had an early promotion internationally, as evidenced by defeat in the Czech Republic. Gilmour, the youngest, is the most moving prospect, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who is already 24, and Callum Hudson-Odoi have been hampered by injury.
Ed Woodward warned that the next transfer window may be unrecognizable from previous editions, and the coronavirus crisis has emboldened Gomes and his representatives. Chelsea has tackled the issue of salary deferrals and cuts with his players and 19-year-old Gomes would demand a mere compensation fee.
Chelsea has agreed to a deal for Hakim Ziyech, the Ajax winger, to make up for the likely departures of Willian and Pedro, both without a contract next month. There is no obvious path to regular football for Gomes when there is an existing attack from Ziyech, Abraham, Mount, Christian Pulisic and Callum Hudson-Odoi.
There is also no United, who could start two three separate forwards without Gomes. The MEN reported that their camp was “pessimistic” about a renovation as early as September and that United’s interest in Jack Grealish, Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham, a 16-year-old midfielder who has already played an advanced role for Birmingham, has discouraged the creator of games Gomes.
There is no final deadline for Gomes before June 30. Juan Mata and Marouane Fellaini received their ‘final’ contract offers from United in May, but they sweat and came in late June, they received the desired terms.
Tahith Chong’s renewal has left Gomes as the black sheep of the United Academy flock. Greenwood, Brandon Williams, James Garner, Ethan Laird, Dylan Levitt and Chong have both debuted and committed to the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer watch and half have outpaced Gomes in their development.
They tell a story at United that Williams is almost always the last member of the class to be kept and has started more times than the captivating Greenwood.
“There’s one that I didn’t expect to get there, yes,” academy principal Nick Cox told MEN. “And very often, superstars will get there, but for every superstar there is a stable Eddie that no one expected, who showed resistance, who showed courage, who stayed there, who found a way, who found extra resolution that no one else might find.
“And at the right time they come into the limelight, they seize the opportunity, and they do some things that no one anticipated. I would suggest that Brandon Williams was that kind of player. He’s taken that course.”
As long as the season is restarted, Greenwood could beat Cristiano Ronaldo’s third season count in his first full season. The 18-year-old got off to a competitive start for his name on the preseason tour, leaving representatives of United’s business partners as giddy as the skyscrapers of Singapore. Jose Mourinho laid the groundwork by naming Gomes, Garner, Greenwood, and Chong to the 2018 preseason tour team.
In one September, Greenwood scored two in two starts, Williams appeared for the first time in his career, and Axel Tuanzebe was named captain in a stellar month for the academy. Gomes was vibrant for an hour against Astana in his full debut and only last week the club’s Twitter account held his showboating since that night.
Garner had to recover after an injury at Christmas, but was trusted by Solskjaer in the Belgrade bear pit against Partizan and received praise from his manager again in Astana, where six academy graduates debuted. Garner and Levitt are on loan next season and the latter has a better chance of representing Wales at next year’s European Championship.
A first FA Youth Cup semifinal in eight years (against Chelsea, should he go ahead) and the blows by Hannibal Mejbri of Monaco and Marc Jurado of Barcelona give the United academy a matchless brilliance in a season that a Wythenshawe-born talent could collect the statue of Player of the Year Sir Matt Busby. Lancastrian Scott McTominay would have rivaled Marcus Rashford if not for injury.
Chelsea would technically be a homecoming for the London-born Gomes, though he is raised in Salford and is proud enough of him to beat up Williams who beats Harpurhey. United welcomed Gomes to Carrington when he was just six and hip-high against Cristiano Ronaldo, but the memories are not an incentive to re-sign and Chelsea is gradually retiring the old guard, with Olivier Giroud apparently surplus.
However, next year, Juan Mata and Alexis Sánchez could have left United behind them and if Gomes renewed his contract, he would be sure of a loan next season, and with regular playing time before the jump to the first team. .
“I still have high hopes for him,” Nicky Butt told MEN in February. “He has a contractual dispute at the moment that all the players have, and I don’t get involved in that. That’s what he does with his agent and the club. That’s personal.”
“The kid trains every day and works hard and his talent is amazing. His work ethic, the way he approaches training every day and the way he approaches games, whether he’s playing for the reserve team The U19s, the first … team, he’s perfect and he’s a very talented boy. ” United have given him opportunities.
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