capel & collindridge
Well-Known Member
I agree that a highlights reel showing no more than four or five goals taken several times from different angles provides little evidence of player's real worth when he's still aged 18.
Yet, there may be another way of projecting a Dinanga's progress into the future...
Suppose there was another footballer called Dinanga, five years his senior, and now under contract at League 2 Stevenage. Would that 23 years old Dinanga's stats be a guide to what his younger brother's stats might be in five years time? Provided of course that Marcus Dinanga was related to Ricardo, which he may not be!
Anyway, for what it's worth, Marcus Dinanga has scored 54 goals in 149 games playing games for teams in tier 7 (aged 18) tiers 6 and 5 (aged 19 to 21) and currently aged 23 he is playing at tier 4.
Unfortunately, he's only scored 1 goal in 26 appearances in tiers 4 and 5.
And for all I know Ricardo may be totally unrelated to Marcus! The possible link suggesting Ricardo is Marcus's kid brother is that Marcus is a product of the Burton Albion academy and may well have been there when Allen and McFadzean were playing for Burton. Not to mention that his first loan spell was at Mickleover Sports, otherwise known as one of CCFC's Academy feeder teams.
If Ricardo impresses on trial here, perhaps he could skip the loan spells at Mickleover, Matlock and Telford United and end up in our U23s within a season or two.
Yet, there may be another way of projecting a Dinanga's progress into the future...
Suppose there was another footballer called Dinanga, five years his senior, and now under contract at League 2 Stevenage. Would that 23 years old Dinanga's stats be a guide to what his younger brother's stats might be in five years time? Provided of course that Marcus Dinanga was related to Ricardo, which he may not be!
Anyway, for what it's worth, Marcus Dinanga has scored 54 goals in 149 games playing games for teams in tier 7 (aged 18) tiers 6 and 5 (aged 19 to 21) and currently aged 23 he is playing at tier 4.
Unfortunately, he's only scored 1 goal in 26 appearances in tiers 4 and 5.
And for all I know Ricardo may be totally unrelated to Marcus! The possible link suggesting Ricardo is Marcus's kid brother is that Marcus is a product of the Burton Albion academy and may well have been there when Allen and McFadzean were playing for Burton. Not to mention that his first loan spell was at Mickleover Sports, otherwise known as one of CCFC's Academy feeder teams.
If Ricardo impresses on trial here, perhaps he could skip the loan spells at Mickleover, Matlock and Telford United and end up in our U23s within a season or two.