Alfie May

[dickos1]

Ian wright, Danny schofield, Antonio, Troy deeney, Jarrod Bowen, Glenn Murray, Callum Wilson, Danny ings, che Adam’s, Ashley Barnes
All players off top of my head that started in non league.

[pib]

Yay! Another thread where we get to have an identical debate to before about Alfie May.

[selby]

  Hound get the book Galvanised about Tony and Chris his brother who understudied Bremner at Leeds, I played with him great lad and a brilliant footballer.
  Leeds had a number of talented players who are virtually unknown who backed up the first team at the time and were good players in their own right and could have had better careers elsewhere.

[ForsolongaRover]

I’ll risk a fresh angle pib.

Before looking closer into this, I took a simplistic view of a player starting in non-league because it’s his local team. And I was thinking of the South East is where both Alfie and Max Watters came from. And we know how few league teams there are outside London in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Only Gillingham, Brighton and more recently Crawley, but then none till Portsmouth and Southampton in Hampshire.

So, I thought if you were keen to play, how far would you want to travel for training and matches whilst working or studying full-time?

However of the names quoted by Dickos and in pursuit of the above as a possible theory, I looked up their bios and only Glenn Murray (who emerged as a player in Cumbria when Carlisle were in the Conference), Danny Schofield and Max Watters had no previous connections with a FL club. I even looked at George Boyd, another Ferguson discovery, and he too had had trials with a FL club. Interestingly both Bowen and Alfie were rejected by FL clubs for being too small. Research into lower league players might well yield names, but a lesser name, as an example close to home from non league, would be Charlie Seaman who I discovered had history with both West Ham and Bournemouth!

So you are left with the fact that emerges most significantly which is that the scouting networks that exist nowadays are so geographically saturated that it seems unlikely that any player who becomes nationally known is unlikely not to have had a previous connection with a FL club. And with ever-increasing in financial resources, so many are hoovered up by PL teams.

Since size is a factor common to both Alfie and Bowen, clubs looking for non-league talent, as well as seeking late-developers, should perhaps be focusing most on players who are less than say 5 feet 10 tall! Mo Salah is 5-9 and Messi 5-7!

[ncRover]

Charlton have placed a bid. Derby interested too so hopefully a bidding war and we get a nice % ££

[swain_drfc]

Yay! Another thread where we get to have an identical debate to before about Alfie May.

I only asked if anyone had a clue about the sell on fee that we will receive? Didn’t ask for this debate haha.

[Colemans Left Hook]

  Goole, Tony Book was one of many defenders and mid fielders who in my time have moved from non league to EFL  after being over looked as younger players.
  Brian Stein, Jamie Vardy, and Gary Birtles are some of the very few strikers I have known come through and done well from non league to top flight football, and their careers are spread over about 50 years.

I played with Tony Galvin, Goole Town when in the NPL and he went straight from there into the Spurs team and even played for The Republic of Ireland.

That should have galvinised your career instead it went down a szinc hole 


(only joking !)

[Donnywolf]

  Goole, Tony Book was one of many defenders and mid fielders who in my time have moved from non league to EFL  after being over looked as younger players.
  Brian Stein, Jamie Vardy, and Gary Birtles are some of the very few strikers I have known come through and done well from non league to top flight football, and their careers are spread over about 50 years.

I played with Tony Galvin, Goole Town when in the NPL and he went straight from there into the Spurs team and even played for The Republic of Ireland.

Fluent in Russian as well , so very clever boy

[Bessie Red]

Ian wright, Danny schofield, Antonio, Troy deeney, Jarrod Bowen, Glenn Murray, Callum Wilson, Danny ings, che Adam’s, Ashley Barnes
All players off top of my head that started in non league.

Jamie Vardy!

[Bentley Bullet]

Ian Wright

[dickos1]

Ian wright, Danny schofield, Antonio, Troy deeney, Jarrod Bowen, Glenn Murray, Callum Wilson, Danny ings, che Adam’s, Ashley Barnes
All players off top of my head that started in non league.

Jamie Vardy!

Yes, I just meant in addition to the ones Selby mentioned. He mentioned vardy

[dickos1]

Ian Wright

Said him

[Bentley Bullet]

Ian Wright

Said him

So you did, apologies.

[Colemans Left Hook]

it took me a couple of tyring days to remember the name of that bloke that played for Poole Town -- so i will make you lot suffer trying to guess who he was

[DonnyOsmond]

it took me a couple of tyring days to remember the name of that bloke that played for Poole Town -- so i will make you lot suffer trying to guess who he was

Charlie Austin.

[Colemans Left Hook]

well done that man i did give you a slight clue ...  (note for Scawsby) tyred = Austin car  he banged quite a few in for Swindon this season after he signed did he get 4 in one match

still only 33 which surprises me

[graingrover]

Charlton and Derby in for Alfie .

[Campsall rover]

Charlton and Derby in for Alfie .

Quite surprised about Derby. Not a Paul Warne type player is he.
Charlton takes him back to near where he is from.

Derby look to have better prospects though. Charlton are not financially sound, having said that not sure Derby are either. 

[Wiltshire Exile]

Anyone got any idea what sell on percentage we receive for any deal for Alfie May? Looks to be on the move this summer.

According to the Cheltenham Town forum we could be due 25% of any transfer fee that the Robins receive. Mind you, where that figure comes I haven’t a clue!

See this post on the forum: http://www.robinsnestforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=31165

[Wokingviking]

  Hound get the book Galvanised about Tony and Chris his brother who understudied Bremner at Leeds, I played with him great lad and a brilliant footballer.
  Leeds had a number of talented players who are virtually unknown who backed up the first team at the time and were good players in their own right and could have had better careers elsewhere.

And brother of our Kim Book (our GK when I started, famous for being on the receiving end of Bestie’s double hat-trick).

Oops thought we were still on Tony Book… played at Bath City til he was 29 then went to Man City.

[Guernsey Exile]

Huddersfield have had a £750k bid accepted for him

[Alan Southstand]

We could be playing against him this coming season, then!

[roversdude]

Anyone got any idea what sell on percentage we receive for any deal for Alfie May? Looks to be on the move this summer.

According to the Cheltenham Town forum we could be due 25% of any transfer fee that the Robins receive. Mind you, where that figure comes I haven’t a clue!

See this post on the forum: http://www.robinsnestforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=31165

Surely we got our money from the Charlton move

[DonnyOsmond]

Anyone got any idea what sell on percentage we receive for any deal for Alfie May? Looks to be on the move this summer.

According to the Cheltenham Town forum we could be due 25% of any transfer fee that the Robins receive. Mind you, where that figure comes I haven’t a clue!

See this post on the forum: http://www.robinsnestforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=31165

Surely we got our money from the Charlton move

Yes but it carries on if they get more money from his move to Charlton which they will be doing from a sell on clause. So if we get 25% of 25% of £750,000 we'll get just under £50,000 but it depends if those percentages are right.

[roversdude]

Thanks DO didn’t realise it carried on

[Chris Black come back]

Think he’s off to Birmingham City.

[GazLaz]

Think he’s off to Birmingham City.

Deserves a decent move to earn a few quid. Hopefully this pay day gets him out of Bircotes.

[DonnyOsmond]

Think he’s off to Birmingham City.

Deserves a decent move to earn a few quid. Hopefully this pay day gets him out of Bircotes.

Levels up to Tickhill or Bawtry.

[Bentley Bullet]

I've heard Alfie wants to upgrade to Bentley when he retires.

[Filo]

I've heard Alfie wants to upgrade to Bentley when he retires.

The car, not the ghetto