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Joshua Murphy
Position: WingerDOB: 24th February 1995
Signed: Academy
Contract: [SIZE=17.77777862548828px]30th June[/SIZE] 2017
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Not in this list from the BBC site? Although Redderz is.Josh Murphy has been called up to the England U21 squad.
Damn, I misread it.
Well he should be due a call up to the Under 21's, after his goals this season.
They call up players who have yet to kick a ball for their clubs, 19 year old Lewis Baker at Chelsea gets a call up to the U21's despite playing just one professional game. Shows that the big club bias starts in the age groups!
Josh and Jacob are good players in their own right, but I think they're better together as a package. Josh is a bit of a bit part player with us at the moment and I wonder if it might be better value to loan him to Blackpool as well and see how the pair of them do as a unit in the Championship. Jacob doesn't seem to have trouble getting game time there and I suspect Josh would be no different.They could go out on loan to prove their worth?
I still think its odd to pick players for the Under 21's who have yet to even play a competitive league game at any senior level. We should at least wait until they have gone out on loan and done the business in League One or above? If he is 19 then what's the rush, he could get recognition and reward once he's played a few games. Doesn't this fuel the sense of entitlement that young players have, and doesn't it devalue the U21's if you can get a cap without having to really earn it?
We don't pick players for the senior team if they aren't getting football, e.g. Micah Richards and Joleon Lescott.
He has even been picked above Josh McEachran, the Chelsea player who is on loan at (and playing for) Vitesse Arnham.
I can remember when Cherno Samba was the next Alan Shearer :lol:
Oh yeah and Jimmy Smith, the next Frank Lampard h34r: