GETHIN EXILE wrote:Odogwu another under 20 who thinks he is ready for first team action !!! why can't young players accept that they still have a lot to learn and need to develop their game? if at his age I'd have been anywhere near any sort of professional contract I would have been happy to be involved however little. These young players who want too much too soon are becoming too common.
Perhaps he is ready - possibly not at the top league level but are they (players like Odogwu)going to develop their game on the training ground at Tigers better than they can at another club and also benefit from first team play?
We don't have a great track record in recent years of getting our backs into the first team at an early age and 2 years on the Tigers training ground won't be something that furthers his England career nor his bank balance. Having a relative who was a Tigers player may make a difference.
Top level sport is about fighting your way to the top and earning your living if doing it professionally.
Ambitions players will inevitably see their path obstructed by senior players and may decide that the way forward is to leave where they will get more game time rather than wait until those senior players retire or get injured.
Wings are at their best in their early 20s so I say good luck to him. If he is genuinely as good as he and the other club thinks he could be in the England side come 2019.
If not he will fade into the list of bright prospects who never made it.