[Football] Derby v Albion U23, 12.00 ko today ****Official match thread****

[hampshirebrightonboy]

I've just watched the goals and saw the brilliant effort by Yapi to keep the ball in play in the corner, then bring it into the box for our first goal.

He must be well peeved that we signed Lamptey apparently ahead of him.

But Yapi isn’t our player is he? Thought he is here in loan from PSG

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Someone made this comment the other day, that Yapi couldn't have been too pleased that Lamptey was signed "ahead of him", as though Yapi was imminently about to be called in to the first team for Premier League matches.

I don't get it?

Yapi started the season as very much second fiddle to Archie Davies in the U-23s (Yapi only started 3 of their first 13 matches). It was only when Davies got injured that Yapi got a regular starting birth. Davies started for the "first team" against Villa in the Carabao Cup, with Yapi coming off the bench.

Since Davies has regained fitness he has started every match for the U-23s at right-back (Yapi has been slotted in as a right-midfielder).And yet no-one is posting about Archie Davies having his nose put out of joint by the signing of Lamptey.

In my mind, Lamptey has CLEARLY been signed as an immediate member of the first team squad, will probably be the regular starting right-back for the first team by the end of the season, and is MILES ahead of both Archie Davies and Romaric Yapi. And all the evidence points to Davies being the starting U-23 right-back ahead of Yapi, who is being utilised in midfield.

Are Albion fans biased against Davies because he was signed from Ratton Rangers rather than PSG?

Nail and head.....




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[schmunk]

But Yapi isn’t our player is he? Thought he is here in loan from PSG

He transferred from PSG, not a loan.

 

[albionfan37]

He transferred from PSG, not a loan.

But it was only a one year contract I believe and I don’t recall him signing an extension?

 

[AZ Gull]

But it was only a one year contract I believe and I don’t recall him signing an extension?

The club has a further one-year option.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Has Cox’s time passed us by? He’s playing every week in Holland and doing well by all accounts. Must have a chance of coming back and competing for a place at left back. I wouldn’t say Burn or Bernardo have made that position their own yet and obviously Bong has gone now.

I would love that. Feels like he has been farmed out to me, but I do not know the masterplan.

 

[AZ Gull]

Has Cox’s time passed us by? He’s playing every week in Holland and doing well by all accounts. Must have a chance of coming back and competing for a place at left back. I wouldn’t say Burn or Bernardo have made that position their own yet and obviously Bong has gone now.

I would love that. Feels like he has been farmed out to me, but I do not know the masterplan.

The club themselves told us that he was joining Fortuna Sittard on loan "..with a view to a permanent transfer."

His contract expires this summer, he might well have already inked a contract with the Dutch club (I believe players out of contract can sign for a foreign club six months before the end of their deal). Can't imagine we'll be seeing him back here at all.