Louis Web page named as prime Leicester prospect by The Guardian


The Guardian has recognized Leicester Metropolis academy midfielder Louis Web page as the highest prospect on the membership.

Every season, The Guardian releases an inventory referred to as the ‘Subsequent Technology’, consisting of among the prime children enjoying for Premier League golf equipment. For every crew, Guardian picks out the most effective participant born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008.

Sixteen-year-old Louis Web page, who has been at Leicester for the reason that age of 9, was chosen because the membership’s prime prospect. The midfielder is the son of Don Web page, a ahead who represented Rotherham United and Wigan Athletic within the late Eighties and early 90s. Regardless of being 16, Web page lately debuted for the Leicester under-21s of their victory over Hull Metropolis. The midfielder had a great recreation and didn’t look misplaced.

Louis Web page is a technically gifted box-to-box midfielder

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The Guardian described him as a technically ‘gifted’ box-to-box midfielder: “Web page is a box-to-box midfielder who likes to run with the ball and penetrate the opposition field.”

“Technically, he’s a gifted participant, able to manipulating and maintaining the ball in tight areas. Bodily, the sense is there’s nonetheless extra to come back however Web page has cemented a spot in Leicester’s Underneath-18s, for whom he shone towards West Ham, and is anticipated to push for normal recreation time within the under-21s.”

The Foxes have had a couple of gifted academy graduates lately. Ben Chilwell, Harvey Barnes, and Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor had good spells with Leicester earlier than shifting to greater groups. Hamza Choudhury and Luke Thomas are nonetheless on the membership, and the likes of Sammy Braybrooke, Ben Nelson, and Will Alves could possibly be future stars for the Foxes.

The Leicester youth groups are doing moderately effectively of their respective competitions. The under-21 crew sit ninth out of 26 groups within the Premier League 2, whereas the under-18 groups are sixth within the Premier League U18 South Division (there are 13 groups).


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