Yven Moyo signs four-year deal at Newcastle.
Posted on September 28th, 2010 | 153 Comments |
Moyo has been on trial with Newcastle and featured on the bench for the reserves during their 2-1 win over Wolves last night.
Rumours surfaced earlier today that Moyo had indeed signed for us although personally I’m not one to jump the gun so I waited until it was on the official club website before annoncing it on here.
The 18-year old former Sochaux player becomes the latest addition a fledgling youth academy at St James’ Park that already boasts an array of talent. Much of the focus has been on the exploits of the first-team, and understandably so, but I for one am very happy that the club are still making moves to ensure NUFC has a bright future ahead.
Moyo is a left-sided midfielder who was attracting the interest of Manchester United not so long back and has also represented his country at under-18 level. He is described as being skillful and pacey and appears to be rather highly rated in his native France.
Chris Hughton has said that we can expect to see more young players on trial at Newcastle throughout the course of the season as the club run the rule over the next batch of youngsters. Moyo has obviously impressed Steve Stone and Peter Beardsley enough to warrant being offered a deal, unlike other trialists such as Billy Knott and Nassim Bhoukhelifa. I’m glad we didn’t sign the latter as his surname is a bit of a nightmare for me to spell!
All in all, another player is through the door and into our academy where hopefully he can emerge into the first-team given enough time. Bringing through our own youth players gives me a much better buzz than going out and buying the finished article, with a finished article price-tag to to boot.
Having said that though, these youth players will take some time to show whether or not they are good enough, so they shouldn’t be the only focus for the club. It’s the first-team that bring in the money to pay the bills, and that will need strengthening until these young lads can prove they are good enough to step up.
It’s official – Moyo is a Magpie!
Its a shame we were stringing Billy along like that, Although if he was a bit ropey better Knott to tie up a deal and let him hitch to a club who can harness his talent…