In recent seasons, the last few U18s cohorts have shown exactly why the Academy of Football is so renowned for producing such exciting talent. In 2023, the U18s won the FA Youth Cup for the fourth time, beating Arsenal 5-1 in front of 34,000 fans at the Emirates Stadium. This year, the latest group of U18s were crowned Premier League Cup champions with a team Mayers, Fearon and Golambeckis were all a part of.
Noble continued: “We want them to push on, like the boys that have done that in recent times. The likes of Freddie Potts, Calum Marshall, Ollie Scarles and George Earthy.
“The Academy’s job is to keep supplying the first team with players who are ready to go. You look back at myself, then Declan Rice and Ben Johnson, that’s the tradition. We’ve got to keep producing players from within. That’s our job, and that’s what we want to keep doing.”