Greenidge Leaves

[Memphis]

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Port-Vale-Reiss-Greenidge-leaves-Valiants/story-25825918-detail/story.html

 

Fair enough.

 

Good luck to the lad.

[valeparklife]

Shame, I was quite hopefully he'd be the physically dominating centre half I feel we've been lacking for a while.

[Santa]

Norman might want to reflect on some of the signings he made between Adams leaving and Page getting the job permanently.

[robf]

Pity, we'll never get that West Indies cricket inspired Port Vale line-up of Greenidge, Daniel, Marshall and Lloyd now... :(

[bookworm]

We have to trust Page's judgement on these matters, he sees the players in training and it has to be his call.

[smithie]

Pity, we'll never get that West Indies cricket inspired Port Vale line-up of Greenidge, Daniel, Marshall and Lloyd now... :(

 

But we can still Neal before the Pope.

[The French Connection]

Makes sense to me. He should be good enough to be challenging for the first team at 19, and if he isn't he's not a lot of use to us.

[Tenement Funster]

Hasn't done enough and is extremely young for a defender so fair enough. He may have to rebuild his career somewhere a bit lower despite his seemingly massive potential.

[Burslem Academicals]

Highly rated former Arsenal Academy and Premiership WBA defender who is both quick and a giant and who is good on the ball and versatlie playing left back and centre back.......could have been a valuable squad player next season and a real prospect..........reminded of when Adams released the whole development squad......then again Page is building a team around Williamson and Birchall with Dickinson the first name on the team sheet......

Good luck to the lad but better off elsewhere with a decent coaching set up and a chance to progress......far away from the football committee and

inexperienced managers....player development you're having a laugh.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

We have to trust Page's judgement on these matters, he sees the players in training and it has to be his call.

 

Exactly, love how people rate them before they've even seen them! Then again I suppose we could have 1,000 turning up at reserve games week in, week out :)

[cheshirevaliant]

Highly rated former Arsenal Academy and Premiership WBA defender who is both quick and a giant and who is good on the ball and versatlie playing left back and centre back.......could have been a valuable squad player next season and a real prospect..........reminded of when Adams released the whole development squad......then again Page is building a team around Williamson and Birchall with Dickinson the first name on the team sheet......

Good luck to the lad but better off elsewhere with a decent coaching set up and a chance to progress......far away from the football committee and

inexperienced managers....player development you're having a laugh.

 

Could have been, although it's also a possibility that he wasn't good enough for a team looking to progress to the second division. As far as I'm aware, there is only Morsy who has made me think we made a mistake not doing more to keep in the last 10 years.

[valiant_593]

That raglan as well for chesterfield, they say he's quality.

[valiant_stu]

Highly rated former Arsenal Academy and Premiership WBA defender who is both quick and a giant and who is good on the ball and versatlie playing left back and centre back.......could have been a valuable squad player next season and a real prospect..........reminded of when Adams released the whole development squad......then again Page is building a team around Williamson and Birchall with Dickinson the first name on the team sheet......

Good luck to the lad but better off elsewhere with a decent coaching set up and a chance to progress......far away from the football committee and

inexperienced managers....player development you're having a laugh.

 

Just because he was good as a teenager doesn't mean he's going to develop into a good professional footballer (I remember Fulham being interested in Joe Anyon, look how that turned out). No one on this site has seen Greenidge play in a competitive game other than the reserves, and they're hardly an indication of the quality of footballers (Vale 3 - 0 Stoke) springs to mind.

 

If he was that highly rated Arsenal and WBA (especially) wouldn't be letting him go. Page was a good defender and I have confidence in his judgement in that area.

 

Keep the faith

[cheshirevaliant]

That raglan as well for chesterfield, they say he's quality.

 

I haven't seen enough of him as a player to be honest. Hope he has a shocker tomorrow!

[Shropshire_Valiant]

Never saw Greenidge so can't really comment. I think he only made the bench twice? I do agree with Santa on page 1 though, it might be worth reviewing some of these signings what is the point taking players on loan not to at least give them a chance? Is it a cheaper way of doing the development squad perhaps? I don't know! It's a similar thing to the lad from Leicester we had for a month?