Following a summer season transfer to St James’ Park, thrilling Beneath-15 recruit Jayden Kouossu has made a formidable begin to life on Tyneside and appeared as a ball boy in our victory in opposition to Arsenal final weekend.
Though his swap from West Brom was by no means formally introduced by the membership, Kouossu posted a photograph of him on the sidelines throughout final weekend’s 1-0 win over the Gunners.
After doing a little digging on his performances thus far inside our Academy, it’s emerged that the younger midfielder has made a superb begin, weighing in with 4 targets – two braces – and two assists in simply two U15 video games in opposition to Hull and Middlesbrough.
It’s nonetheless very early days for Kouossu, however the 14-year-old was highly-rated on the time of his arrival and seems to have a really brilliant future within the recreation.
Hopefully he can develop his recreation additional within the coming years on Tyneside, with latest recruits Trevan Sanusi and Leo Shahar already transferring from U18 degree to U21s, coaching with the first-team every now and then and representing England at youth degree since they arrived on the membership 18 months in the past.
Newcastle are clearly working very exhausting behind the scenes to search out thrilling younger skills and though followers could also be pissed off with a scarcity of exercise within the first-team, these hidden additions will likely be huge for the way forward for our squad.
The membership have recruited quite a few U16 skills since new homeowners arrived, with Sam Alabi, Michael Mills, Jayden Kouossu, CJ Afumuzor, Kacey Wooster, Les Yeutembip, Leon Mukumbira, Aaron Epia and Sammy Pinnington all arriving after impressing on the home youth scene.