Nathaniel Chalobah

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It's the new reality though, and that's a good thing. Teams can't buy success anymore hopefully.

We have a fantastic academy and once we have stability in the first team then we can start to introduce young players. We should've included the likes of Chalobah and Lukaku this season though, in my opinion.

I agree I loves when we gives our youth a chance but it is difficult to develop youngster and compete for trophy at the same time.

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we seem to be the only club afraid of blooding even one young player into our squad,,, perhaps city are similar now ,, but the rest DO give youth a chance even Manure

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Both he and Omeru start for Boro today.

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Game is live today..of course the only Middlesborough game live is also the same time as our Chelsea match pretty much. May record it

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Onto the Chelsea match now. But Chalobah played pretty well from what I saw, suits Middlesborough's possession based game

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A quality performance today, a class above every other player on the pitch and back to what he was doing for Watford hopefully. He's got a fantastic touch, he seems to get around the pitch a lot faster and consistently, he shows a desire to make runs and win the ball back and he nearly got the winning assist at the end with a fantastic ball through that some chap managed to sky.

Keep it up and maybe he'll earn himself a loan to Brighton next season (hopefully not, he's better than Mikel already in my opinion).

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Nat did well, wouldn't say quality but he did enough to sniff out a very poor Leeds team. Lost a few battles of strength but that is to be expected the kid is very young. I waited outside the ground and funnily enough he was one of the ones who came over when I showed my shirt, and he gave me a big high five and a bit of a man hug. He showed mass delight when I held up my shirt as I think he was heading straight into the ground.

I got two signatures, one from him (At the bottom) and Aitor Karanka at the top.

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Watched the first 30 mins and 15 of the second half and indeed he did look like one of the best players on the pitch. Looking much more like the player we saw at Watford.

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Just watched the whole match now - I thought he had a very good game, reminded me of his Watford days. Made tackles, interceptions, blocks, and initiates attacks with his quick, first touch passing in a simialr way to Matic does. Created a chance right at the end with a lovely reverse pass for Adomah which he really should have scored. Starting to show his real ability again.

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Adomah should of been on from the start, he was great in amongst a load of shite.

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http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/9178086/weekend-warm-up--nathaniel-chalobah?

Sky Sports posted this interview with Chalobah as well yesterday

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Started again, apparently had a shot that hit both posts before getting cleared..he does have a relatively good goal record for a young DM/CM.

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Turns out Chalobah started for the U21s tonight, playing at CB. Original starting XIs had him on the bench.

Just went 1-0 up with a Redmond goal

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Yeah, I watched the first 22 mins but then quit because I nearly fell asleep. Boring, boring game. But Nathanial looked pretty solid at the back. Blocked a couple of shots. Hope Bamford gets some minutes in the second half.

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Won't make it here. Hopefully he goes on to have a decent career for himself like Jack Cork did.

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The second half was better, England creating more chances. But Chalobah's just been forced off with injury, doesn't look serious, he walked off. Probably precautionary

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Won't make it here.

Think he's got a great chance based on his skill, physical strength (seems to have a bit more later on in games this season) and his attitude.