Gai Assulin

[Blue Blood]

Really hope he makes the grade at city, if he gets over his injury problems and lives up the promise he has shown in the past we could have netted the bargain signing of the year.

[superkev8705]

He could be the next Yasser Hussein. Remember him???

[Blue Blood]

He could be the next Yasser Hussein. Remember him???

Oh yes clearly, he was the most gifted footballer of the Pearce era, to this day I still have no idea why we let him go..... ;P

[lets all have a disco]

He could be the next Yasser Hussein. Remember him???

Oh yes clearly, he was the most gifted footballer of the Pearce era, to this day I still have no idea why we let him go..... ;P

[superkev8705]

He could be the next Yasser Hussein. Remember him???

Oh yes clearly, he was the most gifted footballer of the Pearce era, to this day I still have no idea why we let him go..... ;P

Haha. Think he only played in the Carling Cup match at Doncaster and that was it. Ali Benarbia recommended him i think. What was never told was that Ali was pissed when he told Pearce that.

[Mike J]

doug have you seen him at training at all?

[Alioune DVToure]

doug have you seen him at training at all?

I asked him a couple of weeks ago and he said no. He doesn't have a squad number on the official website. What the fuck have we signed him as, a chef?

[CitizenYank]

Hope Gai at least gains Glauber Berti status. That man was a pimp!!

[Mike J]

did he play or what!?

[brite blu sky]

i dont know as yet if he played.. but the result was 1-1 City penalty in the second half to level the score.
A lot of subs were used but i cant find any info on who played exactly.

[paddyblue]

from
http://mcfcreservesandacademy.co.uk/ajaxresfr10-11/

European U20 Friendly



Thursday 11th November 2010



Ajax 1 Manchester City 1

Guidetti(P)
On Thursday afternoon the Ajax Reserves drew one all in the friendly match against the Manchester City Reserves. Rain poured down at sports complex The Academy when intern Joshua Mayele scored the goal for Ajax. After half time the English squad drew level through a penalty. The Ajax Reserves played most of the second half with only ten players, after substitute Johan Kappelhof was shown the red card.

Some notable names were on the pitch for Ajax. Besides Evander Sno making his re-entry, the interns, Henri Toivomaki and Joshua Mayele also demonstrated their abilities at The Academy. The Finnish right back and the Nigerian right winger practiced with Ajax last week and made their first appearance in a match in the friendly against the talents from Manchester.



In the tenth minute Mayele scored the opening goal for the Ajax Reserves. That goal was followed on both sides by more opportunities, but 1-0 remained the score until half time. Half an hour into the game the home team got off lightly when Jeremy Helan appeared to have the equaliser on the tip of his shoe. After a poor defence by Ajax the attacker came face to face with keeper Marco Bizot. Luckily for the Ajax Reserves Helan wasn’t alert enough in front of the goal and Bizot managed to prevent one all.

After an hour of play the visitors from England scored the equaliser. According to the referee substitute Johan Kappelhof deliberately caused a handball in the penalty area and so the substitute was shown the red card and had to leave the pitch after only fifteen minutes of playing time. The penalty which was consequently awarded was put to good use by striker John Guidetti: 1-1. The managers Bryan Roy and Albert van der Dussen brought in various substitutes in the remaining course of the match. Keeper Jordy Deckers was also given playing time, but the score remained unaltered.

After the match team manager Roy spoke of ‘a good initiative’ to have international Reserves playing each other. ,,Teams from other countries often have a different concept of play to the teams here in The Netherlands. You could see for instance today that with Manchester City everything is just that little bit more physical. You don’t come across opponents like that very often in Holland. That was a good learning point for us.”



Teams:

Ajax:

Bizot (60. Deckers) Toivomaki, Van der Meulen, Atouba (46. Kappelhof), Burnet, Bonevacia, Overtoom, Sno, Mayele (75. Donald), Suk (75. Bodul) Ebecilio (46. Zeegelaar).



City :

Johansen, Smith, Meppen-Walters, Tutte, Veseli, Wabara, Assulin, Ibrahim, Guidetti, Benali, Helan

Subs; Lawlor(GK), Elabdellaoui, A Mancini, Bunn, Olle, Robinson, Kennedy

[Dameerto]

He's not really here!

[brite blu sky]

Thats the report off the Ajax website.. lazy bastards!

[john@staustell]

[Beeks]

So he did play then...what's all this business about us signing him to a contract yet on Wiki it still says he has no club

[Douglas Higginbottom]

So he did play then...what's all this business about us signing him to a contract yet on Wiki it still says he has no club

I believe he played as a trialist and we haven't officially signed him yet.

[Crossie]

I could edit his Wiki for your and tell you he now plays for El Salvador if u like?

Wikipedia is not fact.

[Wooders]

is "A Mancini" a relative of "R Mancini"?

If so - where is the outrage? People went mad when hughes apparently gave his son a job as a cameraman for training sessions ! (JF)

[Whassat]

is "A Mancini" a relative of "R Mancini"?

If so - where is the outrage? People went mad when hughes apparently gave his son a job as a cameraman for training sessions ! (JF)

Indeed R Mancini's son. Andrea Mancini, the younger brother of Filippo Mancini (who's not longer playing for our youth side). According to wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Mancini

[Dubaimancityfan]

is "A Mancini" a relative of "R Mancini"?

If so -

where is the outrage?

People went mad when hughes apparently gave his son a job as a cameraman for training sessions ! (JF)

Why, is he starting against Fulham ??