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My mate edits the Oxford Utd online fanzine. Here are his thoughts re Ryan Ledson:
Yes Ryan Ledson is good. But as we all know the step up from L1 to the Championship is a big one. There’s never any guarantee. He was a 100% Oxford United when he was with us and will be a 100% PNE whilst with you. He likes a tackle and is a real battler. Not a bad passer of the ball but not what you’d call overly creative. Not really a goal-scorer either as his record shows.
This shows a Ledson tackle when he was playing for Everton youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=vFdXDrP4yIA
He has calmed down a bit now though but in his strong scouse accent he was heard to say that he would break Liam Sercombe’s ****ing legs when we played Bristol Rovers. (When Sercombe was with us and had been dropped he’d been moaning that he should have been in the team ahead of players like Ledson)
Although he has already clocked up nearly 60 starts for us he’s not 21 until August so still could improve other parts of his game.
There was a strong rumour that he had failed a medical, quite badly, at Preston but as the move has gone ahead I assume it can’t have been too serious. Perhaps the fee is quoted as undisclosed as it is quite dependent on the number of games he plays.
Oxford fans wish him well.
Cheers and good luck for 2018/19
I replied:
He fits in with our managers philosophy. Alex Niel is building a young team but with players who have been playing games in the league and not in some premier league academy. We topped the table in bookings last season as many of the so called bigger clubs dont like a tackle !
His response:🙂
I will watch his progress and card count with interest. He got the most yellows of any Oxford player last season - 11.
Yes Ryan Ledson is good. But as we all know the step up from L1 to the Championship is a big one. There’s never any guarantee. He was a 100% Oxford United when he was with us and will be a 100% PNE whilst with you. He likes a tackle and is a real battler. Not a bad passer of the ball but not what you’d call overly creative. Not really a goal-scorer either as his record shows.
This shows a Ledson tackle when he was playing for Everton youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=vFdXDrP4yIA
He has calmed down a bit now though but in his strong scouse accent he was heard to say that he would break Liam Sercombe’s ****ing legs when we played Bristol Rovers. (When Sercombe was with us and had been dropped he’d been moaning that he should have been in the team ahead of players like Ledson)
Although he has already clocked up nearly 60 starts for us he’s not 21 until August so still could improve other parts of his game.
There was a strong rumour that he had failed a medical, quite badly, at Preston but as the move has gone ahead I assume it can’t have been too serious. Perhaps the fee is quoted as undisclosed as it is quite dependent on the number of games he plays.
Oxford fans wish him well.
Cheers and good luck for 2018/19
I replied:
He fits in with our managers philosophy. Alex Niel is building a young team but with players who have been playing games in the league and not in some premier league academy. We topped the table in bookings last season as many of the so called bigger clubs dont like a tackle !
His response:🙂
I will watch his progress and card count with interest. He got the most yellows of any Oxford player last season - 11.
