Derby County’s Jayden Bogle has broken into the first team.
Derby County coach Chris Jones has told the club’s official website how they are looking to integrate more academy players into the first-team set-up and reserves special praise for Jayden Bogle.
“We look for players with enthusiasm and quality and the ones mentioned (Max Lowe, Max Bird and Jayden Bogle) have a lot of that and we look to integrate them as much as possible,” Jones told dcfc.co.uk.
“It’s been brilliant see Bogle and how well he has done in the games. He had a small injury in the game [against Preston] but he was doing brilliantly before he went off. He’s been a real highlight for us.”
Derby last season fielded one of the oldest first-team XIs in the Championship, and that’s an area new manager Frank Lampard has looked to eradicate since taking over the reins at Pride Park.
Players such as Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori, George Evans, Jack Marriott and Duane Holmes have all arrived to help on that front, but Lampard hasn’t been afraid to also bring through academy players.
Left-back Max Lowe started the first two games of the campaign before joining Aberdeen on loan, while 18-year-old Bogle has replaced Andre Wisdom as the club’s number one right-back.
Bogle made his senior debut for the Rams in the 2-0 EFL cup victory at Oldham, and he has since gone on to make three Championship appearances where he has thoroughly impressed.
The former Swindon Town youth player likes to get forward as much as possible, and so far, he has formed an exciting partnership with fellow academy graduate Mason Bennett down that right side.
Not many supporters were aware of his talents prior to his introduction to the first-team, therefore for many he is considered like a new signing and one with huge potential to reach the very top.
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