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title: "Crystal Palace: Fans love footage of Jay Rich Baghuelou"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/crystal-palace-fans-love-footage-of-jay-rich-baghuelou/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Luke Seychell"
section: "Crystal Palace"
published: "2020-04-20T19:50:31Z"
modified: "2020-04-20T19:50:31Z"
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# Crystal Palace: Fans love footage of Jay Rich Baghuelou

**Crystal Palace U23 player Jay Rich Baghuelou has posted [footage](https://twitter.com/jaybaghuelou/status/1251973920418381824?s=20) of his performances so far for the side and a lot of the fanbase feel like the club have a really good player on their hands.**

The 20-year-old used to play for non-league side Welling United (via [Crystal Palace](https://www.cpfc.co.uk/teams/u23-team/player2/jay-rich-baghuelou/)), however Palace scouts were impressed and gave him a trial at the Eagles. Clearly he impressed as he joined their Academy in January 2020 and has been playing for the U23’s ever since. He has made eleven appearances so far and the video he posted shows the Australian’s highlights in this campaign.

The player could start to become a vital player if manager Roy Hodgson is impressed by him as the South London side’s squad was noted to be on average the second oldest in the Premier League at the start if this season, per [101greatgoals](https://www.101greatgoals.com/news/average-age-of-premier-league-squads-arsenal-youngest-liverpool-oldest-of-top-6/).

Palace’s defence is one of the main reasons that the average age of the squad is quite old, with current centre-back pairing Scott Dann and Gary Cahill 33 and 34 respectively, via [Transfermarkt](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/crystal-palace/startseite/verein/873), whilst Mamadou Sakho and James Tomkins are 30, so Baghuelou could have the perfect opportunity to play in England’s top flight soon if he performs well in the academy.

Here is what fans had to say about the player – one described him as ‘[class](https://twitter.com/wayneoG/status/1251982174108241921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)‘:

https://twitter.com/jaybaghuelou/status/1251973920418381824?s=20

> Class my bro ❤️💎👊🏼 [https://t.co/TJh00Qfo4B](https://t.co/TJh00Qfo4B)
>
> — Mahrez Bettache (@MazB10) [April 20, 2020](https://twitter.com/MazB10/status/1252209389693546496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> 🙌❤
>
> — Louise R (@bondichickoz) [April 19, 2020](https://twitter.com/bondichickoz/status/1251985216194752512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Virgil Van Baghuelou [https://t.co/bsYaAJYyXs](https://t.co/bsYaAJYyXs)
>
> — josh (@JoshuaCPFC) [April 20, 2020](https://twitter.com/JoshuaCPFC/status/1252184098644406272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> Looking like a player, hopefully gets some first team minutes fairly soon [https://t.co/qkEm64uu9E](https://t.co/qkEm64uu9E)
>
> — haz 🦅 (@hazvaughan) [April 20, 2020](https://twitter.com/hazvaughan/status/1252174727797489665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> This guy looks sick, maybe January wasn’t a total misfire after all with Scott Banks looking good too [#CPFC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/7xsZFNaNA9](https://t.co/7xsZFNaNA9)
>
> — Liam© (@liamb0117) [April 20, 2020](https://twitter.com/liamb0117/status/1252166813049393152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> [@jaybaghuelou](https://twitter.com/jaybaghuelou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) breaking into 1st team next season……🔴🔵🦅 [https://t.co/LLhlS4wprC](https://t.co/LLhlS4wprC)
>
> — John Ng (@Jonno55Ng) [April 20, 2020](https://twitter.com/Jonno55Ng/status/1252120840520577026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> This bloke is class 💯\
> 🔴🔵🦅 [https://t.co/JNglJzb6xo](https://t.co/JNglJzb6xo)
>
> — Wayne (@wayneoG) [April 19, 2020](https://twitter.com/wayneoG/status/1251982174108241921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***Palace fans, do you think Baghuelou could break into the first team next season? Comment below!***