Luke Summerfield
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| Luke Summerfield | ||
| nickname = Summers | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | December 6, 1987 | |
| Place of birth | Ivybridge, England | |
| Playing position | Midfielder | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Plymouth Argyle | |
| Number | 20 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2005-present 2007 |
Plymouth Argyle → AFC Bournemouth (loan) |
28 (1) 8 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Luke Summerfield (born 6 December 1987 in Ivybridge, England) is an English footballer who plays for Plymouth Argyle, and is contracted until June 2009. He is the son of former Plymouth Argyle player and assistant manager Kevin Summerfield.
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[edit] Biography
Summerfield signed a professional contract before the start of the 2005/06 season. He made two appearances in his first two seasons for Argyle (both as a substitute), once in the league and once in the League Cup.
On his first start for Plymouth Argyle, against Colchester United in the Football League Championship on 8 August, 2006 during the 2006/2007 campaign, scored with a 25 yard bullet after 29 minutes.
Although son of former West Brom, Birmingham City, Plymouth Argyle and England youth international player Kevin Summerfield, many Argyle fans cite Luke Summerfield's playing style as more like Steve McCall than father Kevin. This owes largely to Summerfield's extremely accurate and broad range of passing, and tendency to dominate matches from centre midfield by linking up play, as opposed to the long and erratic dribbling of fellow Plymouth Argyle midfielders Akos Buzsaky, Bojan Djordjic and David Norris.
At the early stage of his career, he has already been touted for an England U-19 call, and it is widely held that Summerfield is being tracked by a host of Premiership clubs, a notion further enhanced after spending a week on trial with Premiership champions Chelsea with teammate Dan Gosling in March 2007. In November 2006, journalist Tony Rees placed Summerfield in the Football League's '7 Deadly Winners' article, citing him as a "rookie with a fine touch, and a Premiership look", with a price valuation of £1.5m, in a list which included Plymouth Argyle teammate Luke McCormick who was valued at £2m. .[1]. In January 2007, Summerfield was listed as number 5 in The Guardian's ten best prospects to watch out for in 2007, an article researched and compiled by James Dart, Tom Lutz and Paolo Bandini.[2].
At Plymouth Argyle, he is seen as the cornerstone of a number of exciting prospects emerging from Argyle's youth system and transfer policy, alongside £300,000 former Manchester United starlet Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (20), former Millwall and Cádiz whizzkid Cherno Samba (20), Scotland U-19 youth team captain Scott Laird (18), brother and Scotland U-17 youth international Jamie Laird (17), Republic of Ireland U-17 youth internationals Anthony Mason, Damien McCrory and Karl Byrne (17, 16 and 16), as well as English compatriot teenage sensations Dan Gosling (17), Reuben Reid (18) and Paul Kendall (17).
Former Plymouth Argyle manager Ian Holloway has commented on Summerfield, "I see Luke doing things far beyond his tender years. The boy has a fine touch, he is typical of the talent that Plymouth will produce for the future."[citation needed]
On the 20th March 2007 he signed a loan deal with Football League One side AFC Bournemouth until the end of the season.
[edit] Career statistics
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Total | ||||
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Plymouth Argyle | 2004-05 | 0 (1) | — | — | — | — | — | 0 (1) | — |
| 2005-06 | — | — | — | — | 0 (1) | — | 0 (1) | — | |
| 2006-07 | 11 (12) | 1 | 0 (3) | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2007–08 | In progress | ||||||||
| Total | 11 (13) | 1 | 0 (3) | — | 0 (1) | — | 11 (17) | 1 | |
| Bournemouth (On Loan) |
2006-07 | 5 (3) | 1 | — | — | — | — | 5 (3) | 1 |
| Total | 5 (3) | 1 | — | — | — | — | 5 (3) | 1 | |
| Career Total | 16 (16) | 2 | 0 (3) | — | 0 (1) | — | 16 (20) | 2 | |
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