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Winks played about 3x the number of minutes than Marcel.Didn't Poch say at the start of the season KWP, Onomah and CCV will be really involved this season, now a month on one is loaned out and the other isn't deemed good enough to play RB even after all the injuries. It as usual just sounds like all talk, Poch wants to give player 5 minutes at the end of the match to look bold but when push comes to shove struggles to give real chances. Hope I'm wrong re: KWP but again after being talked up and winning u20 World Cup and beig under Poch's tutelage why is he not ready. Surely academy pathways should be down to planing and not luck. I reckon Sissoko and DIer will need to be injured before KWP starts.
Not believing everything Poch says doesn't go down well here, and it's why I never believe the, if you prove yourself in training you will get a chance, I don't get care about reputations. It's just a ready made excuse used for when whatever player ends up missing out, despite being coached by him for 2 years.
That or people question the quality of the players. The same players schooling their international contemporaries up until 21. It's all ready made excuses. You can bet though that when one of the foreign players gets a chance in their league English football fans will be all over them.
Personally Onomah loan is annoying, hopefully Poch letting him go on loan isn't a bad thing, but he needs games. Feels like a wasted year though as he could have done that last year, feels like so little planning. Let's just hope Onomah asking to go on loan doesn't affect his relationship, I know Winks kept hassling Poch too and was refused but hasn't seemed to affected them.
I actually agree, that Poch seems to be starting to shows glimpses of actually bring an academy player through in Winks, but regardless of what game he started (Bertrand started CL final) starting 3 PL matches is hardly a first team player.
If we were linked to a player who had only made 3 league starts, I'm sure you wouldn't describe him as an established player, you'd most likely call him a youth player or say he's a signing that would go into our development squad, as you did with Vincent Marcel who had only made 4 league starts last season.