wirE
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Southend United are delighted to announce the signing of @ShayonHarrison on loan from Tottenham Hotspur until the end of the season.
The Spurs Youth Thread - 2017/2018
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Locotoro
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Is he any relation to our previous Dean Parrot?
You mean Dean Parrett?
Locotoro
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I guess that answers my question...
Good post.. hopefully moura can add some new flavour to things
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John Bostock
signing for Bursaspor from Lens.
Ogilvie staying at Gills to end of season.
signing for Bursaspor from Lens.
Ogilvie staying at Gills to end of season.
IGSpur
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When you realise our potential bench for Liverpool could be
Vorm
Alderweireld
Aurier
Wanyama
Lamela
Moura
Llorente
With sissoko winks davies foyth KWP not even in matchday squad. You can see how tough it’s gonna start getting for the kids.
Vorm
Alderweireld
Aurier
Wanyama
Lamela
Moura
Llorente
With sissoko winks davies foyth KWP not even in matchday squad. You can see how tough it’s gonna start getting for the kids.
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think it'll depend on what kind of offers we'd recieve for him. If a liecester come in with anything north of 25 I think we'd be stupid not to take the deal.
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which is why we need to make better use of the loan system rather than this idealistic/unrealistic approach of them all just seamlessly transitioning into first team players with no previous first team experience. it's not even just a lack of senior games either, it's a lack of games full stop as once poch gets them into his training system they're apparently not allowed to play anymore and if it wasn't for internationals they would be going full seasons without playing in any kind of competitive match environment.
Locotoro
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I guess this is a new problem for Poch and one he hasn't previously had to deal with. At previous clubs, he has either had a B team or a not-so-strong first team to bring youth on. I think we should cut him some slack in that he is learning how to deal with this problem and he's shown himself not averse to changing his approach
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Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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I can't believe that he's still only 28.
Spurrific
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He's just turned 26 pal
Metalhead
But that's a debate for another thread.....
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Really? Wow. Amazing.
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Which is all well and good, but why then whenever any questioned what he was doing, or suggesting he could be doing things better were fans just being shouted down. Or assumed they didn't know anything or were just plain wrong, because Poch disagreed. He is clearly struggling as just like other managers of top clubs, and is now changing his own methods, in line with what most clubs do and fans suggested, but the last 3/4 years were spent accusing fans of not knowing what they were on about, and to just trust his philosophy.
I still don't know why he can't just give players a chance if he thinks they are good enough. Where would Sancho be if he was still at City, probably still being told he isn't ready. Dortmund gave him the no.7 shirt with no loans and went straight from youth team football into the Bundesliga, who'd have thought that was possible. Plenty of ours would be in the same position if they left.
On that note, Arsenal have lost 4 players now, Willock, Crowley, Hinds and now McGuane to clubs abroad. Willock and McGuane are good players so good luck to them. Crowley appears to need this opportuntiy to reignite his career, never really rated Hinds though.
Also Mount is absolutely tearing up Eredivisie, yet he'll come back to Chelsea and probably won't get a chance, as he's 'not ready' whereas they'd probably go and buy someone like Neres and give him chances.
Wonder how long before our players start leaving, unless they're still under the managers spell. I know a few clubs abroad have looked at a couple of our players, and our players have shown an interested but nothing materialised. Not everyone is brave enough to make that jump I guess
DogsOfWar
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But these lads will still be involved in 11 v 11 matches in training where they will gain the experience of going up against the first team players.
The likes of Dier, Wanyama,Jan etc will be just as competitive in training as match days so it provides the perfect environment to assess the youngsters.
If they're dancing around Vic and Jan before smashing the ball past Lloris regularly then I'm sure they would be getting plenty of game time.
We all want players like Onomah and Edwards to succeed and replace Sissoko but Poch will have matched them up during training matches and seen Sissoko boss them. And until he sees the opposite they aren't playing.
I suspect the loans are Poch's way of saying they are not developing as they should and need to experience life further down the leagues to understand it isn't any easier and they need to work harder if they want to make it as just moving them back into youth football won't help them.
It's no surprise that KWP hasn't gone anywhere because he is now the most promising youngster we have. And he'll learn a lot more trying to stop Kane, Alli, Eriksen, Son etc every day in training matches/attack v defence exercises than he will in the Championship.
