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IGSpur

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Justin was promoted to U23 Asst. early this season

Was there an announcement? So could be a genuine promotion for his excellent work and showing a pathway, and not just the friendly face theory
 

ralphs bald spot

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Good question but I assume there could be an FA punishment. I doubt reds by themself would matter, but there's got to be some kind of punishment for that. Imagine if someone spat at someone in an u23s match and got banned, but then got called up to the PL the following week. It's a disgusting act but it would have essentially received no punishment for it. Something like that especially as the experienced player completely over reacting to a normal challenge is terrible behaviour and sets such a poor standard


He will be banned for three games presumbaly a straight red and that includes 1st team fixtures
 

Anuth

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He will be banned for three games presumbaly a straight red and that includes 1st team fixtures

only Non-First team match?
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bat-chain

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I hope Poch, who is supposedly close to that absolute gimp tells him to get fucked from now on.
 

neilp

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If Klopp has any sense of fair play, yeah I know what I said, he would make llalana sit out 3 games in first team. And fine the **** for a disgusting display against a youth team.
 

Blackrat1299

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What a stupid rule, it should apply all the way through. He has displayed violent conduct and in reality will not be punished for it.
 

bat-chain

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Still at least if we notice Dele is getting a bit uptight we can demote him to throttle a youth player of his choosing, get it out of his system.
 

Bus-Conductor

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This was tweeted a coupe of days ago by the guy from the FT (John Burn-Murdoch) who's article about Dortmund development methods etc I posted in the general youth thread (I've also retweeted a couple of his articles if you check my twitter thingy):

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coys200

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UYL draw on Friday. Will we be seeded ? Presume getting one of the play off teams ?
 

IGSpur

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This was tweeted a coupe of days ago by the guy from the FT (John Burn-Murdoch) who's article about Dortmund development methods etc I posted in the general youth thread (I've also retweeted a couple of his articles if you check my twitter thingy):

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Really disappointing. Even if people try to take into account that the Premier League is 'strong' whatever that means, surely it isn't more stronger than the other leagues than our academies' our compared to other academies. In fact judging by recent winners of CL and EL competitions you'd be inclined to think other leagues are stronger than ours, ours is just richer meaning we can hand other clubs our money for average players.

It's genuinely poor and explains why all of a sudden our u21s drop off compared to other nations whereas before that we are all dominant. I don't think people quite understand how important youth football and tournaments mean to other nations. Players who perform well in youth competitions in other countries might get themselves a promotion to the first team as a result. That would never happen here as people believe in the rite of passage, of doing this, then doing that, then going there, then coming back and if, if various circumstances fall in your favour, you might get yourself a chance. Imagine an u17 Euro winner and u20 World Cup CM coming through another league, at a club like Sevilla. They would cherish them and try and get them into their first team. Here, we play them out of position and then send them on loan to a club playing hoofball and wonder what has gone wrong? English fans and managers are so stuck in their ways and 'the rite of passage' is so ingrained that they are complicit in the lack of development of English footballers, without even realising. Other nations look at us like we are crazy, for wasting our players but we don't dare question it, and when we do it is only superficially for want of a better word. It's wanting change without actually having to experience going through the change and the risks associated with it.

We appeared so far behind in developing talent, we have now caught up and overtaken other nations, but the last hurdle seems to be the greatest. Imagine with the talent in England if we just matched La Liga where we would be.

Re: us we may be one of the richest clubs in the world but we are the 6th richest in England. We cannot out gun our opponents in the transfer market hence why we have bought so few World Class players in our time despite so many attempts. Yet we have Kane who came through fortunately, why not be smarter and actually trust what we have for once and stop doubting them. I saw a debate where people were defending Pogba for not showing his talent in a CM 2 when he usually plays in a CM3. I agree but why is that same energy not given to Onomah or our own players. Why is a World Class player when in a CM 3 excused playing in a CM2 but an academy player who has only ever played in a CM, should expect to be better than actual wingers in the first team. We all accept other nations to things better than our how about copying what they do.
 
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