Tbf Chelsea change manager so often and crave success in such a way that youth development is not a priority and instead their academy is simply another way of them making money.
I think the model is broadly a good one and if it helps give our young players opportunity I’m all for it.
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Agreed. In matches where he had the beating of his man every time it worked well because one in every ten passes/crosses would end in a goal, but otherwise he was very wasteful.
I think the thing to remember with Winks is that he was training with the first team at 16- identified by AVB and fast-tracked to some degree, but also played regular Under-21 games. I guess the player you'd most compare his development with is TOB.
That's a real pity and in contrast to how the club stood by Joe Pritchard.
If Tsaroulla's getting released then it all but confirms that Brown is too as Tsaroulla is the superior player IMO.
Think there's a balance between thinking Griffiths is a bit of a berk for tweeting some deliberately provocative stuff and thinking he's got 'an attitude problem'. For all we know he's been messed about by the club all year and is frustrated. We can't always assume the player's 100% in the wrong...
I saw quite a lot of Bostock and always felt that he had lovely technique but was well behind others in terms of positioning/decision-making, so didn't really fit into a team very well.
Rebrov was largely terrible (despite being good in another league and his country) much like Paulinho was largely terrible (despite being good in another league and his country) and much like Sissoko has been largely terrible (despite being good in another league and his country).
Somewhere in a dark corner of the coys web is a post from years back saying ‘Rebrov may not be good enough for Spurs but he’s better than any striking prospect we’ll ever being through ourselves’.
Can confirm Lilywhite Rose is very much a legit account which gets decent snippets of info. It's run by two people, one of whom I know and who is a great guy.
I think you make some good points but £2m for Bennetts is cheap, like £250k for Veljkovic was cheap at the time, £500k was cheap for Azzaoui, etc. I totally agree that selling players on for profit is a large part of the Academy -- and rightly so, we can't just hold on to players indefinitely --...
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