A lot of activity on the wires about an own grown team.
It's for long been a dream, fantasy delusion of mine. Call it what you will.
Own grown players give you greater commitment and passion and the willingness to go the extra mile or three.
See the many testimonies to Harry Kane's dedication, first on: last off the training ground stuff.
However good the foreign stars are they lack that extra element which can make a difference.
And It gives the fans something to be proud of and identify with.
What they obviously lack is experience and of course an element of quality which pure home grownism cannot necessarily supply. But who would not pick Bentaleb over all of our Magnificent Seven midfielders.
Paulinho is clearly a talented player but generally speaking it's just a job, he could have gone anywhere in Europe and earned the same money and plays as if he can't really be bothered.He's not Tottenham and never will be. Well not unless he stays ten years which seems unlikely with Carroll and Winks breathing down his neck
We have nearly a dozen Academy boys waiting to join the five who played this year. Several played in the post season tour and did themselves no harm. There is plenty of quality there.Now's the time for the Geat Experiment which might change the face of English football.
Do we have a keeper anywhere in the ranks. McGee maybe but he didn't get the chance to show us on the bigger stage.
I wrote a little tongue in cheek about our Academy being the modern equivalent of the Medieval Philosopher's Stone turning base metal into gold. That would make Mauricio the Alchemist and he has some of the faith in youth to go some way towards it.
How far could such a team go? I know, I know you win nothing with kids. But I would be more than ready to watch the experiment get under way.
We would miss the Berbatovs, the Modric's, the Lloris's of course and foreign stars have added much to the quality of the Premiership and to the history of Spurs But Arsenal, City and Chelsea amongst others have let it get out of hand, fielding virtually all foreign signings and either not producing their own or not playing them with any conviction.
I would love it, love it to see an Academy team walk out at White hart Lane in the Premiership. But I'm not so Spursified to think that it could happen.But I bet we could get damn close to fielding one and for them to finish top half and maybe more.. I'd settle for that.
There is no-one in our current squad apart from Eriksen and Lloris that demand to be made Honorary Spurs.
Perhaps Vertonghen on a good day.
Come on Mauricio give it a go. You know you want to and Daniel Levy too but for different reasons. Am I serious? You bet. Am I deluded. Almost certainly.
Has Ledley got his badges yet? Is Bale ready to return? I love my dreams. I'm off to bed.
It's for long been a dream, fantasy delusion of mine. Call it what you will.
Own grown players give you greater commitment and passion and the willingness to go the extra mile or three.
See the many testimonies to Harry Kane's dedication, first on: last off the training ground stuff.
However good the foreign stars are they lack that extra element which can make a difference.
And It gives the fans something to be proud of and identify with.
What they obviously lack is experience and of course an element of quality which pure home grownism cannot necessarily supply. But who would not pick Bentaleb over all of our Magnificent Seven midfielders.
Paulinho is clearly a talented player but generally speaking it's just a job, he could have gone anywhere in Europe and earned the same money and plays as if he can't really be bothered.He's not Tottenham and never will be. Well not unless he stays ten years which seems unlikely with Carroll and Winks breathing down his neck
We have nearly a dozen Academy boys waiting to join the five who played this year. Several played in the post season tour and did themselves no harm. There is plenty of quality there.Now's the time for the Geat Experiment which might change the face of English football.
Do we have a keeper anywhere in the ranks. McGee maybe but he didn't get the chance to show us on the bigger stage.
I wrote a little tongue in cheek about our Academy being the modern equivalent of the Medieval Philosopher's Stone turning base metal into gold. That would make Mauricio the Alchemist and he has some of the faith in youth to go some way towards it.
How far could such a team go? I know, I know you win nothing with kids. But I would be more than ready to watch the experiment get under way.
We would miss the Berbatovs, the Modric's, the Lloris's of course and foreign stars have added much to the quality of the Premiership and to the history of Spurs But Arsenal, City and Chelsea amongst others have let it get out of hand, fielding virtually all foreign signings and either not producing their own or not playing them with any conviction.
I would love it, love it to see an Academy team walk out at White hart Lane in the Premiership. But I'm not so Spursified to think that it could happen.But I bet we could get damn close to fielding one and for them to finish top half and maybe more.. I'd settle for that.
There is no-one in our current squad apart from Eriksen and Lloris that demand to be made Honorary Spurs.
Perhaps Vertonghen on a good day.
Come on Mauricio give it a go. You know you want to and Daniel Levy too but for different reasons. Am I serious? You bet. Am I deluded. Almost certainly.
Has Ledley got his badges yet? Is Bale ready to return? I love my dreams. I'm off to bed.
