Best way to implement young players into the side?

[dontcallme]

So we're out of the Europa and many are saying it's because our young players are not yet good enough. I don't agree with this.

We could play a make shift team of:

Gomes, Corluka, Galas, Bassong, Rose, Dos Santos, Livermore, Carroll, Townsend, Krancjar and Pav and I still we'd have struggled.

The reason being that:

1. The team don't play together often enough to have any understanding of each other.
2. We are not playing like for like with the team that is performing successfully in the league.
3. Too many players not match fit to last the whole 90 minutes.

So playing too many youngsters in the same situation is hardly going to get great results.

Kaboul strugled in our first two games but once we introduced Parker to protect the defence our central defence has looked much more assured. Playing Livermore next to Modric will leave any defensive partnership exposed and it's no wonder Bassong and Gallas looked weak in the Europa.

So is playing a very young team resting the vast majority of our first team in the EL and CC really going to benefit them?

Keeping the team dynamic the same by playing a DM like Parker or Sandro next to Livermore would surely have helped him put in a more confident peformance.

Putting a make shift team together can't be good for developing our young players and is even worse with regards to implementing them into the first team.

For this season our main aim is to get in the top four so it's understandable that we rested our first team players especially as we have had injuries. But as far as playing as developing our young players goes, fielding a team full of youngsters and not having the same team dynamic that we play in the league really can't have helped their development that much.

 

[Mullers]

I don't think it has helped their development much at all, they are not really being slowly introduced into league games so that doesn't help either. They get put into cup games because they are not deemed as important, then we get knocked out and then their game time is finished for the rest of the season.

 

[ChristianBaler]

Well, most wont be implemented because almost all of them will be going on loan to get games.

 

[Locotoro]

I'm all for the involvement of youth players but this is a very interesting topic. I just read an article on a Real Madrid blog which touched on the same topic. I guess it shows that no matter which team you support you're gonna be calling for more youth to be played.

But the question has to be asked whether the players are good enough or whether they are being played to satisfy the fans. An example would be Fredericks playing in those early Europa games. Are there better players at the moment in the youth set up? Yes, so why play him?

I would be interested to know how many youths have left us and would still make our squad?