Pritchard admits "I couldn't wait to get out"

[mawspurs]

The 23-year-old midfielder completed a permanent move to Championship promotion hopefuls Norwich, after four loan deals in five years

Read the full article at Daily Mirror

 

[Shadydan]

Sad to hear.

 

[KingNothing]

He was definitely never given a chance here.

 

[stuffies]

Bit unfair I think. ...He was loaned out and proved himself....then he was in our pre season games and was Inc in the squad for the prem. ....
However if I recall....He got a bad injury and by the time he was back,he was well behind in fitness and match practice.
Loaned out then......This is where he should have worked his socks off to get back into the mix.
Seems he gave up.

Poch has proven.....play well and you'll play or be in the squad and will get game time.

 

[Jamturk]

Not giving youth a chance isn't something you can accuse us of.

Obviously something was missing from his make up.

 

[Chris_D]

It's a shame he's said this. I'm sorry for him if that's how he feels but if I'd been advising him I'd have told him to keep quiet and let his feet do the talking. I think he's made the right move, if he'd stayed he would hardly played so that's pointless. I think he's a decent player and Norwich will love him but I somehow doubt we'll look back on this deal as a big mistake.

 

[Spurrific]

I'll trust the management on this one. Have always thought he looked decent but perhaps one of the most overhyped players in this site's history. Talk of him competing with Eriksen was massively off the mark.

 

[fridgemagnet]

I hate that phrase "farmed out on loan" young players need to be loaned it's part of their football education for most players.

I agree he did have a lot of loans & sending players to clubs that don't play them is something that should be looked at although they should still have to earn the right to play.
Arguably the whole loan system needs a good going over with a tin of Ajaks and a J cloth.

Our managerial turnover probably didn't help either, yet again though and lots of salt purely going off what that shit rag has printed but did he have the right attitude or was he another Bostock?

I do understand that he would be frustrated though given all the above. As i said elsewhere best of luck to him.

 

[Treacle]

How many loans did Kane have? A lot more than this lad if I recall correctly. As someone else has said, it's not that we didn't want to give him a chance, it's just when his time came, he got injured and the club moved forward without him. Sad to hear his sour grapes as I was looking forward to see what he could do.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Not giving youth a chance isn't something you can accuse us of.

Obviously something was missing from his make up.

Nail varnish?

 

[rupsmith]

Poch is clearly a manager who values physical strength as much as technical ability - with good reason considering how athletic modern day football is. Pritch was definitely a decent player but did his somewhat slight frame eventually count against him in the way Poch sets his teams up? Tom Carrol also seems to be in the same boat

 

[Kiedis]

Sour grapes. He got his chance here, but was unlucky, that's all.

He was pretty far up in the pecking order in the start of last season, but when he came back from injury, the rest of the squad seems to have left him behind in terms of development. If he had stayed fit, he may have got quite a bit of playing time.

And he's 23 now. Not an age where you'll want to spend your time catching up to others.

 

[Dennism]

It is telling that other Premier League teams did not come in for him. He needs to stop whinging and try to prove himself. He had injuries and did well at Brentford. However, at West Brom he failed to get in the team. We will move on and he needs to as well.

 

[Japhet]

Best of luck to him but you don't get given chances by Pochettino. You earn them and for various reasons Pritchard never managed to do that.

 

[gusrowe]

A little ungrateful I fear. Obviously talented but not good enough for the first team squad. He had plenty of time at Spurs and on loan to prove himself but not Premiership standard I fear. He now has a second chance at Norwich and I wish him well.

 

[tiger666]

See ya.

 

[Buggsy61]

Unless Alex has been misquoted a bit more class would not go amiss. We are still the club that got him where he is with probably a good slice of the transfer fee that will go someway to setting him up for life.
Having said that I am sure most of us will watch his future career with interest and wish him well.

 

[King of Otters]

I can understand why he might be dispirited. He's part of the generation that suffered/benefited from our scattergun loan approach.

Imagine what it's like for a young player playing for a new club every season while your parent club changes manager every other year.

Thankfully it looks like we've moved beyond that model, but it came a little too late for Pritchard.

 

[Khilari]

He was definitely never given a chance here.

I don't know if it's as simple as that.

You have to, as a player prove your worth in training and competitive matches. I don't think anyone would point at Pochettino as someone who doesn't give young players responsibility.

Pritchard had a number of loans during which to prove his worth but ultimately was deemed by the current coaching staff as not good enough to make the grade.

He may go on and prove them wrong, but his "chances" were on the training ground and during his loan spells where he did and did not impress. I was worried for him when he only made 3/4 appearances at WBA.

 

[Khilari]

I can understand why he might be dispirited. He's part of the generation that suffered/benefited from our scattergun loan approach.

Imagine what it's like for a young player playing for a new club every season while your parent club changes manager every other year.

Thankfully it looks like we've moved beyond that model, but it came a little too late for Pritchard.

Saying that however I think someone like Harry Kane benefited massively from plying his trade in lower leagues.

I think there's probably something to be said for "learning the life" of a lower leagues player - from match journeys, dressing rooms and probably a lack of premier league mollycoddling.

You're right though that having players be around and train with the first team helps them understand manager expectations and the team's ethos.