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I’d play him against Wimbledon and take it from there. Maybe try to find him a PL club.
All this talk of Poch not giving youth a chance compared with his Espanyol and even Southampton days has lost all sense of context.
Look at where we are in the footballing hierarchy. We are a Champions League club right now. Espanyol and Southampton were not. In order to bring through youth into the first team squad those players have to be a step up from what we needed previously. I'd expect the ratio of youth players deemed good enough to diminish the better we got that's just logical.
Of the players in our squad who could comfortably be replaced by youth players i can think of only one and that'd be Sissoko for Onomah (at a push - because they still don't give you the same thing). All the rest of our current options are better than what we're producing so I can't really understand the criticism of Poch.