- Oct 3, 2011
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actual spurs youth tanganga also started.
all the chelsea lads making their way into the first team at the moment have been there since they were like 6, 7, 8. they do get first "dibs" on kids even at that age because of what they can offer them but it's still the coaching they've received over the following 10+ years that has seen them get to the level they're currently at.
i do think we neglect the physical aspect a bit compared to other clubs though and in general ours are always small/late developers in comparison. arsenal are producing players with a better blend of attributes at the moment as well unfortunately, they've had a baron run over recent years but they're now bringing through some players of real quality. we do still have a few of our own but not as many as the clubs around us and even ones like parrott and bennett are fairly recent recruits, rather than having come all the way through the system.
This whole Chelsea revolution is being massively over hyped. They’ve beaten nobody yet and bar the win away at wolves( who we were in a europa rut) they’ve done nothing of note yet.
Funny how Poch brings through Winks over 5 years and everyone leans on that as a reason hes done excellently with our academy.
Lampard has Tomori, Mount and Abraham introduced to the first team whilst continuing with CHO but its nothing impressive.
And have shown @ljinko888 and us you dont need to be in the Europa league to give them a chance
Liverpool are capping youth player wages at £40,000-a-year
Yout players will not be able to earn a basic salary of more than £40,000 in their first year as a professionalwww.independent.co.uk
£40,000? How can you live on that?
Clarke started for U20s. FT 2-2 no idea if involved in goals.
Jack Clarke? He can play for Leeds and our u-20 team?
We are all baffled with this.the re-signing of vorm is yet another example of how baffling the approach to our academy has become.
now let me get this out of the way first, no i wouldn't feel particularly confident if whiteman or austin found themselves in goal for the first team but this isn't the point. clearly poch feels the same given we've had to resort to bringing vorm back but the two issues i have with this are a) why aren't we letting them go out on loan if that's the case??? and b) how on earth are they ever going to prove whether they can be relied upon if at the first sign of trouble all you're going to do is shit your pants and re-sign a player you've just let go? what's going to change in whiteman/austin's game from now and next year? or the year after? or the year after that if all they're doing is training and not being allowed to prove themselves capable or not somewhere else? we don't want to loan them but we don't want to play them either so is the plan to just keep them until they're mid 20s and then release them?
does john mcdermott not have a say in any of this or has he just become pochettino's yes man?