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No. Never have. Bit difficult as I have spent my entire adult life (last thirty years) living/working in Germany.
I do however go quite regularly to my local team's (Eintracht Frankfurt) u17 and u19 games.
The Spurs Youth Thread - 2018/19
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No. Never have. Bit difficult as I have spent my entire adult life (last thirty years) living/working in Germany.
I do however go quite regularly to my local team's (Eintracht Frankfurt) u17 and u19 games.
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Its fine mate.. I'm. Not about to spit my dummy out.
Look at it from a fan perspective.. A lad gets a first team Chance at a very young age through talent, injuries etc.
Fans now know of this young player and expectations of the young player are automatically raised because he's debuted at what seems a higher level than his peers..thus from. A fans point of view there expecting something more than what the player can actually achieve very possibly.
I guess your cliche can go both ways in short it can either make or break and being very honest I've seen both.
Spurzinho
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Bostock blames his stepdad for forcing him to move to us when he didn't want to. His stepdad saw the £££ and pressured him into to signing. To be fair to him he has also been open about that fact that his attitude was far from good enough and that he wouldn't listen, wouldn't work hard and thought that he deserved opportunities on reputation alone. In his case he most certainly got too much too soon.
Phil Ifil is an interesting one. He was rated extremely highly as a youth and got to make his debut quite early (17/18) but if I remember it was because we were really short of right backs at the time. I think Stephen Kelly had gone, Stephen Carr had gone, Mauricio Tarrico had gone, Dean marney had reverted back to central midfield.etc
Ifil did okay on his debut against Liverpool, although was lucky as he committed a blatant foul in the penalty area that the ref missed, but his subsequent performances were a little lacklustre. We brought in Noe Pamarot from Nice which was a really strange recruitment decision and Ifil had to settle for being no.2. By all accounts that I've heard Phil took losing his place badly, got sulky, and never really recovered. He seemed an angry and bitter player for quite a while afterwards.
In both cases attitude player a large role in their failure to reach their potential. They absolute deserved to be handled better as well but a questionable attitude is never going to allow a player to flourish.
Phil Ifil is an interesting one. He was rated extremely highly as a youth and got to make his debut quite early (17/18) but if I remember it was because we were really short of right backs at the time. I think Stephen Kelly had gone, Stephen Carr had gone, Mauricio Tarrico had gone, Dean marney had reverted back to central midfield.etc
Ifil did okay on his debut against Liverpool, although was lucky as he committed a blatant foul in the penalty area that the ref missed, but his subsequent performances were a little lacklustre. We brought in Noe Pamarot from Nice which was a really strange recruitment decision and Ifil had to settle for being no.2. By all accounts that I've heard Phil took losing his place badly, got sulky, and never really recovered. He seemed an angry and bitter player for quite a while afterwards.
In both cases attitude player a large role in their failure to reach their potential. They absolute deserved to be handled better as well but a questionable attitude is never going to allow a player to flourish.
therhinospeaks
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Bostock was shit...simple as that.
spursfan77
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There's a video floating around on SC somewhere about bostock and his time here. I think it was from the summer. It explains everything
Tangential but a good point in Lingard's players' tribune piece echoing the thoughts of some here, sometimes these things take time:
"We all got different paths in this game. There’s so many things you don’t see. You know what’s so crazy to me? I was sat in that Marriott back in 2012, eating my room service chips, and I was barely getting a run out for Leicester. And in that same dressing room you had Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane, and they were going through the same struggles. We were all just trying to get a game in the Championship.
"Six years later, we’re all walking out for the World Cup semifinal, representing England.
"How do you explain that?"
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/e...promise-you-never-read-a-story-like-this-mate
Writing them off at 19-22 because they struggle getting time in the championship like Lingard can be short sighted. Obviously doesn't mean everyone will turn out great and you will have to cut your losses at times but just because they aren't dominating as young players doesn't mean they can't/won't be good enough.
"We all got different paths in this game. There’s so many things you don’t see. You know what’s so crazy to me? I was sat in that Marriott back in 2012, eating my room service chips, and I was barely getting a run out for Leicester. And in that same dressing room you had Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane, and they were going through the same struggles. We were all just trying to get a game in the Championship.
"Six years later, we’re all walking out for the World Cup semifinal, representing England.
"How do you explain that?"
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/e...promise-you-never-read-a-story-like-this-mate
Writing them off at 19-22 because they struggle getting time in the championship like Lingard can be short sighted. Obviously doesn't mean everyone will turn out great and you will have to cut your losses at times but just because they aren't dominating as young players doesn't mean they can't/won't be good enough.
Tarrelle Whittaker is a striker for our U16s and is expected to be signing a two-year scholarship in June.
Strange absolutely nothing on goggle or twitter about him.
Ok it’s tarrelle not Terrell.
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only time i've seen whittaker was last year in italy as part of an u17 group, was playing as a winger then though and was pretty small, assume he must've shot up a bit since then to now be leading the line for our u18s. he's the first u16 to make an appearance for the u18s this season.
He’s been out injured for the last few months, but he returned to full training this week, so you should see him return to action in the coming weeks.
