Loan Watch Troy Parrott - Excelsior Rotterdam

[Cornpattbuck]

Go on lad!

 

[Fittster]

Does anyone follow Millwall to have any idea if he's likely to be able to take a first team place from their two current strikers ( Matt Smith and Tom Bradshaw)?

 

[yido16]

Matt smith is a big lump who could play alongside Parrot , I remember him at QPR don’t know anything about Zbradshaw though

 

[kthwlsn]

Matt smith is a big lump who could play alongside Parrot , I remember him at QPR don’t know anything about Zbradshaw though

I know so little about Milwall that I just googled to see if Zbradshaw was a typo or some combo Anglo-eastern European name.

 

[Joshua]

Happy with this. I hated our policy of youth development under Poch i.e his mistrust of the loan system and the belief they were better off training with him even if they weren’t being selected. Absolutely vital these young players get out and play regularly once they’ve outgrown the youth teams but are just shy of the first team squad. Convinced it’s why only Winks made it as a first team regular under Poch and why we lost a glut of prospects under him. Already much happier with Mourinho’s approach to our younger players. Despite the pre-conceived notion by some that he’d kill our academy.

 

[midge]

Good for Troy. Hope he is a success there

We lost a lot of good young players cause we stop loaning for the last few years...hopefully this is a new start

 

[sidford]

If he does have an attitude problem then this is a very good club for him to go to. The dressing room is unlikely to allow a kid act like Jimmy big bollox or not work so they'll hammer him for that if he tries it.
I'm delighted with this one because if he does get games then hopefully he'll get some more games for Ireland and Stephen Kenny is likely to give more young lads a chance than McCarthy did so this could be a very big season for him if he takes the opportunity

 

[Dzejkob]

One of our strikers also had joined Milwall on loan in young age and he turned out to be pretty good. Let's hope Parrott can go similar way

 

[spids]

I’m going to optimistically hope that we’re confident on getting in a striker if we’re letting him out already

Seeing as JM wouldn’t use him when Kane and Son were injured I would not read too much into that.

 

[SpartanSpur]

Seems like a good move, seems people expect him to be a starter there. Poor loans have been costly for us in the past (Onomah is the obvious one that comes to mind) but hopefully we will get this one right. Millwall looked after Kane well.

 

[brendanb50]

Seems like a good move, seems people expect him to be a starter there. Poor loans have been costly for us in the past (Onomah is the obvious one that comes to mind) but hopefully we will get this one right. Millwall looked after Kane well.

Him starting shouldn't be a given. He'll be going into a different squad/dressing room with a team fighting for different things but you would hope his quality should be evident.

Should be a good eye-opener for a young player who has spent his development years at a top club. Hopefully it's a good loan and perhaps for TP it's come at just about the right time.

 

[wrd]

The Bournemouth link sounded good but somebody made a better point that he will likely start every week for Millwall. Great move, can't wait to see how he does.

 

[SpartanSpur]

Him starting shouldn't be a given. He'll be going into a different squad/dressing room with a team fighting for different things but you would hope his quality should be evident.

Should be a good eye-opener for a young player who has spent his development years at a top club. Hopefully it's a good loan and perhaps for TP it's come at just about the right time.

Maybe not a guaranteed starting berth but at least a clearer pathway than say Jack Clarke had at QPR.

Of course at the end of the day the onus is on the player to apply themselves well, something that I think some of our youth have been guilty of also.

 

[brendanb50]

Maybe not a guaranteed starting berth but at least a clearer pathway than say Jack Clarke had at QPR.

Of course at the end of the day the onus is on the player to apply themselves well, something that I think some of our youth have been guilty of also.

That last point has to be a bit of a universal challenge. How do you get young players to 'prove' they're as capable as they may think. In theory a top academy player, should go to a lower league and have the quality to shine a bit.

As you've said, some of that is about space in that squad, how close to a starting spot/sub spot are you? But then beyond that it's about learning, improving and application. Teaching players that they need to be utterly focused regardless of where they're playing seems to be the key factor.

 

[razzmaster]

Maybe not a guaranteed starting berth but at least a clearer pathway than say Jack Clarke had at QPR.

Of course at the end of the day the onus is on the player to apply themselves well, something that I think some of our youth have been guilty of also.

Joining preseason is huge too as it is hard for a young player to join a club on loan mid season and hit the ground running.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

He’s got two years left on his deal after this coming season so a year on loan, let him develop and hopefully hit a decent goal return, then when he returns he’ll be a 19 year old who’s done it in a decent level league, extend his deal by another two years and promote him to the first team squad.

 

[DCSPUR]

Happy with this. I hated our policy of youth development under Poch i.e his mistrust of the loan system and the belief they were better off training with him even if they weren’t being selected. Absolutely vital these young players get out and play regularly once they’ve outgrown the youth teams but are just shy of the first team squad. Convinced it’s why only Winks made it as a first team regular under Poch and why we lost a glut of prospects under him. Already much happier with Mourinho’s approach to our younger players. Despite the pre-conceived notion by some that he’d kill our academy.

Am a massive Poch fan and was gutted that he was sacked - thought i harsh etc etc.
But he did have two blind spots - one was a reluctance later in his tenure to bring in more of the youth. Odd because both Southampton and early with us he did that to success. Don't know why he agreed to signings of GKN, Clinton et al instead of more youth promotion.
The second, was too much loyalty to his seniors - a reluctance to do what he did earlier in tenure and shake up the status quo a bit....
Giving him the benefit of the doubt on the second point, perhaps the mentality he had to build in the Wembley period made him feel like he had to do that.

But those are two areas wish he'd been braver.

 

[DiVaio]

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Good to do the loan deal early as well.

 

[DiVaio]