It needed a really good shake up throughout - from wages levels, recruitment practices, coaching staff and pretty much everything. I still think more needs doing but its changed hugely over last 2 or 3 years
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It needed a really good shake up throughout - from wages levels, recruitment practices, coaching staff and pretty much everything. I still think more needs doing but its changed hugely over last 2 or 3 years
I thought he had worked his way up to head of the academy by the time he had left?
Perhaps I'm thinking of Mcdermott
Fuck you all
That's good to here.
Been out injured post an op for about 11 months.
His time blighted at Spurs by injury and poor form - his best time since joining almost certainly his loan at Hoffenheim. Needs another of those
Needs a permanent home if possible.
I'm talking about loans out during that specific period. The likes of Kane, Townsend, Caulker, Mason etc who all needed the experience.
Pretty sure Sherwood was in charge of that side of things and he was brought in by Redknapp.
No, John McDermott was head of the academy throughout Alex time at Spurs, and after McDermott left it was Dean Rastrick.
But we had 2 or 3 very able youth coaches of who Inglethorpe was one and I think he led several youth groups to tournaments etc without a need for McDermott to oversee. A great loss when he did go to Liverpool where he was originally u21 manager before becoming their Head of Academy.
I get that, but those players would have been being managed by the club/academy rather than the manager himself at that stage of their development.
Yeah, having had a quick look online it seems it is McDermott who i should have been referring to for this discussion rather than Inglethorpe.
I've seen Josh fucking Onomah mentioned multiple times today.
You do realise he's 26 and hasn't had club since last summer?
Fulham let him go in January 2023 having no played for ages.
He, like so many kids, get seen by fans playing kids football and think they're ready for the PL.
And not just the PL, but a top 6 PL team with ambitions to be in the CL every season.
It does not matter if a kid looks good in the kids league. There's been very few players to leave Spurs academy that have proven anyone wrong. Edwards is Portugal. He's 25 years old, he is no longer a young prospect, he's probably at his level. Madueke, we'll see, but he's not exactly showing he's a start in the making yet.
The homegrown and club trained rules are fucking pathetic. Most teams just pick 4 players from the academy to sit in the team bus and rarely make the match day squad just because they're obliged to.
It's not helping the national team.
From the last 21 man England squad, only about 4 players were still at the club they started at as a youth. So clubs are being told they must have 4 academy/CT players in their 25 man squad but for the most part, those players won't play and effectively can't leave.
I don't really have a problem with home grown rules so much. I think it gives each league a character if the spine of every team is from that country. But the CT thing bugs me. 2 max.
It's also a little counter productive for teams with less resources. They may not have the facilities to bring kids through, but also, may really depend on the income of selling them just to exist. I'd even argue we were once, not that long ago, a team that used development and sales to stabilise our finances and move forward.
You do realise he's 26 and hasn't had club since last summer?
Fulham let him go in January 2023 having no played for ages.
He, like so many kids, get seen by fans playing kids football and think they're ready for the PL.
And not just the PL, but a top 6 PL team with ambitions to be in the CL every season.
It does not matter if a kid looks good in the kids league. There's been very few players to leave Spurs academy that have proven anyone wrong. Edwards is Portugal. He's 25 years old, he is no longer a young prospect, he's probably at his level. Madueke, we'll see, but he's not exactly showing he's a start in the making yet.
The homegrown and club trained rules are fucking pathetic. Most teams just pick 4 players from the academy to sit in the team bus and rarely make the match day squad just because they're obliged to.
It's not helping the national team.
From the last 21 man England squad, only about 4 players were still at the club they started at as a youth. So clubs are being told they must have 4 academy/CT players in their 25 man squad but for the most part, those players won't play and effectively can't leave.
I don't really have a problem with home grown rules so much. I think it gives each league a character if the spine of every team is from that country. But the CT thing bugs me. 2 max.
It's also a little counter productive for teams with less resources. They may not have the facilities to bring kids through, but also, may really depend on the income of selling them just to exist. I'd even argue we were once, not that long ago, a team that used development and sales to stabilise our finances and move forward.
Been quite a lot of discussion about youth today.
Thought it might be helpful to see the clubs supplying E u15 youngsters
View: https://x.com/TheSecretScout_/status/1749466338240733597?s=20
Spurs usually just below MabCity and Chelsea whose salaries for youngsters nobody has ever been able to compete with. So we ae usually in the top 4 or 6 rated academies in England
Thought it might be helpful to see the clubs supplying E u15 youngsters
View: https://x.com/TheSecretScout_/status/1749466338240733597?s=20
Spurs usually just below MabCity and Chelsea whose salaries for youngsters nobody has ever been able to compete with. So we ae usually in the top 4 or 6 rated academies in England
Maybe it's game time playing poker. Even he couldn't get much more than a paper cut playing that.
Then again,
He'd probably find out he was a fucking hemophiliac or something worse
I doubt it. What level of club will take him? No chance a championship club will take him. A team at the bottom fighting for their lives wouldn’t touch him and a team trying to go up will have much better players than him. A mid table team won’t pay even half his wages.
Also, how we deal with "lesser" players is very important. Mums and dads pick what team their boy goes to and Spurs have a very good record of looking after players that won't make it and help finding them other clubs.