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Ah this is the final straw for me.
I'm taking a levy out banner to the NLD!
This club is directionless from the top right down through the first team and youth teams. Spending cash on shit foreign players, not giving a chance to young players who have shown promise but happy to give a chance to other young players who haven't shown anything e.g. Scarlett and Tanganga.
The one thing I could rely on was watching the youth team play even when the first team were shit. Now you can't even do that because we have shut down avenues for them to progress here.
Think I might move to watching the women's team instead.
I'm taking a levy out banner to the NLD!
This club is directionless from the top right down through the first team and youth teams. Spending cash on shit foreign players, not giving a chance to young players who have shown promise but happy to give a chance to other young players who haven't shown anything e.g. Scarlett and Tanganga.
The one thing I could rely on was watching the youth team play even when the first team were shit. Now you can't even do that because we have shut down avenues for them to progress here.
Think I might move to watching the women's team instead.
Forget about specifically this kid. This is a failure of the structure we can't let this keep happening in the way it has for Dilian Edwards and Noni Madueke. My hope is Brereton is tangentially part of this deal
Yes lets sell Markanday without a first team sniff while still wasting minutes on Dele/Doherty et al. Makes sense.
Just to put it in perspective Marakanday is almost exactly a year younger than Skipp. At his age last year Skipp was in the middle of an exceptional loan at Norwich and in the previous season Skipp had made 11 apps for the 1st team including Champ League.
Is it the club or Dilan's fault that he had not been more pushed forward earlier?
Is it the club or Dilan's fault that he had not been more pushed forward earlier?
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Oh my fucking life, the crying.
If you haven't grasped the concept of youth teams by now you never will.
Sign up as many as possible, some will be good enough to sell, some will be let go and 1 or 2 might make up the numbers in the 1st team. 1 in a generation is good enough to actually be first choice.
Campbell, King and Kane in the 25 years I have supported Spurs are in the last bucket.
There are 90something professional teams in England, all have academies. We are currently above 80 odd of those teams churning out kids. The odds of our kids being better than all of those is slim.
If you haven't grasped the concept of youth teams by now you never will.
Sign up as many as possible, some will be good enough to sell, some will be let go and 1 or 2 might make up the numbers in the 1st team. 1 in a generation is good enough to actually be first choice.
Campbell, King and Kane in the 25 years I have supported Spurs are in the last bucket.
There are 90something professional teams in England, all have academies. We are currently above 80 odd of those teams churning out kids. The odds of our kids being better than all of those is slim.
It's as much of a farce as paper straws. IE it's a "look at us, we're doing our bit" without ever really doing anything.
The kid wants to strike out on his own, good luck to him.
Worth reposting this
125 la liga games? That didnt sound right. So I checked. He started 30 games in la liga overall in 3 years and has around 20 something sub appearances.
I agree with the first part, but look at the fees we were getting 5, 6, 7 years ago compared to now.....
These days anything above 1m is virtually unheard of.
Must not be his favorite dream since he won’t extend his contract
Maybe he realises he needs to play football in the real world rather than just spend time playing with kids. At least he didnt go in the newspapers and cry about the managers like a rat does.
Been thinking for a while that we should look to diversify our portfolio & branch out into the lucrative horror market
Maybe convert the stadium into a London Dungeons type venue (When NFL & Pop concerts aren't happening ofcourse)
£300 Quid Levy masks on sale in the club shop , we'll be raking it in