Right, nothing has come home to roost at all yet.
I bet Kane plays out the last year of his deal and Conte's option is activated for a doomed, loveless Europa League campaign.
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Transfers January 2023 Transfer Thread. The Big One
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I bet Kane plays out the last year of his deal and Conte's option is activated for a doomed, loveless Europa League campaign.
Last Tango In Haringey
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I doubt anyone we let leave at a young age would ever come back to us. We didn't value them.
Don't believe we "let" him go at all.
Our structure failed him. Simple as that. Pochettino was so dreadful at creating a path way to the first team for our best youth players that our most talented pretty much up and walked for better opportunities.
We failed him.
And yet there is this crazy belief Poch would suddenly improve our youth set up.
But let's be serious here, Poch was sacked in 2019. This kid would have been barely 17. There aren't many 17 year olds playing for CL finalists.
I’ve ordered the shovel !!
It wasnt that he wasn't given a chance at 16. It was that he had seen what came before him with talented young players and saw it was clear his development would have been hindered if he stayed.
No loans, no competitive football, no pathway. Nothing.
And people still want Poch back and still believe he is better for youth than Conte.
What talented young players? Who has gone on to prove us wrong? Walker-Peters the only possibility. Edwards was talented but lazy and the academy chiefs didnt want him rewarded. He played Winks, he played Skipp Carter-Vickers and Onomah not good enough. You cant magic up talent that isnt there.
Yeh, well a large chunk of those people would also tell you that Poch was good at developing youth/young players......
Not true though.
Can she play RWB ?
This is the catch 22. You can't make kids good at football.
Moaning at coaches for not playing youth isn't the problem. Most coaches know if the kids are good enough and give them games.
Conte has played Gil, Sarr, Skipp, White, Tanganga, Devine in his time here.
It's up to them to prove/keep proving they're worthy of game time.
Probably better than Royal
Gil and Sarr were signed for big money and more advanced. Skipp was established. Devine has played about 1 minute. People need to realise our youth team has been poor to utter shite for a while. Most nowhere near good enough.
You fail to develop youngsters correctly and they're going to have a hard time. Imagine if we actually loaned KWP our at a younger age instead of wasting crucial development years having him train with our first team.
Off the back of absolute horrendous youth development it's a testament to their ability that KWP is a consistent Prem player and Edwards and Madueke went on to play Champions League football.
Now imagine if they were actually developed properly. Given game time and proper loans to see how they can hope?
Who knows.
Do you think Chelsea just leave their best youth drowning playing youth football? Or do they try and get them to play competitive men's football as young as possible?
Luckily, we're doing right by Dane. Let's not fail Devine too.
"what talented young players" is such a lazy argument. If they didn't live up to their talent, then we've failed them. We haven't developed them properly. We've not provided the tools needed to be a success at this club or elsewhere.
Really well (with) balls?