Sorry I fail to see the relevence of this picture here?
Walker Peters had been training with the first team for a few years when Poch was in charge, he spent approx 3 years learning from them and gaining experience, this is part of his nurturing that all players need to go through so agree with that but it's pointless if you're not gaining experience on the pitch, that's how you cut your teeth and hone your skills and mature as a person and a player.
Scunthorpe? Why would you assume we'd loan him to Scunthorpe?
Because it literally is...there's 1000 of kids who go out on loan and improve and guess what they more often that not become better players. Do you think Skipp would be the player he is now if he hadn't been at Norwich (not Scunthorpe) for a year?
There's an overwhelming majority of evidence that suggests that when you play you get better, I don't know why you're denying this.
More to the point I'm not only advocating him going out on loan, what I'm saying is we should have used the loan system or just played him consistently.
Well it's hughly unlikely that he's going to be picked for the WC and I think you probably know that, but that's due to the fact that he has an abundence of top class players who are going to be picked in front of him, that's not his fault. The fact that he's even picked and gained his caps over Lamptey, Wan Bissaka, Livramento, Max Aarons, Ben Johnson tells you he's jumped right to the front of the queue which is a long way from where he was a couple of years ago.
So you're saying that Poch's double training sessions is better preparation for players as opposed to actually playing matches? What other young players he used this exact same method on actually improved and made it into the first team, in fact what players can you think of in world football who weren't wonderkids actually improved by not playing matches?
It's funny you keep mentioning that we would have potentially loaned him to Scunthorpe or Leyton Orient yet we loaned him to Southampton and instantly improved as a result.
Well unfortunately the overwhelming evidence suggests that Poch wasn't planning anything for him and was more than likely to use him on the odd occasion due to injuries or suspension.
2017/18 he played 3 PL matches, 2018/19 he played 6, all this while signing Aurier after letting go of Walker and signing Foyth who was a CB then converting him to a RB, please make it make sense...
To be very clear, my issue isn't that Onomah was sold, like KWP by the time it came to selling them clearly their time was up and had to move on, my issue is the way they were treated, Onomah again is another one who either should have got more playing time or if his attitude wasn't up to it gone somewhere to play more matches, even if Poch didn't think he would make it at Spurs, it's would ahave been beneficial for all parties for him to go on loan regardless.
With KWP is was just history repeating itself which was the frustrating part.
The irony is that people have a go at Jose for mistreating younger players but he had the right idea, sending Skipp and Sess to other clubs to gain experience and came back better players, you can guarantee that both players wouldnt' have had that opportunity if Poch stuck around.
Point is whether he was MOTM or not he played well, normally when you play well it earns you more matches, the only other match he started that season was against Leicester where he got 2 assists.
The following season his first match was against Barcelona and bar his mistake for the goal recovered well in that match, he also played 90 mins against Bournemouth and got 3 assists if you recall.
I say that's a player more than ready to play more or at least play more than 9 matches in 76.
You 'highly doubt' hmmm well you're clearly just guessing here for the sake of your argument.
Again not really sure why you're suggesting he would have played in league 1 when he literally went on loan to Southampton.
Southampton fans were estatic with him when he initially went on loan to them:
It's funny you say that the calibre of player is better at Spurs yet he would have been our best RB at Spurs last season and this season, looks like we've come full circle here