Totally agree mate, we neglected the talent we possessed for sure, and I think we are only now begining to give a better message to youth coming through. It'll be a couple of years yet before we are where we should be.
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Totally agree mate, we neglected the talent we possessed for sure, and I think we are only now begining to give a better message to youth coming through. It'll be a couple of years yet before we are where we should be.
So true.
And our youth management continues to be poor - we seem to be ok until about age 16, but after that it starts going downhill and if anything accelerates downhill after aged 18.
This year for example we lost possibly our best 2 youngsters (Meghoma and Amo-Ameyaw) aged 16 to Southampton - likely due to likely lack of future opportunity at Spurs (reason given by Madeuke in an interview after leaving Spurs) as older talents fail to get loans or first team chances and/or poorer financial package ....... both better at Southampton.
Harvey White has now sat on the Spurs bench and/or played u21 football for 2 years after a decent loan at Portsmouth and is now aged 21. Good centre midfield player with wand of a left foot (but can cross from right) with good record of goals and assists plus possibly best set piece taker at Spurs. But he's missed out on playing experience ........ so will he be loaned out in January to get experience or get first team minutes ? Chances are he's going to be our next loss - I fully understand the argument that he might not make it, but why waste his time and talent by not giving him a chance to show what he can do and then make a decision ?
Its evident by tracking youth players that pretty much within a year or two of Kane breaking through into first team that our youth set up started to be in decline - we don't get as many top youngsters joining us and those that do join us are not breaking through.
A simple yard-stick is we went 5 years with both our u18 and u21 sides not losing to Woolwich and, in fact probably 80% of the time, beating them. That stopped about 5 years ago, and these days a win over the old enemy at either u18 or u21 is maybe once every 2 or 3 years.
The only way out of the mess, is to change a number of the managers/coaches of youth, maybe review pay structures, certainly recruitment, and certainly player development both via loans and elsewhere.
To have a full 25 man squad for UEFA we need 4 Club trained players in the squad. Currently we have Kane, Skipp, Tanganga and Austin (3rd GK) ....... there's a danger we will not be able to find 4 players good enough to be first team squad players if the academy revamp is left too much longer.
Are we still over-rating him for one decent thing he did in a whole 70 mins, which the keeper should have fucking saved anyway?
Yeah I thought it was more Hugo's fault (positioning) than Edwards scoring a worldie. It trickles in, it's not a 25 yard thunderbolt.
Lol@some of the hyperbole because he can fucking dribble btw.
Star maturing? He's 24 in just over a month and is still built like a teenager. Mini Messi? Yeah, alright, whatever...not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath IMO.
Take the sell on % and move on ffs.
Star maturing? He's 24 in just over a month and is still built like a teenager. Mini Messi? Yeah, alright, whatever...not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath IMO.
Take the sell on % and move on ffs.
no no no
you slag off the players we have in the first team squad, not the ones that we sold because they weren't good enough to make the team better
come on chap, you need to up your game here, you're an old sweat - you should know the form by now.
trickles in? In the same way that Kane's shots "trickle in"?
If a shot goes in off the post, then fair play to the shooter. Kane trains to hit just inside the post with shots along the deck, they are the hardest for a keeper to stop.
I mean it wasn't really fired in with any venom. It just rolls in from a long way out. It's on target, hit well but it wasn't a goal you'd expect to concede.
Lol. Lloris was poor for the goal, the poor shot you're defending was far too weak for the distance it came from.
The American broadcast studio crew (Thierry Henry, Clint Dempsey, Jamie Carragher and Peter Schmeichel) were not particularly impressed with Hugo's effort here.
He scored a Messi-eque goal
He'd have been clattered to hell about 3 times in the PL in that passage of play, though.He scored a Messi-eque goal
Very fine, goal, though. Hope he stays in Portugal/Spain and finds great success.
Surprised nobody from a bigger league has taken a punt on him.
But maybe that’s because he’s found his level.
But maybe that’s because he’s found his level.
Sporting probably asking for more than he's worth because he's trained in England and because they only get 65% of any fee. Don't see anyone ever activating his £52m release clause.
Edwards sofre acidente de viação a caminho da Academia de Alcochete
Inglês ia treinar com o restante grupo esta manhã
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Got in a traffic accident on his way to training today. The article on Portuguese doesn't seem to describe exactly what happened but it involved at least one more car and Edward's car flipped over on the side of the road.
No serious injuries according to the article, but he is going to be observed by Sporting staff.
Yeah, but how much rubbish was in his vehicle?Edwards sofre acidente de viação a caminho da Academia de Alcochete
Inglês ia treinar com o restante grupo esta manhã
Got in a traffic accident on his way to training today. The article on Portuguese doesn't seem to describe exactly what happened but it involved at least one more car and Edward's car flipped over on the side of the road.
No serious injuries according to the article, but he is going to be observed by Sporting staff.
I keep seeing photos / videos of rolled Range Rovers.
Looks like another one….. what’s that all about???
Looks like another one….. what’s that all about???