Confirmation from a very pleased Brandon Austin himself (with a few clips from the match of some saves), re-tweeting a 'no entry' sign to their goalmouth to record Austin's 'clean sheet' - hopefully the start of many !
Great save
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Confirmation from a very pleased Brandon Austin himself (with a few clips from the match of some saves), re-tweeting a 'no entry' sign to their goalmouth to record Austin's 'clean sheet' - hopefully the start of many !
This is a fascinating interview of David Webb discussing recruitment/academies, sharing his experiences from his time at Bournemouth, Ostersunds FK, Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton, and Huddersfield Town. Covering all levels from youth academies, colleges and senior teams about becoming more deliberate about the types of players they are bringing in, focusing a fair bit on the characteristic assessment.
For the moment at least, evidenced by the number of them that have not broken into ”top-flight” (football team/league), I’d say it would have to be on account they aren't good enough.Interesting interview
Would have loved interviewer to have asked him re his Tottenham days with Poch , 'ok after all these checks you have done on these young players to 'qualify' them to go to first team training, why do you think so few of those players made more than a couple of appearances for Spurs. What went wrong, - were the players not good enough, selection process wrong or Poch too fussy ?''
Just to satisfy my OCD these 3 guys who were on last year's retained list left earlier in the season:Players Released List issued by PL
Tottenham Hotspur
Clarke, Rayan Romario (Contract extension)
Dinzeyi, Jonathan Toko Lema (Contract extension)
Hinds, Tariq Devontae Aaron
Patterson, Phoenix MacLaren (Contract extension)
Statham, Maxwell Louis (Contract extension)
Vertonghen, Jan (Contract extension)
Vorm, Michel Armand (Contract extension)
Binks, Luis Thomas |
Oakley-Boothe, Tashan |
Tainio, Maxi |
For the moment at least, evidenced by the number of them that have not broken into ”top-flight” (football team/league), I’d say it would have to be on account they aren't good enough.
But there are others who we know lacked the character required of him namely Bentaleb and Edwards. Then whilst he had already played significant mins for us before Poch but not cemented a place there was Townsend who arguably fell in to both stalls (but was humble enough to acknowledge his error).
There isn't a single player who’s proven him wrong yet.
There isn't a single player who’s proven him wrong yet.
How are you mate? It's been a while!Milos going wasn't good news at the time, don;t know how he's been getting on more recently
Milos going wasn't good news at the time, don;t know how he's been getting on more recently
Yeah I agree with this.A lot of kids seem to 'peak' at say 18-21 and if they don't feel they will make it at the club they joined as youths, then move to a different club, and for whatever reasons fail to develop from there.
Given the England youth sides which were beating all their european equivalents in W?C's etc, far to few have 'made it' later, suggesting that Spurs and indeed other clubs have not developed those players well.
Worthwhile looking at recent England squads as well - many of them 'made it' professionally at EFL clubs before moving to PL - Kane is an exception that way, which I would suggest shows up the flaws in the way PL clubs actually develop those age group of players.
Bentaleb though is a perfect example. I loved this kid. I loved his attitude and what he brought to the team all at the age of 19! Poch 100% loved him too, reflected in that he took pre-match or half-time team talks, one of them was giant Woolwich! But knowing what we know now we were absolutely right to sell him. The wider good of the team's holistic development is what is at stake here if you are trying to build an ethic everyone has to be on the same page. This is a challenge for a kid though, really difficult to get the balance right.Veljkovic joined Werder Bremen and has played over 100 Bundesilga games as CB or DM - we lost him for circa £500k.
Had we kept both Veljkovic and Bentaleb as squad players for example we wouldn't have needed to buy squad players such as Wimmer, who required considerable coaching before moving onto Stoke.
Equally a number of bargain buys such as N'Jie, Nkoudou, Foyth were not better than academy players.
Bentaleb though is a perfect example. I loved this kid. I loved his attitude and what he brought to the team all at the age of 19! Poch 100% loved him too, reflected in that he took pre-match or half-time team talks, one of them was giant Woolwich! But knowing what we know now we were absolutely right to sell him. The wider good of the team's holistic development is what is at stake here if you are trying to build an ethic everyone has to be on the same page. This is a challenge for a kid though, really difficult to get the balance right.
The best example I can give is the holistic approach the All Blacks have around team ethic, it's simply underlined by a "no dickheads" policy. Highly talented people have fallen by the wayside.
Bentaleb has held is hands up though:I understand that point of view.
But Bentaleb had played for about half a season under Sherwood, and then a full season under Poch, and seemingly continually growing in confidence, experience and appreciation by his team mates as a fairly key part of the team/squad. But suddenly a 180 degree turn in terms of attitude from Bentaleb if rumours are true.
Now I know teenagers/young adults can be 'stroppy', and Bentaleb at about 19/20 falls into that category - but that's the bit I do not understand happening in a well run club, good man management skills etc, it shouldn't have become a crisis as it did.
Think part of the issue was Poch rarely rotating the squad, keeping the same team and rarely using the squad - which ultimately was why the Spurs team always appeared knackered at the end of Poch reign.