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A recent Spurs game had Kane, Skipp, Winks and Tanganga starting.Just a reminder that very few academy players actually do make the "grade".
Here's the Barca team that won the UEFA Youth League in 2014. Only Adama Traore "made it".
PS! It is in Spanish but one can easily recognize the names.
¿Dónde está la generación de Adama que fue campeona de Europa?
Adama Traoré esta cerca de volver al Barcelona. El internacional español salió de la Masía siendo aún un chaval y se ha ido formando en Inglaterra. Adama perteneció a una generaciówww.marca.com
Bump,Portsmouth v Charlton @ 19.45 on Sky Tonight
I'd guess Nile John will be in squad, either starting or available on the bench ?
Harvey White attracting attention from several clubs for a loan out :
Championship - Hull, Luton
League 1 - Sunderland, Portsmouth (where he was last season).
Just a reminder that very few academy players actually do make the "grade".
Here's the Barca team that won the UEFA Youth League in 2014. Only Adama Traore "made it".
PS! It is in Spanish but one can easily recognize the names.
¿Dónde está la generación de Adama que fue campeona de Europa?
Adama Traoré esta cerca de volver al Barcelona. El internacional español salió de la Masía siendo aún un chaval y se ha ido formando en Inglaterra. Adama perteneció a una generaciówww.marca.com
Charlton said on their website that Nile John and Juan Castillo (young Chelsea LB i think) are both not involved as they continue to settle inNile John not in the Charlton squad for the TV game.
Indeed.It really is quite insane how narrow the path to the top in football is, and how many that are investing their entire childhood and youth in trying to achieve their dreams and ambitions. That is something I wish more so-called supporters would be mindful of while sitting on their fat asses and talking about players in top clubs as being "shite" just because they aren't quite living up to their potential.
Good post.At present we regularly have 4 from our youth team playing in the first team. That’s a very good return and a lot better than most. Jaffa and Winks might be gone in the summer though.
Liverpool seem to have a policy of buying 16-18 yr olds from other clubs which has proved to be successful. Looks like Hitchen is tasked with a similar job.
Japhet TangangaGood post.
Who is Jaffa? Tango? LOL.
When a club recruits around 12-15 16 yr olds every year to play in the youth teams, I am sure they don’t think that many of these players are going to be good enough for their first team or even to be a professional footballer. They have to recruit these numbers every year just to be able to put out teams. They can just recruit the best they can and with luck might get an odd first team player out of it, or be able to sell some of them for decent money.
With human beings it cannot be an exact science . There just isn’t the room in squads for many of these boys to make it at top level.
Must be quite a shock for boys who have been top dog in their school team to be confronted by a number of players who are far better than they are.
At present we regularly have 4 from our youth team playing in the first team. That’s a very good return and a lot better than most. Jaffa and Winks might be gone in the summer though.
Liverpool seem to have a policy of buying 16-18 yr olds from other clubs which has proved to be successful. Looks like Hitchen is tasked with a similar job.
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