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I don’t know if that is recruitment, talent development or pipeline management honestly. I mean Tanganga couldn’t sniff the first team until a couple months ago. Now he may be considered our second best CB. Skipp is still raw but he should clearly be getting more minutes at DM since we have no one else.I'd agree but from what I have seen in the past 5 years, Woolwich, City, Chelsea, United and Liverpool have radically improved their academies and youth recruitment, both facility and results wise...
Woolwich and Chelsea have had a huge number of prospects perform well recently, and there is no reason our results shouldn't be similar considering we share recruitment pools for the most part.
So I’m getting:
Utd, Lingard, Rashford, Greenwood, Mctominay, James
Chelsea, James, Odoi, Cheek, Abraham
Woolwich, Willock, Holding
Liverpool, Arnold
City, Foden
Leicester, Grey, Vardy
Spurs, Kane, Winks, Skipp, Tanaganga
What am I missing here?
I saw on netflix that barca look at 8,000 kids a year for 50 places.
You forgot some players here but ok. More interessting for me is the current situation and this is a bigger concern. If you compare the youngsters from the last 3 years:So I’m getting:
Utd, Lingard, Rashford, Greenwood, Mctominay, James
Chelsea, James, Odoi, Cheek, Abraham
Woolwich, Willock, Holding
Spurs, Kane, Winks, Skipp, Tanaganga
What am I missing here?
Our hit rate over the last decade is probably similar to other clubs of our size and stature. I would say the only outlier is Chelsea.
Good to know....even less to rave about other clubsJames wasn't United'd, he came from Swansea and Vardy wasn't from Leicester's he came from the lower leagues.
We used to do this all the time pre-Poch. The issue was we stopped loaning players out so they stopped getting minutes and exposure to help facilitate a sale. This is not an academy issue and I don't expect it to continue.The issue is not just getting good young players through but getting decent players through so they can be sold if they don't work out. Woolwich managed to flog Iwobi for 30m+ and now they have Saka/Nelson/Wilock/Nketiah/Smith-Rowe these are just the ones who have broken out at the moment... a few of them will work out while the others are already developed enough to fetch a decent fee and essentially this is what we need.
I'd agree but from what I have seen in the past 5 years, Woolwich, City, Chelsea, United and Liverpool have radically improved their academies and youth recruitment, both facility and results wise...Our hit rate over the last decade is probably similar to other clubs of our size and stature. I would say the only outlier is Chelsea.
It pains me to see it and to say it. Liverpool, Chelsea, Woolwich, Leicester - all bringing in youngsters from their academy who seem very quickly to be up to the task and make a real positive contribution to the team. Why not us?
Who was the last real success from the academy before Harry Kane? Ledley? Indeed, in my lifetime there have been very few stars - Kane, King, Hoddle, Hughton, Perryman. There must be more but I can't think of any ...
Mostly we seem to churn out journeymen players who are simply not good enough in terms of skill, athleticism, attitude - or all 3 - for a top Premier League squad and are destined for life fighting relegation at best, more likely in the lower Championship downwards.
Like Steven Caulker, Tommy Carroll, Jake Livermore, Ryan Mason, Cameron Carter-Vickers, To be joined soon by Harry Winks and probably Oliver Skipp.
Why are we developing footballers while others are developing superstars?
I would agree with this...there seems to be this belief that the rest of the PL is producing star players and Spurs haven't. This isn't meant as a shot (ours is so much worse) but look at the English national team. There's not a ton of established talent developed in English academies. It's mostly guys like Alexander-Arnold and Hudson-Odoi that have maybe meaningful club appearances and are dazzling with their potential. But we've seen plenty of glittering young english footballers who never actually realize that potential. Woolwich used to specialize in those players.Players like Kane is a once in a generation find. The English talent aint so much and we comete with many other clubs for it.
It pains me to see it and to say it. Liverpool, Chelsea, Woolwich, Leicester - all bringing in youngsters from their academy who seem very quickly to be up to the task
Why are we developing footballers while others are developing superstars?