10 May 2015 22:39:57
Eds banter just destroying those of you who have no sense of reality fantastic.

eds can you provide any information in regards to young guns who will be expected to feature more in regards to first team next year. Those who are deemed ready in a sense.thank you

{Ed001's Note - Sinclair, Ibe are obvious. The rest will be given the chance in preseason to move into the reckoning, as usual. The club are very poor at planning in advance to fit youngsters into the team and have been for a while. It usually just comes down to injury problems giving them a chance sadly. We don't even seem to have clear plans for their loans, as has been shown by the chaos around Ibe and the way Wisdom has been allowed to be hung out to dry by the king of crap football Pulis.}

1.) 11 May 2015
10 May 2015 23:39:56
We didn't loan wisdom to pulis, can't plan for him being taken on. And it jight get him use to training hard and not being guaranteed a first team place and Ibes seem to work well and we loaned him to a club that have faith in young British players, again not much wrong with it.

2.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 00:30:18
I was watching some youth team clips on YouTube (I know, not to reliable), but the likes of Ojo, Canos, Brannagan and Sinclair were awesome and I think should be given a chance especially Ojo, who is built like a brick house and scores with either foot. We need to do better with our youth players because we are throwing money out the window by investing in their development and never playing them

3.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 00:01:51
It might be a silly question - but is it Rodgers or in tandem with the academy would the planning be completed?

Who (as in team) would you say were the fore runners for this? I don't see many Chelsea or man City youngsters in their squads - I know a few years ago Man U were getting many millions for players being sold after a successful loan spell.

{Ed001's Note - it is in tandem with the academy, Rodgers will have a major say. If he wants them for the first team squad then they would be in the first team squad. To be fair Chelsea and Man City have only just started down the route of trying to bring players through from their academy, it takes roundabout 10 years for the full effect of changes there to show in the players coming through. There are a lot of players on the verge of breakthrough at Chelsea, such as Loftus-Cheek who faced us yesterday. City are a few years further back, but they are also getting there.

To be perfectly honest, there is not one team in the Prem that is getting it right. You could look at Spurs and say they have a couple of academy players in the team, but they got there purely because the club promoted Sherwood from a position within it and he brought through the outstanding prospects. Until then, they had not shown anything to suggest they would get in the team. Kane, for instance, had struggled badly on loan, he never looked close to being ready, but they stuck with him and the results are clear.}

4.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 00:40:26
Ed001 - we seem to have some luck with loans to Derby. Maybe Sinclair and Ojo would be served well doing 3 months there like Ibe? The Wigan loan didn't really work out as they were in free fall

{Ed001's Note - Wigan was an idiotic decision and Derby was ok, but it wasn't really working that well for Ibe, otherwise he wouldn't have been recalled, no matter how much we needed a forward. Loans are not the answer, they need to be given a route into our first team, not someone else's. It is far too difficult to ensure they get the right coaching and enough football.}

5.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 07:06:19
From what I can gather from commenting about our younger players on the official LFC website forum's, while I have been calling for them to be given a chance, its seems most fans disagree and want us to buy ready made 30 million pound players than give our young guys a chance. IMO, it's crazy that we don't look in our own backyard first.

6.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 09:09:32
Southampton has for some years had a very progressive youth and academy setup. Look at some of the youngsters they've nurtured, put into their first team and then sold on for vast sums . Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Bale to name a few.

7.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 09:20:23
Seems daft to invest in youth (it seems that's the policy as such) and not have a clear route for them to progress into first team.

We as fans obviously want success but personally I coach american football and the future of the sport is in grass roots in this country, developing kids to the way the club would like them and promoting within with youngsters with experience is easier than teaching adults who struggle to develop to a new sport or new system.
I get its completely different but the concept in a sense is the same.

8.) 11 May 2015
11 May 2015 09:35:37
Ibe was recalled because we wanted to strengthen in attack but uses the academy instead!