28 Jul 2015 20:22:04
It seems no team wants to wait and develop their own young players. This job has been passed on to mid level clubs . R.Madrid always used to buy players now Barca is also following the same route Even A.Madrid has bought a lot of first team players this year Same is happening in Series A. Bundesliga used to be an exception but even B.munich there is slowly filing up with readymade players. As for EPL Mourinho always bought players ready for the first team and same with M.city . Now after Sir Alex is gone even Manu is slowly shunting all young players. Only A.Wenger is still bringing out young players but then he had the advantage of being in the job for the longest period of time. So honestly I cannot fully blame B.Rodgers to buy outside players. He is doing what every other manager is doing. Although I would like to see atleast one young player being given chance every year.
28 Jul 2015 21:08:13
To be fair LVG has given Blackett and McNair game time last season along with Wilson. The problem is within football that waiting for the young players to develop seems to be a thing in the past. Clubs will try to buy the best players they can for fear of not being able to compete with the elite teams.
Just look as us last season with Di Maria. That says it all
29 Jul 2015 02:33:06
Biggest problem is the jump from academy to a top tier PL club is meaningful, very few can make it without being shown a great deal of faith and patience which is a rare commodity when chasing top 4. Hence one of the reasons for loans.
{Ed001's Note - but loans do not improve the players in the same way. It removes a lot of the pressure. Look at the difference with Kane at Spurs, the improvements he has made just because he is given a chance to play. The step up is not that huge, he was not one of their better academy players, yet look at him now. The problem is that the difference is not in quality, no matter what people say, it is about mentality, they already have the technique to step up, it is just getting their mentality right that takes time. You can not tell if they have the right mentality until they are playing for the first team and you get to watch them and see how they grow and develop as a person. Sending them out on loan removes most of the issues that affect that and so they are not developing in the right way. That is why the ones that make the most progress are those that are sold or get given a chance. Matic was always good enough technically at Chelsea, they knew that, that was never an issue, but he had to be sold to grow as a person and become the top class player he is now. Loaning players out is a waste of time. It would benefit everyone if the loan market was shut down and clubs had to develop their players properly.}
29 Jul 2015 13:58:38
I agree totally, Ed. this idea that our players shouldn`t get a chance in the first team for every other reason under the son BUT BR`s unwillingness to play them is hogwash. People talk about loans. They fail to mention that the managers at these clubs need to win games too and they have to play their best players and if they are having a bad season, our loan players will NOT get the chance because said manager has to play his best players to keep his job. Where does that leave our youth player on loan there? Then these same people will come back and say that he must have been rubbish because he could not get a game whereas forgetting the other circumstances that led to it. Your example of Kane is a good one. He was given chances in the EL games where he scored goals there and once he did that, Poch had no choice but to play him because Adebayor and Soldado were aweful for the results we now know about. How would they have known Kane would pan out if they never played him or was Spurs not chasing top like us as well? NONSENSE!!BR doesn`t like our youth which is why he buys from other clubs and gives them the chances our youth deserve only to find out they are wors than the one`s we have and the examples are numerous.What have these players done to earn a chance over our own youth?Based on some of their perfs, NOTHING which is why Sinclair is off. Whether he will be good for us or not we`ll never know because he was never given chances to prove us wrong or right and I`m afraid others will see the same fate as long as BR is still here. He doesn`t even watch the academy games so how can he make oa formative judgement on who will make it and who would not? TIme to stop with the flimsy excuses for our youth not getting a chance because it`s getting hold. Poch gave Kane his chance even though he was supposed to get top 4 so what has been BR`s excuse for not doing it willingly for 3 yrs except forced to? He is not interested and that is a fact because if he was, he would be at the games and would be giving them chances instead of buying inferior youth from other countries and clubs.