From what I've read, the story appears to be unfortunately accurate. Maybe a good thing it's been highlighted though, as it may force our hand to get things right.
How can it be just down to pellegrini when we have a Director of Football sitting above him?
Leicester too.this must be a huge part of it. Right now both the Arse and Spuds are showing a lot of faith in young 19-22 y.o. players. The positives youth bring are energy, fight and optimism, things those above us in the table show plenty of.
I’m surprised you’re so clear cut in thinking toward Pellers. He has done a bit more this year than he did in the last 2 IMO.I don’t have any stats but if you assume Nacho and Roberts are EDS lads then this must be one of the best seasons for playing kids in the last 10 years (multiple cup games helps). And of those that we have released over his 3 years at the club none look like massive losses but that said some are having decent careers (Gudietti played against Barcelona last night).
However I do agree that there have been many missed opportunities. The number of times we have been comfortably leading games with kids on the bench and they have not come on is disappointing.
According to the despicable Daily Fail, it would seem like no-one will be promoted from the academy and that a batch of our U16s are stalling on signing contracts because the arrival of Pep will mean a huge spending spree and that the kids will get pushed into obscurity. There would have been some credibility in the story if names had been mentioned, but not surprisingly there were none.
Yes, i get that but pellegrini's overall performance is the responsibility of the DoF. They made a big song and dance about taking a holistic approach which would have included integration between the academy and the first team squad. If they were serious about than then The DoF should have been holding Pellegrini to account. Clearly he hasn't.Cos Pellegrini picks the team and has the final say, as all managers will do. Not the DoF.
Roberts' inclusion is generous, considering he was a £10m signing and has made a combined total of about 60 minutes over three appearances. Nacho was an absolute no brainer - genuinely no credit from my end for getting that one right. Kid's a bona fida potential genius.
Other than that its been as poor as ever with a real lack of foresight. The main reason we have no fucking idea who, if anyone, can do it at first team level given this injury crisis as we never tried them in easier cup games or brought them on for 30 minutes here and there.
Yes, i get that but pellegrini's overall performance is the responsibility of the DoF. They made a big song and dance about taking a holistic approach which would have included integration between the academy and the first team squad. If they were serious about than then The DoF should have been holding Pellegrini to account. Clearly he hasn't.
That may well be the case, but it's piss poor. Pellegrini has taken us backwards over the last two years and Txiki has watched/let him do it. That's why I don't think it's all down to Pellers. There seems to be very little old fashioned performance management going on.Yes, and we all know why MP was hanging around, and also why he's leaving, with this being one of the reasons amongst others. They could say what the want, but we all know this was just a stop gap appointment until the big one.
I’m surprised you’re so clear cut in thinking toward Pellers. He has done a bit more this year than he did in the last 2 IMO.I don’t have any stats but if you assume Nacho and Roberts are EDS lads then this must be one of the best seasons for playing kids in the last 10 years (multiple cup games helps). And of those that we have released over his 3 years at the club none look like massive losses but that said some are having decent careers (Gudietti played against Barcelona last night).
However I do agree that there have been many missed opportunities. The number of times we have been comfortably leading games with kids on the bench and they have not come on is disappointing.
Roberts' inclusion is generous, considering he was a £10m signing and has made a combined total of about 60 minutes over three appearances. Nacho was an absolute no brainer - genuinely no credit from my end for getting that one right. Kid's a bona fida potential genius.
Other than that its been as poor as ever with a real lack of foresight. The main reason we have no fucking idea who, if anyone, can do it at first team level given this injury crisis as we never tried them in easier cup games or brought them on for 30 minutes here and there.
really ??? roberts played about 40 minutes ? for us and nacho is is a no brainer as others have said. they haven't been given a chance at all imo a few minutes at the end of a game isn't a chance - evans an example. even when we have been winning comfortably he still doesnt bring them on. I'm hoping with pep in charge they finally get given a proper chance to show how good they are