Former Academy Kids

I'm confused as to why we seem to have a fair few ex academy kids doing well at other clubs.
We don't seem to be willing to give them a chance here
Years ago I worked in sales and we'd have someone on the team not scoring so they'd go on another team, sometimes one the manager didn't need or expect to do so well and in that team they'd be scoring more than others on their team. The confidence that came from that usually helped them continue this form. Sometimes they'd feel like top man on that team and eventually start team leading which again brought more confidence.

Sometimes they just didn't fit the team they were on such as the style of the team leader, or the areas they went to, or they didn't get along with others in the team or didn't fit in. Or they'd not perform due to lack of confidence constantly comparing themselves to others doing better than them. When others were doing well people could 'Neg out', meaning others success made your own failures much more intense, again affecting performance.

Lots more reasons but I'd say in football it's the same. Sometimes you need a change of scenery or a fresh start, different environment, manager, team mates, a good run of form etc etc
 
I'm confused as to why we seem to have a fair few ex academy kids doing well at other clubs.
We don't seem to be willing to give them a chance here
Its made a lot of money in the last 10 - 12 years ?
but who has come through
Foden, and Rico,but Rico is not pushing on as most would like for whatever reason.
 
Our record with young players is terrible and it doesn’t matter how talented they are, they aren’t given a chance.

What’s even more daft is the players we are selling are better than the players we are signing. For example we bought Doku instead of giving palmer a chance on the wing. Players like harwood bellis and delap would get into our current team and probably improve us

I’ve given up with watching the academy games, knowing they’re only there to make us money
 
I'm confused as to why we seem to have a fair few ex academy kids doing well at other clubs.
We don't seem to be willing to give them a chance here
It’s a proper hindsite issue but I think we need to seriously review it when Viana arrives. No way we should be diving into the market without assessing the academy and it does feel that’s not been the case from the outside looking at just how many players have left and gone on to success elsewhere. Imagine if our squad was complimented with even half of:

Frimpong
Palmer
Lavia
Rogers
Harwood-Bellis
Delap
Garcia
Couto
Sancho (pinch of salt)

We really should be using the loan system far better in the future than we have been to blood players in the league before deciding to cash in.
 
It’s a proper hindsite issue but I think we need to seriously review it when Viana arrives. No way we should be diving into the market without assessing the academy and it does feel that’s not been the case from the outside looking at just how many players have left and gone on to success elsewhere. Imagine if our squad was complimented with even half of:

Frimpong
Palmer
Lavia
Rogers
Harwood-Bellis
Delap
Garcia
Couto
Sancho (pinch of salt)

We really should be using the loan system far better in the future than we have been to blood players in the league before deciding to cash in.

We were told that Pep wanted Mcatee to stay. Why ? Has he done something wrong as Pep perfers a knackered players over 30 !.

I can see Mcatee wanting out in January, he is seeing his old mates play well up and down the country.
 

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