Zin 'messiah' Zimmer
Well-Known Member
Reading Frank Lampards comments on Monday regarding the Chelsea academy, I couldn't help but envisage the predicament our academy may be in in say 2/3 years.
I like to think were all savvy enough to have realized that with ADUG the days of churning out youth players into the first team will take a different dynamic, sure some will break through, but the idealism of the academy is to promote grass roots for 'the local lad', to nurture them from whipper snapper to fully fledged professionals. Will we take the Rag root of handing sporadic first team appearances to the youth, then cashing in at over inflated prices just because of the prestige of where they are coming from? NB Kieran Richardson. Or do we take the route, which looks increasingly more likely given the past 12 months, of buying at the top of the spectrum 'the creme de la creme' of emerging talent?
Its fantastic the position we find ourselves in, truly is, and with every positive someone can find a negative, just the appreciation we feel for 'one' of our own could soon be a distant memory, deep down we know this but our determination as fans, especially us blues, is to crave success at all costs, we've waited long enough granted, reality is though that the infrastructure of the first team squad will soon dictate it nigh on impossible to break through, British players are simply inferior technically, though academies like ours have been bridging the gap slowly, all in vain it seems however.
I like to think were all savvy enough to have realized that with ADUG the days of churning out youth players into the first team will take a different dynamic, sure some will break through, but the idealism of the academy is to promote grass roots for 'the local lad', to nurture them from whipper snapper to fully fledged professionals. Will we take the Rag root of handing sporadic first team appearances to the youth, then cashing in at over inflated prices just because of the prestige of where they are coming from? NB Kieran Richardson. Or do we take the route, which looks increasingly more likely given the past 12 months, of buying at the top of the spectrum 'the creme de la creme' of emerging talent?
Its fantastic the position we find ourselves in, truly is, and with every positive someone can find a negative, just the appreciation we feel for 'one' of our own could soon be a distant memory, deep down we know this but our determination as fans, especially us blues, is to crave success at all costs, we've waited long enough granted, reality is though that the infrastructure of the first team squad will soon dictate it nigh on impossible to break through, British players are simply inferior technically, though academies like ours have been bridging the gap slowly, all in vain it seems however.