Also, does PL think they're good enough, as he's just signed 5 young players as it is?
Donacien seemed the best of our young players to me, although Grealish is good and only about 17 I think.
Quote from: ADVILLAFAN on June 24, 2013, 08:53:18 AMDonacien seemed the best of our young players to me, although Grealish is good and only about 17 I think.I do like both of them and I think Grealish will become an excellent midfielder, he's got lovely quick feet and is deceptively quick, big comparison coming here but I think he can be like Seedorf if he progresses well, he just has an elegance about him that is very rare, particularly in English players.
Quote from: paul_e on June 24, 2013, 09:17:56 AMQuote from: ADVILLAFAN on June 24, 2013, 08:53:18 AMDonacien seemed the best of our young players to me, although Grealish is good and only about 17 I think.I do like both of them and I think Grealish will become an excellent midfielder, he's got lovely quick feet and is deceptively quick, big comparison coming here but I think he can be like Seedorf if he progresses well, he just has an elegance about him that is very rare, particularly in English players.Being a pedant but I think Grealish is Irish.Donacien is St. Lucian, can't think of any players we've had from there before.
Quote from: SoccerHQ on June 23, 2013, 06:11:40 PMDerrick Williams perhaps?He actually came on at QPR and was on the bench at the end of last season. You know Vlaar and especially Baker will miss games through injury next season.Baker's injuries are likely to be concussions with the way he keeps putting his head into places where others are kicking. I've thought for years that we don't get enough of our kids in decent season-long, playing most games, type of loans. Is that because we've been holding onto them (probably yes in recent years with such a small squad) or is it because clubs aren't particularly interested in some of them? For how well heralded our youth system is, their doesn't tend to be many individuals talents. Weimann's probably the only one of the recent batch. Our successes at youth levels tend to be because we're good at putting teams together at that level. I really hope we can raise the standard of individual talents as well building the teams and that we develop them ready for 1st team football by getting them one or two season long loans where they're playing regularly.
Derrick Williams perhaps?He actually came on at QPR and was on the bench at the end of last season. You know Vlaar and especially Baker will miss games through injury next season.
Quote from: OCD on June 23, 2013, 06:31:05 PMQuote from: SoccerHQ on June 23, 2013, 06:11:40 PMDerrick Williams perhaps?He actually came on at QPR and was on the bench at the end of last season. You know Vlaar and especially Baker will miss games through injury next season.Baker's injuries are likely to be concussions with the way he keeps putting his head into places where others are kicking. I've thought for years that we don't get enough of our kids in decent season-long, playing most games, type of loans. Is that because we've been holding onto them (probably yes in recent years with such a small squad) or is it because clubs aren't particularly interested in some of them? For how well heralded our youth system is, their doesn't tend to be many individuals talents. Weimann's probably the only one of the recent batch. Our successes at youth levels tend to be because we're good at putting teams together at that level. I really hope we can raise the standard of individual talents as well building the teams and that we develop them ready for 1st team football by getting them one or two season long loans where they're playing regularly. I've been saying for a long time that maybe the emphasis is wrong in our youth set up, too much stress on producing good youth teams that win trophies and not enough on developing top, mentally strong individual players with great technique. I'm not sure Southampton have won many youth competitions but they have managed to produce much better individual players over the last few years.