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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8820 on: July 07, 2020, 06:24:14 PM »
It’s shit that on Thursday, Man U will field Rashford and Greenwood from their youth system. We have Davis and Vassilev. The gap in quality of products coming out of our system vs the likes of Man U or Chelsea is frightening.

You can't really say Vassilev is a product of our academy system, though. He only joined in 2018.

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« Reply #8821 on: July 07, 2020, 06:24:20 PM »
It’s shit that on Thursday, Man U will field Rashford and Greenwood from their youth system. We have Davis and Vassilev. The gap in quality of products coming out of our system vs the likes of Man U or Chelsea is frightening.

In fairness, you have excluded our best homegrown player. One who, by all accounts, they are desperate to sign.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8822 on: July 07, 2020, 06:34:03 PM »
It’s shit that on Thursday, Man U will field Rashford and Greenwood from their youth system. We have Davis and Vassilev. The gap in quality of products coming out of our system vs the likes of Man U or Chelsea is frightening.

In fairness, you have excluded our best homegrown player. One who, by all accounts, they are desperate to sign.

I haven't really. Jack is taken for granted now given he's 24 and is the only product we have produced that has gone on to be anything like we hoped for playing us, and not someone else. Man U have two forwards that are just banging in the goals so my comment was more specifically around comparing us vs them in that position. Outside of Jack have we produced anyone of really note in the past 10 years? And we've had one paper some very decent youth players who have all ended up in the lower divisions. The best being Albrighton and after that Bannan I suppose. Even Cahill left us over 12 years ago now. Who am I missing?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8823 on: July 07, 2020, 06:35:07 PM »
Barry?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8824 on: July 07, 2020, 06:35:09 PM »
It’s shit that on Thursday, Man U will field Rashford and Greenwood from their youth system. We have Davis and Vassilev. The gap in quality of products coming out of our system vs the likes of Man U or Chelsea is frightening.

You can't really say Vassilev is a product of our academy system, though. He only joined in 2018.

yeh true. He joined from that US academy

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« Reply #8825 on: July 07, 2020, 06:36:06 PM »
Barry?

He made his debut for us in 1998. That's 23 bloody years ago.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8826 on: July 07, 2020, 06:36:28 PM »
Steven Davis has had a decent career. Going back a few years though.

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« Reply #8827 on: July 07, 2020, 06:47:37 PM »
Steven Davis has had a decent career. Going back a few years though.

Not bad for somebody that has the same number of international caps as Rivelino yet never played for a decent club after leaving the Villa.

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« Reply #8828 on: July 07, 2020, 07:34:49 PM »
Can't help but think Smith has got off lightly with games behind closed doors because Villa Park would have turned on him by now without a shadow of doubt.
How he's kept his job is beyond me, that 4 year deal was idiotic.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8829 on: July 07, 2020, 07:38:22 PM »
Yeah I’m sorry but we’re going down with a whimper, in yet another sequence of terrible results. There may be other reasons for our impending demise, but it’s impossible to argue Smith has done an acceptable job this year. He has to go.

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« Reply #8830 on: July 07, 2020, 07:42:23 PM »
I was talking to a blues fan at work today. He asked me, how come Dean Smith is still there, followed by, I'm glad he is though, of course.

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« Reply #8831 on: July 07, 2020, 08:06:42 PM »
Can't help but think Smith has got off lightly with games behind closed doors because Villa Park would have turned on him by now without a shadow of doubt.
How he's kept his job is beyond me, that 4 year deal was idiotic.

Heads, deliberately using the plural, need to roll. How did they think this season was panning out in an acceptable way?

Shitshow.

Just watch Leeds gain promotion and make a right go of it next year, unlike our feeble attempt.

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« Reply #8832 on: July 07, 2020, 08:17:11 PM »
yep another day of bitterness, anger and doubt. The 4 year deal was stupidity with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.

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« Reply #8833 on: July 07, 2020, 08:22:00 PM »
yep another day of bitterness, anger and doubt. The 4 year deal was stupidity with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.

I'm not too sure how much difference the contract he signed makes.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8834 on: July 07, 2020, 08:23:47 PM »
yep another day of bitterness, anger and doubt. The 4 year deal was stupidity with hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.

I'm not too sure how much difference the contract he signed makes.

It just means we'll either squander more millions paying him off or have to suffer this shit for 3 more years, personally I'd blow the cash.

 


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