- Jan 20, 2013
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For a 17 year old, Skipp looks fantastic.
This kid is something special. I missed the Barca game, and our commentators spent a considerable amount of time during the early stages of the Milan broadcast commenting on how impressed they were with young Skipp against Barca. Stunning composure, vision, awareness, passing range and precision, and even the ability to beat his man on the dribble.
A lot of the kids did very well (KWP is just great, I still wish we’d have just promoted him to 2nd choice last season), and the game was a lot of fun to watch. Was really impressed with how ferociously the kids pressed, and how much they seemed to really understand Poch’s system. Amos in particular seemed to really get it, and suggested to me why Poch seemed to favor him in these friendlies. His passing was safe and tidy, but he was a monster at creating scenarios to win the ball back.
I get that people strongly disagree with the team crossing the Atlantic and playing so many games this close to the start of the season, but my god if it isn’t fun watching our tremendously talented kids on ESPN lay it to expensive European signings.