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The Spurs Youth Thread - 2018/19

shelfmonkey

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Why do you say that. Dele has struggled with injury for a while which has definitely affected his form. There's no indication that he is anything but professional off the pitch.

How would explain last season?
For the last two seasons he's played like his head is elsewhere.
 

G Ron

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Apparently Jack’s Mum has been after a loan for him for a few seasons now but the club won’t have any of it. Would be a real shame to lose him from what I hear from people who have watched / do watch him regularly, especially as he’s supported spurs since he was a kid.
 

IGSpur

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It's a good age group. I think it's more well rounded than the 01s who I felt were very attack heavy. This group seems better balanced.

They're missing a couple of good players like Carvalho, Cirkin, Livramento and Wood-Gordon who wasn't released by Boro but I think there's a lot of quality around the pitch.

Madueke has easily been the best player for me in this match
 
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Locotoro

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So apparently Onomah is it unlikely to play again this season according to Bruce. Season wrecked by injury.

What's the consensus? Opportunity passed and sell or one more season on loan to prove his worth?
 

dannythomas

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Saying that Poch believes in developing young homegrown talent is unfortunately not true. Apart from Winks nobody else has made the breakthrough via the Academy. Kane was already a regular. With all our injuries Skipp and KWP are hardly getting a look in and they are the only 2 even close.
 

spurs9

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windy did a good blog post on this fairly recently, i think he nails the feelings of many youth watchers in this particular excerpt:


i don't really want to go over old ground as this year's thread has mostly been free of such discussions, especially compared to the previous couple of years but you can't tell me that not a single one of our more attacking players have the correct attitude or mentality. windy's point about those players poch has involved as being hard-workers and the rest of it is true but i also think another factor is that they're safe, they can be relied on to not take risks and to usually make good(or again, safe) decisions, the more creative or perhaps talented players however take more risks and are more likely to lose the ball trying something. if i didn't really follow the academy i'd be thinking that the only type of player we produce are neat and tidy hard-working centre mids but that isn't really the case.

yesterday we were woefully short of attacking options but knowing the way poch works i never expected to see roles(for example) being involved, he doesn't really seem to care about the positions we have a need for but more works his way down the list of who he "trusts", so even if we didn't have lucas or llorente yesterday i bet it would have been marsh and bowden taking a place in the squad rather than an actual attacking player.
A lot of people are lauding Ajax for their youth system and rightly so, but only 1 player in their starting 11 was an attacking player (van der Beek) the other 4 were 3 defenders and a GK. Even on the bench, their 2 youth players were a CM and a full back.

I also see people using de Jong as an example of their youth system but they signed him when he was 17 and had already made 2 sub appearances in the Eredivisie for Willem and I know if that was a Spurs player, people in this thread wouldn't consider him a youth player.

I actually think their recruitment team doesn't get enough credit.
 

Tom Hep

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Our Under-15s beat Millwall 3-1 this morning. Dante Cassanova scored 2 and Max McKnight got an assist.
 
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Sweech

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Saying that Poch believes in developing young homegrown talent is unfortunately not true. Apart from Winks nobody else has made the breakthrough via the Academy. Kane was already a regular. With all our injuries Skipp and KWP are hardly getting a look in and they are the only 2 even close.
Kane was definitely not a regular.
 

beats1

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Kane was definitely not a regular.
Kane starting was definitely a regular squad player, shit at the end of the season he was playing more than Soldado. He started the last 6 games, scoring 3 in 6 appearances with 2 assist.

He was definitely considered a squad player. He played more premier league minutes in that little run in the second half of the season than Walker-Peters played has in his entire career
 
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Sweech

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Kane starting was definitely a regular squad player, shit at the end of the season he was playing more than Soldado. He started the last 6 games, scoring 3 in 6 appearances with 2 assist.

He was definitely considered a squad player. He played more premier league minutes in that little run in the second half of the season than Walker-Peters played has in his entire career
The problem I have is six games is hardly enough to quantify calling someone a starter and considering anything that Sherwood did as the new norm for the squad also boggles the mind.
 

beats1

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The problem I have is six games is hardly enough to quantify calling someone a starter and considering anything that Sherwood did as the new norm for the squad also boggles the mind.
No one said he was a starter, but a regular.

If Kane, hadn't become a starter:whistle: for those last 6 games and scored 3 goals, he wouldn't be given a chance to be a 3rd striker. Plus it puts pressure on the new manager when the academy player has 3 goals in 6 starts whilst the first choice striker in the same season had 6 goals in 22 starts
 
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