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Jackett is an astute operator. Would be a tremendous move for Jack.
Dele Alli seems to have binned all that.
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.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/48105557
u17 game here, some talented players missing from the squad including Cirkin for some reason.
Btu still a lot of talent on show.
Madueke has easily been the best player for me in this match
Not quite sure that’s true. He had 26 appearances for us before poch with only 11 league appearances.Kane was already a regular.
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.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.
Kane was definitely not a regular.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 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.Kane was definitely not a regular.
Our Under-15s beat Millwall 3-1 this morning. Dante Cassanova scores 2 and Max McKnight got an assist.
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.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
No one said he was a starter, but a regular.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.