- Dec 6, 2006
- 5,692
- 17,583
Also to round this argument off, none of us know how good or not each & every player is in the academy. Poch gets to see them train & will be getting info from his trusted team on the abilities for each player. If he doesn't think that they are good enough then we have to trust him.
We, as a club, are trying to win the league and we need top players in every position
Fair point, I personally am happy with the amount of academy players playing as I'm sure if we filled the team with young players too early we wouldn't have finished 3rd then 2nd, and our older players (who the young ones are learning from) would have left for Champions League football........
We, as a club, are trying to win the league and we need top players in every position
If I understand the initial post correctly, it is about players who have come through an academy and started playing PL matches for their respective youth career clubs during the time since Pochettino's arrival at Spurs. Within that framework, I see little or no flaw in the stats. Carroll, Townsend, Rose, Kane etc etc didn't start playing PL matches for the club of their youth career after Pochettino arrived. Bellerin and Lingard did.
If one would have to include a whole range of Spurs players who came through from the Spurs academy at a point, then the same figures must be added up for other clubs, going further back in time. You have to start counting fomr some specific time in history, and it is reasonable to do that from Pochettino's start at Spurs, because this is supposed to be his forte.
More to the point, rather than haggling over who should count or not count, let's have the debate centre around the actual underlying question, are we happy or not happy with the amount of academy players who have started playing PL matches for Spurs after Pochettino arrived?
Fair point, I personally am happy with the amount of academy players playing as I'm sure if we filled the team with young players too early we wouldn't have finished 3rd then 2nd, and our older players (who the young ones are learning from) would have left for Champions League football........