Marsh is only a year younger than Onomah. Poch kept Onomah around the first team for almost 2.5 years and played him over 30 times when he was 17-20.
It's weird how people Poch trusting Onomah is swept under the carpet and he's pigeonholed as a no hoper with a terrible attitude.
Nah, it's because of registration + UEFA paperwork hold up. Same thing happened with Arvin Appiah at the U17 Euros last year. Didn't even come through until after the first group game. With England getting a bye through the first round of qualifying, it's exacerbated things. Just like the Euros...
The last U17 squad didn't contain any of the players who weren't born in England. Simeu, Cirkin, Okoflex, Musah, Carvalho, Sarmiento. Cirkin, Musah + Carvalho are all dead certs. I think as it's the first official UEFA fixtures they've had, there was a hold up in processing them for eligibility...
My post was a defence of Edwards tbf.
The previous post mentioning Eriksen was basically 'well Eriksen has no problems so why does Edwards', I was just pointing out it's not a fair comparison as they're no way near the same size. Of course Eriksen's transition into senior football was smoother...
you really think that if he was especially bad in training Poch would be keeping him around, consistently naming him on the bench and Spurs would continually be giving him new contracts?
nah, I mean more that it's easier to crap on them in hindsight and claim they weren't as good as the 2000s when we've seen them fall off etc. Hindsight is probably the wrong way of phrasing it, maybe I mean that the 2000s have the benefit of no hinsight...yet.
I agree with most of this. An important point you raise is that they're too young to have let us down yet, so we're always going to judge them more favourably than the 97s until we have the benefit of hindsight. One way to look at it is that Oakley-Boothe's 2018/19 season is the equivalent of...
and if he's not good enough, then shouldn't them same people be concerned that there's a guy often on the Spurs bench who isn't ever good enough to play for them?
It happens at every club, fans never want to sell youth players or get angry when they try to leave, but then the same fans never...
what do you guys make of Dinzeyi? Tanganga, Eyoma + him have been involved in a lot of bad results where they seem utterly helpless at times. So many goals conceded. I've seen the other two look alright for England, but is Dinzeyi just a complete product because he's so tall? On the flipside...
I also like Skipp. But it was pretty striking how much better TOB was on the ball than him. Looked so calm and was picking out forward passes in situations where it was hard to tell when he'd even scanned to see if it was on. Skipp wasn't quite quick enough at times and it felt like he was...
Yeah, I think Sancho was unique. He was dominating U23 games at 16. It's hard to bracket them up retrospectively without being influenced by what's happened since, so it's hard to exactly assess Edwards. Sancho was just such a sure thing though. As much as Hazard or Rooney.
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