- Jul 3, 2012
- 4,748
- 9,845
He’s made no more mistakes than Aurier has it’s just we kept the faith with Serge plus we have way more options at CB than RB. There’s massive question marks around him but there’s also massive potential.
He’s made a fair few mistakes tbf, Wolves springs to mind and didn’t he stupidity get sent off at Bournemouth?
TrueUnder this manager though he’s only had the one chance. I don’t think there is anyone in our back four who hasn’t made multiple mistakes. At least with Foyth he makes his mistakes trying to be positive. Bringing the ball out, a progressive pass to get us going. I appreciate that more than players taking the easy option and passing the responsibility to one or two players. I wouldn’t mind as much if those other players were great as pure defenders but they make plenty of mistakes in that regard too.
Don't think there was anything wrong with the handling of Foyth. Wanted to evaluate and learn about him first year, last year played a decent amount of games & some important ones as well. This year he was on schedule to be a starter at 21.Shame he will probably leave, bags of potential. If I'm honest our handling of youth under Poch was disgraceful, we didn't utilise the loan system anywhere near as much. This guy should have been out on loan as soon as he joined instead of rotting away on the bench and making the odd appearance every few months. It would have allowed us to accelerate his development instead of letting it stagnate and would also allow us to command a larger fee if we still wanted to sell him. Same has happened with Skipp, who granted is younger and from the academy but why wasn't he sent on loan this season instead of being used in ten minutes cameos every 5 games. Poch's policy of wanting young players to train with the squad has been proved to be foolish and should not have been pursued unless he was sure they (or the individual in question) are close to being consistent first team material. Another case is the example of KWP who until Jose came in and sanctioned a loan was similarly rotting away getting no minutes. Now he's had a promising loan and guess what we can probably sell him for £10-15m. The likes of Chelsea and Liverpool make a lot of money from hoarding young players, loaning them out and selling them for more than they are worth, or if they are good enough, keeping them and using them in the first team a la Mount and Abraham. Onomah and Edwards were two more that were mishandled by Poch, one of them is now tearing it up in Portugal and being linked to Dortmund and United and the other is doing very well for Fulham. It's very annoying.
Tanganga, Dier, Toby & Sanchez. 4 CBs on the books and we desperately need a RB.
Sell Foyth and put it towards a RB
Of course he wasn't bad for our youth but I think we could have got a lot more out of some of them by utilising loans moreDon't think there was anything wrong with the handling of Foyth. Wanted to evaluate and learn about him first year, last year played a decent amount of games & some important ones as well. This year he was on schedule to be a starter at 21.
I'll agree some were mishandled but don't agree at all with Foyth. I'd say Poch did more good for our younger players than he did bad. So I don't fully understand this whole notion now that Poch was terrible for our youth.
Walcott came in the cl this season, you’d hope it was cos he’s rated rather than just for the sake of itOut of interest, are any of our other youth centre backs on the verge of coming through? Shame that Binks lad left as surely it would have been a great opportunity for him. Decision, decisions.
I like Foyth though, and don't necessarily want to see him shifted. Talented but erratic, and could probably really benefit from having King and Mourinho around if he's up for the challenge.
If I'm honest our handling of youth under Poch was disgraceful, we didn't utilise the loan system anywhere near as much. This guy should have been out on loan as soon as he joined instead of rotting away on the bench and making the odd appearance every few months. It would have allowed us to accelerate his development instead of letting it stagnate and would also allow us to command a larger fee if we still wanted to sell him.
When was the last time a Premiership club sold a player with a buy back clause and then went on to use it?
Man City sold Angelino to PSV in summer 2018 and triggered his buy back clause summer 2019. Pep has said in an interview they’ve got one on Douglas Luiz as well, but doubt they’ll be triggering it.When was the last time a Premiership club sold a player with a buy back clause and then went on to use it?