- Jun 18, 2006
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Burnett doesn’t get much love on here. If the team is not delivering results or players to the First team despite the influx of talent from previous years, is he partly responsible. When these players that get ‘Poch Zoned’ are coming back to U23’s, why are they not dominating? Why is Burnett not building teams around them. The development aspect seems lost, and it’s just a tick box team.
McDermott was rated previously, but the academy and development is his remit, and it’s fallen backwards
I’d like to see any change at the top flood through to this level. Get the first teams and development/academy teams working more synchronised. The club have invested vast sums of money building training facilities to supposedly create a production line to the first team, but that pathway currently appears broken.
U18’s appear to do better, but U23’s seem to regularly struggle with Premier League 2. So if we have no depth to call on behind the senior team, then it’s going to be more scouring the transfer market to refresh the team, and that’s not really always been a success has it of late.
It’s a decent point that’s made about Sherwood, love him or hate him, at least we got semi meaningful loans for players, and they did actually go out on loan. How much more developed could Walker-Peters be now had he had regular competitive football for the last 12-18 months. Chelsea sent the likes of Abraham, Loftus-Cheek, Tomori and Mount out and they are now seeing the benefit.
McDermott was rated previously, but the academy and development is his remit, and it’s fallen backwards
I’d like to see any change at the top flood through to this level. Get the first teams and development/academy teams working more synchronised. The club have invested vast sums of money building training facilities to supposedly create a production line to the first team, but that pathway currently appears broken.
U18’s appear to do better, but U23’s seem to regularly struggle with Premier League 2. So if we have no depth to call on behind the senior team, then it’s going to be more scouring the transfer market to refresh the team, and that’s not really always been a success has it of late.
It’s a decent point that’s made about Sherwood, love him or hate him, at least we got semi meaningful loans for players, and they did actually go out on loan. How much more developed could Walker-Peters be now had he had regular competitive football for the last 12-18 months. Chelsea sent the likes of Abraham, Loftus-Cheek, Tomori and Mount out and they are now seeing the benefit.