- Jan 11, 2013
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I haven't seen anywhere near enough youth football to give a sincere appraisal. But some interesting insights. One thing I'm very suprised about is not one person mentioning Tom Carroll. I thought he was always a big player in the youth team, but never transferred it essentially to being a dominant first team player. I always thought we fucked up with him by playing him further back, which I understand was the coaches idea. He did play as a striker originally iirc. No one rated him as a youth?
Did forget Carroll, but looking back at my team maybe in the one had a Pritchard in in a central role he might play a part, but I think Skipp and Veljkovic were better holders. Onomah will be the best CM, Carroll is very close and a good shows and I do agree his development was handld badly. Put him next to someone big and mobile and he would've been really good with opportunity I think.
I don't think he wasn't rated as a youngster, he was just small I believe so developed later and wasn't playing much at u18s. I think he really started to appear as a 19 year old and older which is when he started making England squads