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Same here. I think I may have scared my neighbors in my apartment building by screaming like a crazy person several times during the game!Haven't celebrated like that for a long time!
Same here. I think I may have scared my neighbors in my apartment building by screaming like a crazy person several times during the game!Haven't celebrated like that for a long time!
Long over due!Same here. I think I may have scared my neighbors in my apartment building by screaming like a crazy person several times during the game!
Another cracking post, although I'm not sure osmosis is the right word.See this is another thing I'm not entirely sure I agree on, the need for him to loan out players or indeed that he's entirely responsible for not doing so. This is again one of those things we decide upon without knowing the facts. Do we know who is actually responsible for youth development? What input does he have on deciding who goes out on loan. Who decides when a player is ready for that. I feel the balance of probability is that Poch would be guided by those who know the player best. That they'd have a chat about certain players and decide how to proceed from there. It's not all 'on Poch' as people used to like to say.
Is a player ready to go out on loan
Would a player benefit more from being around the squad/training with the first team etc etc
Can we actually find that player a suitable club
If we can, does that club want to take him, does that player want to go there
For sure there are instances where we can't understand why this or that player didn't get farmed out but we don't know the inside story enough to make a definitive judgement on it, certainly not enough to blame it on Pochettino. IMO if we asked the question of someone who knows the full story and actually got an answer, we'd look at it and go ""oh yeah, makes sense I suppose". At the end of the day, some players go out on loan, some don't......
We all know about Urban Legends right? IMO there's a lot of 'Spurban Legends" floating around SC, people say stuff often enough and it becomes fact. This player sulks (he doesn't), that player is too big for his boots because he points (He's not) and so on........I think this youth thing, in the grand scheme of Poch's tenure isn't a massive deal but it's seemingly become one. No idea why but for me........spurban legend.
*Reads the above
Fucking hell, I don't know what's happening to me, it must be that osmosis thing again
Another cracking post, although I'm not sure osmosis is the right word.
Osmosis is about movement of water, (usually). If you are absorbing something unpleasant across your membranes then it might be by diffusion alone.?
My Internal science Nazi... must resist...too strong...aaaahhhh....Another cracking post, although I'm not sure osmosis is the right word.
Osmosis is about movement of water, (usually). If you are absorbing something unpleasant across your membranes then it might be by diffusion alone.?
Referring back to ITK about Jose wanting to wait for the player he wants at the Center Forward position, I think it's going to be Victor Osimhen from Lille. I think he'll see Osimhen and think of Samuel Eto'o. Has played CF, great size/speed combo, offers something different to Kane and can play out wide, too. Not saying we are going to get him, he'll have plenty of suitors, but think he's going to be the target.
Referring back to ITK about Jose wanting to wait for the player he wants at the Center Forward position, I think it's going to be Victor Osimhen from Lille. I think he'll see Osimhen and think of Samuel Eto'o. Has played CF, great size/speed combo, offers something different to Kane and can play out wide, too. Not saying we are going to get him, he'll have plenty of suitors, but think he's going to be the target.
This is purely a guess, but I assume it’s because he was so entrenched into his philosophy and the intensity of his training that he didn’t think it would be beneficial for the academy prospects to be at another club.
Whereas Jose ( and Redknapp ) are more pragmatic ( maybe more old school if you like) and think experience of playing games and being battled hardened are more important.
Referring back to ITK about Jose wanting to wait for the player he wants at the Center Forward position, I think it's going to be Victor Osimhen from Lille. I think he'll see Osimhen and think of Samuel Eto'o. Has played CF, great size/speed combo, offers something different to Kane and can play out wide, too. Not saying we are going to get him, he'll have plenty of suitors, but think he's going to be the target.
Freddie Woodman, Jake Clarke-Salter and Keiran Dowell say hi, and really wish your 2 out of 11 was correct...I understood his logic at the time of keeping them developing in our ethos but we saw a couple of the most promising players like KWP and Onomah suffer and the fact that they are the only 2 of the 11 who won that youth world cup not playing regularly either in the prem or bundesliga over the past 18 months does make it look worse imo.
Shit, when did you read Carl Jung?Thanks
Yeah it can mean that, but also..........the process of gradual or unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.
Freddie Woodman, Jake Clarke-Salter and Keiran Dowell say hi, and really wish your 2 out of 11 was correct...
This is again one of those things we decide upon without knowing the facts. Do we know who is actually responsible....
Overall, not the worst window. I do still worry about the inability of our scouting setup to identify the quality we need. This is where I hope we can get someone like Luis Campos in before the summer, to provide some serious structure and vision.
The upsides could well far outweigh the lack of a striker. A change to 433, as some are suggesting may be upon us, looking at what we have, could negate the need for an out and out target man initially, focusing on pace and technique. With a shift to 3 CM’s, we may hopefully see more opportunities for Skipp, plus Parrott getting minutes off the bench as our only legit CF. Tanganga likewise hopefully getting minutes with Walker-Peters and Rose both gone, whilst he may more likely play FB for now, that could help his development longer term for CB.
Secondly, the shift in focus on the development side, getting players out to experience actual first team football, see who sinks and who swims, rather than leave them playing U23 football. Also letting those leave. who may have stagnated, allowing a clearer path for the talents from the age below to step up.
What I do like is all the positivity around plans for the summer, seems we know what we want to do already, and have a profile of the sort of player we want. Young hungry players who are both athletic and technical, not just one or other.
You can list probably twenty things Mourinho has done that are genuinely sadistic compared to your weird suppositions you make about Poch’s relationship with KWP there...Sounds reasonable to me. I don't mind having young players hanging around the first team. But the way Pochettino had someone like KWP hanging around until he was well passed 20 was borderline sadistic. You almost got to wonder if Pochettino had something personal against KWP trying to ruin his career.
Personally I think Pochettino got lost in his own hype. As you say he wanted to shape young players himself because leaving it to other clubs to shape his players would just possibly ruin them.
Send them out, but make sure they know you are still watching them. Just sad when you read how we treated the likes of Caulker. Of course it is a case of sink or swim in professional football, but they are still young boys. Sounds like Mourinho has reflected a lot around these things as he has gotten older. Let us hope he has become good at it as well. To me it is not only about playing the best young players. It is about getting the best out of all of them. Even another Oshea can have great value for a good team.
Oh you tease!Leave this for the summer, but will get it in now. A particular young midfielder & striker in France. We are clear in front, if! We want to do the deals. Names shared indoors