The Spurs Youth Thread - 2018/19

[Marty]

We actually have a much better squad than Arsenal. Also however weird it sounds City are actually quite a small squad. With foyth now getting Argentinan call up again 22 of our 25 are full internationals. The simple fact is that Skipp is front of the queue and although a good prospect I don’t think anyone would say an outstanding prospect on a par with foden. Although we have a lot of “good” prospects there is nobody obviously knocking poch door down right now saying he should play.

Both better and more bloated IMO, there are a handful we should've managed to get shot of in the summer who are just blocking the path of potential youth products. I know we don't have any wingers knocking on the door but I'd rather see any youth prospect on the bench over N'Koudou, for example.

 

[Hypermusec]

At comparable clubs Smith-Rowe, Foden and Diaz all started for their clubs, ESW and Diaz scoring. City also facing a PL team. Skipp gets 7mins in the League Cup and Poch has done enough to earn praise from the fans, which will no doubt tide him over until next season. Incredible. As I say PL clubs suck at bringing players through and yet Poch still does less. It wont' change and neither will the views of the fans.

The stuff about the players not being good enough is nonsense. They don't need to be as good as Kane just better than our rubbish squad players to get chances. And when the few talents go abroad and seem to do well, when we know full well they would not be playing here, the 'not good enough' excuse surely can only run for so long. People don't honestly believe Sancho would be playing for England if he chose us over Dortmund.

Firstly, I want to say I enjoy your posts in this thread and I do agree with most of what you say here - to some extent - about the academy boys. I would also like them to be given more chances and was a bit disappointed that skipp didnt get more than 7 mins, especially considering wanyama wasnt at his best. However, I think the situation with City and Arsenal isnt entirely comparable. Arsenal played brentford and city played fulham at home. We played west ham away. It’s a tougher match and more hostile environment. I agree that we need to expose our youngsters to this, but I feel poch likes to do this in a controlled and gradual way. We already had players out there struggling, west ham were piling on the pressure and poch reasoning might have been that he didnt want to throw him into too hot water...

Anyway, I do like to see the youngsters given more chances, but however there are some understandble reasons why skipp wasnt given more than 7 mins and eyoma, marsh were left on the bench.

 

[guru]

Skipp and Eyoma signed new contracts in August and made the bench, so that cant be true.

I believe it’s in their new contracts that they are given some first team minutes and bench time once they have signed

 

[mark87]

I do get the impression that Skipp has a similar level of determination as Winks in terms of wanting to make a name for himself at the club and also put in a similar level of effort as winks does too. If he can breakthrough likes Harry has then the both of them could make a good pairing in midfield.

 

[edson]

I do get the impression that Skipp has a similar level of determination as Winks in terms of wanting to make a name for himself at the club and also put in a similar level of effort as winks does too. If he can breakthrough likes Harry has then the both of them could make a good pairing in midfield.

He will be better in the tackle than Winks and more aggressive,Skipp does not stop running and the work load he does box to box is amazing and he is not bad on the ball,not as good as Winks but good enough,He will be a England player in my mind.

 

[Marty]

Question for those of you who have seen a lot more of Skipp than I have.

I see him and Winks as complementary types of players but think they would probably struggle together in a 2. But with a proper DM alongside them in a 4-3-3 we could get the best out of both of them. Is that a fair assumption?

 

[edson]

Question for those of you who have seen a lot more of Skipp than I have.

I see him and Winks as complementary types of players but think they would probably struggle together in a 2. But with a proper DM alongside them in a 4-3-3 we could get the best out of both of them. Is that a fair assumption?

as they are now yes you could be right, but somewhere down the line when they both get a bit older I would like to watch them play together just to see if it could work.

 

[guru]

23s playing Swansea today at training ground

 

[allpaths]

Question for those of you who have seen a lot more of Skipp than I have.

I see him and Winks as complementary types of players but think they would probably struggle together in a 2. But with a proper DM alongside them in a 4-3-3 we could get the best out of both of them. Is that a fair assumption?

Personally I dont see why down the road they couldnt play in a 2 together. Their both technical mobile positionally responsible players. I have a very good feeling about Skipp, like I did with Winks that he'll make it. But I also I had that feeling with Onomah so .

 

[edson]

23s playing Swansea today at training ground

1-0 up Maghoma

 

[edson]

Lost 4-1

 

[therhinospeaks]

Burnett needs to go.

 

[edson]

Burnett needs to go.

Our u23s have been a bad team for a very long time.

 

[therhinospeaks]

Our u23s have been a bad team for a very long time.

Yep, it's been rotten for quite a while. The Derby showing was disgusting and by all accounts today was the worst in years and years. He has to go.

 

[Blake Griffin]

Question for those of you who have seen a lot more of Skipp than I have.

I see him and Winks as complementary types of players but think they would probably struggle together in a 2. But with a proper DM alongside them in a 4-3-3 we could get the best out of both of them. Is that a fair assumption?

skipp is a patroller, winks is a controller, i think they'd work well together. those two with a dm behind would lack creative balance similar to how we struggle going forward when we've had dier, dembele and winks as a three.

 

[coys200]

Wouldn’t be surprised if wells took U23 next season and mason took U18. Although would that actually be seen as a promotion for wells not sure. In some ways U18 is a more important job and probably more rewarding.

 

[edson]

Just goes to show how bad our u23s are that is the first Win of the season for Swansea u23s.

 

[ralphs bald spot]

There is a big article in this months World Soccer on the English youngsters going abroad - I haven't read it yet but it covers 3 or 4 pages

 

[guru]

Terrible performance today . Firstly Burnett has to go . There were no clear instructions coming from the bench , he is killing players off and not allowing them to play their game. It looked to me it was more of an exercise to develop certain players . Other then the goal Maghoma was awful and should have been taken off the pitch at half time . As much as I like Bowden he lost the ball with inaccurate passing more then once and continuously passes back or sideways , he is another one who has been off form lately but continues to be rewarded. Defence was woeful . Sterling was struggling to make anything stick and decision making was poor at times .oakley booth was ok in the first half but non exsistant in the second . Roles wasn’t on his best game , put a couple of good balls through, you can see he is a very clever player but not all are on his wave length which stops him playing his game . We continually slow the game down , take too many touches and hold onto the ball far to long instead of playing our attacking players through quicker

 

[coys200]

The last bit sounds familiar lol.