our youth policy stinks............

[Factamondo]

in the last ten years tell me how many of our 'youth product' have come through to shine in our first team?????.ray jones r.i.p is the stand out one but where are the others? sterling went to libpool and the other lad parrot to spuds then what is the point in the youth system????.....this is making me cuckoo!

[Connell10]

make you right there mate , but aint our board gonna fix this so we have a prem league status youth team or some such thing! maybe in a few years we will have the next big mac,s, clive allens and paul goddards to name a few coming through!

[westsussexranger]

shabazz baidoo?

[Factamondo]

[MattyRangers]

shabazz baidoo?

Aka MC Terminator.

[Connell10]

What ever happened to the next big thing german????

[westsussexranger]

was langely a youth product?

[Gtleighsr3]

seamen was in the youth

[westsussexranger]

seamen was in the youth

wasnt he signed from brum?

[westsussexranger]

yes he was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seaman

[jmelanie]

In any case it wasn't in the last ten years.

[Gtleighsr3]

I meant in rumour not playing

[winalotto]

shabazz baidoo?

Didn't come through our youth set up came through the Arsenal academy ..
Make you right though facto, been banging on about this for years on message boards, need the academy reinstated, and some new faces to work alongside what is already there, scouts, coaching staff etc. Will take time but is much needed, we should be able to develop players much easier than we are, when you think of the catchment area we have, must be something wrong.

[Factamondo]

i wrote to the club five years ago to send someone to have a look at three grays athletic players..........gary hooper.....michael kightly.....arron maclean...........was told' we are very happy with our current scouting network'........says it all!

[winalotto]

i wrote to the club five years ago to send someone to have a look at three grays athletic players..........gary hooper.....michael kightly.....arron maclean...........was told' we are very happy with our current scouting network'........says it all!

Problem with scouting at the moment is its all in house, all clubs use the same old faces, tried to get two youngsters in in feb last year, found it far harder than it should have been. one is now with Palace and one with WBA on 3 year deals.