"Blood youngsters" is a phrase used to refer to young people who are related by blood, such as siblings or cousins.
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Arsenal have had lots of talented youngsters coming through the Hale End Academy, and the whole point of staying with us is because Arsene wenger had a big reputation for
blooding youngsters in the first team, usually via playing in the League Cup.
Wenger has already announced that David Ospina will be in goal, so that doesn't leave much room
for blooding some youngsters in the big game.
Swansea also have a history
of blooding youngsters in the first team early to develop home grown players, such as current star and Great Britain Olympic international Joe Allen, and Laudrup has also cited this as a reason to trim down his squad.
The Man United manager opted to
blood youngsters Paddy McNair and Tyler Blackett, and will have been pleased overall with the efforts they put in.
Villas - Boas already has an eye to the future and as well as signing the likes of Oriol Romeu, Juan Mata and Romelu Lukaku the former FC Porto boss is also keen to
blood youngsters who were already at the club when he arrived.
Fosu - Mensah has played three times so far this term, but the suggestion that Mourinho is ready to put his faith in a fairly unproven youngster comes as a surprise somewhat, considering the Special One's historical reluctance to
blood youngsters throughout his managerial career.
He will be expected to
blood youngsters from the academy, something he has struggled to do throughout his time as top - level manager, and play attractive, attacking football, not the dull, calculated and cynical style of play that has been the hallmark of his most successful stints.
With an already ageing squad and an apparent reluctance to
blood youngsters elsewhere in the side this is not a forward looking strategy.
Some interesting comments made on the difficulties
of blooding youngsters in the Premier League by Slaven Bilic, in the Daily Mail interview with Martin Samuel, and mistakes don't get punished as cruelly as they do as last defender.
Well if we failed we won't have won a trophy last season (FA cup would be used to
blood youngsters), we won't have players like Alexis and Ozil come into the club, and we definitely would not be able to keep players like Cazorla, Walcott and Ramsey because we would probably be playing Europa league (or even not been in Europe) and still have probably 5 more years to go in paying of the stadium because we are not getting enough money into the club (no Champions league).
Anyway I like to win the competition now we are int it to raise our profile so hope AW gets serious later on but for now perfect to
blood youngsters — Willock played well yesterday!
But the way
he bloods youngsters and brings them through is simply first - class.
Blood the youngsters, fitness, competitiveness, system, rhythm and improvisation, results do not mean much e.g..
Gunners manager Arsene Wenger has historically used this competition to
blood youngsters.
IMO, it's more important to give those guys a job at every opportunity than to
blood youngsters.
A firm believer in nurturing youths and developing talents for the purists, Arsene Wenger is one of the only managers who attends every single training session and will be looking to
blood his youngsters, who will also feel like new signings.
We're probably set to see another weakened side from the Premier League champions, with Antonio Conte using the FA Cup as a chance to
blood youngsters and hand out a few minutes to the fringe players.
I am all for
blooding youngsters, giving them games in the 1st team, but Campbell is still not ready to be relied upon on a regular basis.
Baxter made it clear when he announced his squad that now was the time to «refresh» the Bafana Bafana team, and that he was ready to cut loose older players in order to
blood youngsters.
It would be ironic were that to be the case given the manager's statement yesterday that this is the wrong time to be
blooding youngsters!
And Ramsey has recently reiterated that he is on no crusade to
blood youngsters to merely flex his muscles as a champion of youth and academy coaching.
It was good to see a few youngsters on the bench at Anfield but I am concerned about how reluctant Bilic has become to
blood youngsters.
Bundestrainer, Joachim Löw has hinted that he may allow a number of his senior players — mainly those based in the Premier League — to have that summer off and mainly use the tournament as an opportunity to
blood youngsters.
The overbearing Howard instructs his confined guests that there is to be no touching, as if that would be enough warning for two hot -
blooded youngsters to keep their hands off one another while trapped inside roughly 1000 square feet.