I think he will show his rotation tonight with half of the 18 being made
up of academy players and half being first team.
The aim of this is to bring in quality players, continue to develop and bring through
more of our academy players and improve the depth of the squad for next season.
According to the ex-Gunner Charlie Nicholas, the Boss can afford to play his usual League Cup side with
lots of Academy players coming in.
During his last season, Conte was part of the original group
of academy players who trained with Bethlehem Steel FC.
It would be disappointing for Madrid to continue in this vein without more emphasis on the incorporation
of academy players into permanent roles in their first team.
He started with team
full of academy players against Stoke in the FA Cup last friday to give some of the main players rest ahead of Arsenal game.
To compete as well as we have against rivals who have invested far greater sums in players than we have and have eschewed the
development of Academy players makes his achievements all the more remarkable.
You're not focusing on the facts here, Dortmund bought a world class striker for the
price of an academy player and then replaced him with another top class striker for less than what we paid Chambers for.
I just don't see keeping them at USL level just to get them minutes when there are open bench slots with the first team and
plenty of academy players pushing for USL spots.
However, even if Welbeck is fit to start, I would not be surprised to see Wenger bring Giroud back into the starting XI anyway, especially as United look like having to field a mish
mash of academy players and midfielders in theur back four.
I'm really really happy that we a have such a great
pool of academy players at the moment, not to mention the ones that are on loan atm (Toral, Crowley, Pleguezelo)
An undoubted positive from the pre-season games has been the encouraging
performances of academy players such as Nathan Holland, Declan Rice, Reece Burke and Toni Martinez.
The academies of Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United and Chelsea are prolific, also, the latter especially so with no fewer than 15
of their academy players featuring in 2017's triumphant England youth teams.
After Harry Kane, Ryan Mason, Andros Townsend, Danny Rose and Nabil Bentaleb, many Spurs fans who follow the
progress of our academy players are convinced Alex Pritchard will become the next Spurs youngster to make it big in the Premier League
Would we now be pining for the
days of academy players, dodgy loan deals and a bare - bones squad or would we be happy to bask smugly in the reflection of a roomful of domestic and European silverware of more recent vintage than 1980.
The mismatch was made worse by a bit of schedule congestion that saw the S2 staff decide to rest all of their first string field players in
favor of Academy Players and First Teamers seeking match fitness.
If Pritchard makes Poch's grade then the Spurs first - team next season will likely be more than half -
full of academy players, which is a great feather in our cap as no other top Premier League team can even come close to that.
I will put my neck out and state that I feel that Arsene Wenger adheres to its principles in his footballing philosophy and utilises it in the
development of our academy players.
He hasn't even attempted to use
any of our academy players for CB.
But because of these important League games I am sure that Le Prof will make some changes though, especially since the Saints» manager has already revealed he will be playing
some of his academy players.
Hopefully we'll witness another breakthrough season for one
of our academy players.
That would have given time for 1) any of the aforementioned players to learn from him and improve 2) one
of the academy players to make the breakthrough to the first team or 3) for us to use the time to find a younger version of Matuidi.
This is a league cup, a perfect place to give
some of our academy players a chance.
So amongst all of these names,
all of these academy players who have little to no hope of breaking into Liverpool's first team regularly, who is likely to buck the trend?