lose 3 - 1 vs Galatasaray, because we will play with
youth players since we don't have a second team.
We have not successfully developed
any youth player since Fabregas and RVP, we have spent a lot of money on good players such as Sanchez, Carzola and Ozil, but we are 6th, 33 points behind Mancity, out of the Fa, humiliated at the Carabao final, would be lucky to win the Europa, all our players (both homegrown and bought) are regressing and to sum it all up, we are playing shit.
Not exact matches
Wilshere has that «local boy» thing going for him (
since Arsenal has not really been producing anything exceptional as
players) and Wenger obviously rely on him a lot
since he is one of his «findings» (
youth disastrous policy)...
Monaco
since the take over has spent money also on big names like Falcao, etc But Monaco
youth scouting is very good at getting very talented
players at such young age and it only takes a good coach to develop them.
is this supposed to suit us... Z it supposed to calm us down...
Since Tony Adams left the club give me one academy
player that has amounted to anything under wenger... This man does nt have a good eye... He has dropped the
youth project a long time ago..
It's become a common understanding that Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger favours
youth over experience when it comes to signing
players and although the transfer window started off brightly with the signing of Granit Xhaka, the Gunners have
since had no real luck in obtaining their targets.
do we really have the time to buy a top
player an then convert them?why not buy a ready made
player?i don't see the relevance of mentioning Arteta
since he was once a pivot at Barca as a
youth and the fact he hasn't really been very successful converting to DM
The Arsenal
youth product's agent has
since moved to deny any such incident, while the
player himself took to Twitter to deny the allegations.
But even if Arsenal had signed him in the winter, wouldn't they have deployed him to the Arsenal's Premier League II team or to their Under21 team or even loan him out21 instead of to start using him straightaway in their first team starting XI squad
since this is usually the practice at Arsenal whenever they sign a
youth player thereby underutilising Mbappe's potential in their senior team?.
I'm going to continue with B2B
players now, this one is a fantastic
youth prospect which I have been watching with joy
since we pinched him from Villa
youths, young Dan Crawley.
We won comfortably in a competition we haven't lost a game in
since February 2013, without playing anything like our best eleven and giving games to promising
youth players who performed well.
Discounting
players such as Arteta, who are likely leaving on a free, this is a list of what I consider the remaining deadwood and the length of time
since signing with us or with the
youth, their debuts:
Since the end of the 2015/16 season no
players from Chelsea's
youth ranks have made their first team debut.
For your info», I had been told about Joel when we first signed him, and I have followed the lads career
since, watching him as well as other talented
youth players when the opportunity arises.
I've seen a bit of Reiss Nelson and I see him as a No10 in a free role.He will find it very tough to claim that spot for a few seasons but this boy does have tremendous ability and potential.We need to get him as much game time in the League as just being in the team will help his learning curve.Next season in the Europa and Carabao Cup is when we can give him a run out centrally as an attacking midfielder.This is a serious talent who will be a tremendous footballer.Lets hope we can bring him on like we used to in the past with our young
players coming up through the
youth ranks.It seems too long
since we have done this.
We value our
youth system and put trust in our
youth players by giving them game time, Chelsea have been ruining
youth since 04.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or
youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that
player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special
players and certainly can't help make the
player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper
players in the final third... he was never a good defensive
player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a
player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club
since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand
players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those
players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
Well, the last time i checked the talent that Barcelona graduated from their
youth system that made them the most successful club in the past ten years were graduated close to ten years ago (Xavi, Iniesta, Messi etc.) Ever
since they have depended mostly on the aquisition of quality
players from elsewhere to sustain their success and this transfer window goes further to prove that point
As perviously noted, Rafinha struggled at times at Barcelona despite being at the La Liga club
since 2006 as a
youth player.
Our Polish keeper Wojciech Szczesny has been at Arsenal for ten years
since becoming a
youth player at the age of 16.
I have never liked United, in fact despised them
since I can remember, but I always had a type of respect for them that like us, would not spend ridiculous amounts on
players, focus on
youth development and still were able to achieve the highest honours.
Team this with the dwarfing average attendances,
youth dependency, the «50 + 1 rule» (which consists of members having to own at least 51 % of a club so that a single entity can not take control), clubs paying less than 50 % of their revenue on
player wages and the sheer attraction of football quality to the fans, and it is clear to see why the Germans can breathe easily, creating a yearly turnover of around $ 2bn with small annual losses now and again (two
since 2003).
Since retiring as a
player in 2013, Gattuso has enjoyed mixed fortunes as coach, with short stints at Sion in Switzerland, at Palermo and Pisa in Italy and at Greek minnows OFI Crete before joining the Milan
youth setup in May.
The young attacking midfielder has also been a part of the squad
since the 2011 season (Man, Marotta and Paratici wasted no time in completely revamping our senior AND
youth squad setups), and as such, he should already count as a club trained
player should he ever earn a first team spot.
Powell was a graduate of Crewe Alexandra's
youth academy, a club famed for producing young
players, and despite scoring on his debut has struggled to kick on
since then, enduring loan spells at Wigan Athletic, Leicester City and now Hull City.
We have put together a quiz of every
player that Arsenal have acquired
since 2013 including loan deals, free transfers and the odd
youth starlet here and there.
5
Since 2000, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of serious shoulder and elbow injuries among
youth baseball and softball
players.
There has been a five-fold increase
since 2000 in the number of serious elbow and shoulder injuries among
youth baseball and softball
players, according to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.
Since then, demand has been pushing those servers to the limit, as
players suffering from massive nostalgia trips jostled to get back to playing the game that defined their
youth.