Zedie wrote:theHotHead wrote:Zedie if there is a RB in the U21s and he isn't better than AMN in the role you better sack the entire recruitment and development team because they are f***ing shit!!
There must be one, the manager is just being a div.
Yeah, its easy to blame everything on the manager when your argument is flawed. You guys will be using this for the next 2-3 managers after Emery and still not acknowledge the root of the problem.
We got rid of mislinstat who was an expert at spotting young talent and we dont have the budget to even get in top level prospects when our first team is severely lacking in many areas.
If youngsters dont develop into world beaters that's life and you've got to deal with it.
Demanding that all our youngsters are better than the first team is simply not realistic.
Mate do you know anything about how players progress into the first team? It seems not. So let me explain how it works.
Kid signs schoolboy forms, usually the kid plays in a fixed position, most of the time it is the same position the kid played in the school team and then most likely borough team and then most likely county team. Some players do get converted, for example Ashley Cole used to play up front for his school and I believe for Westward Boys, he was converted to a left back.
In any case from age 11 or so kids play a position and get coached by their pro clubs, then move up to the old "apprentice" level which is youth team footie. Then if they are good enough 2 years later they get offered a pro contract. By this time (16/17 years old) they have been playing that position for a good 5-6 years. They continue their development in what we used to call reserve team football, now I think it is called the U21s.
If you have ever followed them - I have, I have known various Arsenal reserve team footballers, 2 of which were Paolo Vernazza and Isiah Rankin - you would know that they are very good footballers knocking on the door of the first team in the positions they play. That is the purpose of the reserve team.
So even an average RB in the ressies would be better as an RB in the first team than a first team CM asked to play RB by the manager who looks out of place doing so. AMN looks mostly very bad as a RB, there is no way he is better than the Arsenal U21 RB.
Different argument altogether if as Sims says we loaned ours out, but then you have to question that decision.