Yeah,and I would argue he does coach them, and often switches their positions to see how adjustable they are. There's only so much he can do though. It would be great to bring through a Rooney every year, but it's just not realistic.
Going back to the start of the Prem, we have brought through a good number of 1st team players and a whole lot more who became professionals elsewhere. But with the open reach of the transfer market and the money in the game, both in terms of teams being unable or unwilling to take chances due to how much is at stake, or by how much people are able to spend on finished articles from abroad, it has become harder and harder to keep that flow going.
And what doesn't help, is when the players we do bring through are hammered for not being good enough regardless of if they are given a fair chance. I had many arguments with people saying how the likes of Keiron Dowell and Liam Walsh just weren't good enough to displace the likes of Sigurdsson and Schneiderlin, both of whom offered very little themselves at an enormous cost to us, and the supposed proof that backs it up is that they didn't get the chances in the 1st place, so they can't have been good enough. But concurrently, this is somehow also Unsworths fault for not developing them? What else could he have done in the scenario to ensure they were chosen?
