David Henen

[Fansince1988]

This exactly

Yes, we buy a lot of youngsters from Britain, Ireland, and around Europe. Some of the money is wasted. It's exactly the same with the academy.

With the academy for every Wayne Rooney there's 50 John Paul Kissocks. When we buy a promising teenager from another club for every John Stones there are 20 David Henans.

The key is getting the best scouts to identify these players. This is difficult though as some scouts will find a gem (mostly down to luck) and will then cling to the "I discovered him" tag for life. The scout who discovered Wayne Rooney is probably the luckiest guy in the world. Anyone with half a brain could probably tell that the 7 year old dribbling around an entire opposition team and knocking it in the top bin was going to be a good player.

It is also difficult because other English clubs can offer more money than we can.

I also think we should have a strong lower league loans policy. As soon as a player becomes say 19 they should be put on loan playing 1st team football every week (if they are nowhere near our 1st team of course). Then we will be able to see how good they really are at playing competitive football (I'm think Dowell). This experience/proof that they can cut it will also be handy if we need to sell them. Selling players to lower league clubs can increase relationships. We should sell reasonably cheap, but insert the possibility of buyback clauses and high sell-on percentage fees to maximize the potential of our investments.

Chelsea are the masters of this at the moment. What they do is probably immoral (currently have 36 players out on loan). However, this lets them see which of their youth players are up to the required standard. If not they sell, often for much more than they originally paid. Of course even they get it wrong sometimes (Rom and KDB), but they still get a lot of money back on their original investment.

Ok, David Henan appears to have been a bust. But the next big player for us could easily be sitting in our youth team right now. 18 months ago how many of us had heard of Tom Davies? Probably lots of people on here actually, but I hadn't.

Yes let's hope Tom turns out to be our dele Alli.

 

[davids]

It is attritional.

You only get lucky once in a while.

Martin Murray, Wayne Harrison, Warren Aspinall, Steve Simonsen, Mustafi being similiar examples of wunderkinds down the Everton years.......young players signed in a fanfare of trumpets yet destined never to make a significant breakthrough here.

(though Mustafi has since made it elsewhere)

It seems one minute you were reading about them in a "One for the future" feature in the programme and the next it was in "Where are they now"

Martin Murray the new George Best,it as though it was yesterday.

 

[John Osters Love Child]

Martin Murray the new George Best,it as though it was yesterday.

I remember a Scottish colleague telling me we'd signed the Scottish Giggs when we signed James McFadden.

 

[malcson]

I remember thinking we had pulled off a transfer coup when we signed this young man - how wrong can one be!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Spencer_(footballer)

 

[mightymoyes]

Yes let's hope Tom turns out to be our dele Alli.

i really hope we dont sell him to spurs on the cheap thanks!

 

[summerisle]

My U in O Level French not helping much here.

 

[Tree13]

My U in O Level French not helping much here.

I'm not claiming to be fluent, but it says something along the lines of "Multiple sources confirm that Everton and Marseille have reached an agreement for the transfer of Henen. Discussions have started with the player." But I may be wrong because "tombes" means something like falling, I think.

 

[Hangleton]

I'm not claiming to be fluent, but it says something along the lines of "Multiple sources confirm that Everton and Marseille have reached an agreement for the transfer of Henen. Discussions have started with the player." But I may be wrong because "tombes" means something like falling, I think.

That's it.

 

[Goat]

It is attritional.

You only get lucky once in a while.

Martin Murray, Wayne Harrison, Warren Aspinall, Steve Simonsen, Mustafi being similiar examples of wunderkinds down the Everton years.......young players signed in a fanfare of trumpets yet destined never to make a significant breakthrough here.

(though Mustafi has since made it elsewhere)

It seems one minute you were reading about them in a "One for the future" feature in the programme and the next it was in "Where are they now"

You missed Geri off your list of failed wonderkids.

 

[Tree13]

That's it.

Merci beaucoup.

 

[summerisle]

I'm not claiming to be fluent, but it says something along the lines of "Multiple sources confirm that Everton and Marseille have reached an agreement for the transfer of Henen. Discussions have started with the player." But I may be wrong because "tombes" means something like falling, I think.

Don't knock yourself, better than anything I could recognise.

 

[Efcjake]

You missed Geri off your list of failed wonderkids.

 

[Hangleton]

Merci beaucoup.

Tres bien!

 

[Tree13]

Tres bien!

Tu et très gentil, Monsieur 'angleton.

 

[Hangleton]

Toi aussi Monsieur L'arbre13!