Noble Savage
Player Valuation: £20m
That would be a good move for all parties. He's local too. I hear that's the most important reason to appoint someone.
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Toff33Blues99
Player Valuation: £15m
Dowell has shown he is mentally weak. He can't even get a start for Norwich
Toff33Blues99
Player Valuation: £15m
Davies and Dom?
Dad watched Dixie
Player Valuation: £2.5m
The Fat Controller
Noble Savage
Player Valuation: £20m
Very true but that is something that can be worked on if not fully addressed. Fergie had similar worries with a few of his players as did Clough and Taylor. I know some of their methods aren't ethical nowadays but their are suitable alternatives.
You're probably correct but I feel at least we could of had at least one extra player with different coaches and methods.
Noble Savage
Player Valuation: £20m
Dom came in from another club. Davies you can have. Being an ex England Under 21 captain really should of been a better launching pad for him.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
Wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case, and if so the right thing to do for a loyal servant. It’s right he goes as we need a serious refresh at the academy but also right to frame it the way we have- realistically you don’t need to leave a job to seek another, but at the same time putting it in those terms puts his name out for other jobs.
….if there’s a lack of players coming through, I doubt it’s down to what happens after they get their first professional contracts. When was the last time we got to the final or latter stages of the FA Youth Cup (U18 level)? I think it was probably Rooney’s team that lost to Villa.
That Villa team had a number of future top flight players, as did the West Ham team that beat us some time earlier. We won it with the likes of Osman, Hibbert, Cadamarteri etc. I even watched Jimmy Husband & John Hurst winning it in 1965.
The point I’m making is the FA Youth Cup has always been a strong indicator of talent, the fact we haven’t had a decent run suggests we have more of a recruitment than coaching issue. Even then, recruitment is so much more difficult because the talent pool is so much smaller. Kids don’t play from dawn till dusk like we did in the 60s and 70s.
The strategy of bringing in promising youngsters is reaping some reward; Stones, DCL, Holgate, Lookman, Nkounkou. Indeed, it was Unsworth who went to the Board and suggested they find monies to buy DCL.
Root and branch change might make a difference. if Unsworth is the start of that then fair enough but I very much doubt his departure alone will make much difference.
I watched a lot of the Norwich V Burley game last Sunday.
Kieran Dowell did alright but no better than that. Certainly not a player we would try to sign to make us better.
Good luck to David Unsworth and 'all the best' for his future. I wish him every success at whatever club he ends up at.
A change in the academy every few years is a good thing, it blows away the cobwebs and introduces new thinking.
I would guess David Unsworth realised changes were coming and decided to leave.
I would guess David Unsworth realised changes were coming and decided to leave.
I wonder if this really is the beginning of the clear out following on from the much vaunted 'strategic review's of the club if so, I wonder who gets the job of telling Duncan that it's time to go. Of course, it may well be that Unsworth has had an offer of a managerial somewhere, perhaps at a club where the manager is still in his position. This really would be a good move on Unsworth's behalf, he has to try to prove himself as a number one at some stage.
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