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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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Eggs said:
....interested in the quotes regarding their promising youngsters coming through, I looked last nights starters up. Other than 18 year old Pedra Chivrilla, I wouldn't particularly put the others in that category. More specifically;

Brad Smith is 22 in April and has 2 appearances to his name.
Kevin Stewart is 22 and has played once.
Tiago Ilori is 22 with 1 appearance.
Carlos Texeira is 23 with 2 appearances.

Compare that with some of our guys at a similar age;

John Stones is 21, played 66 games and received 7 full England caps.
Ross Barkley is 22, played over 100 games for Everton plus 19 full England appearances.

Behind those are proper fringe players like Galloway and Browning.
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The chances of any of those breaking into their first team are incredibly slim. Smith might become a Flanagan-type squad player, but I'd expect the others to all be sold or released in the next 12 months
 

Eggs said:
....interested in the quotes regarding their promising youngsters coming through, I looked last nights starters up. Other than 18 year old Pedra Chivrilla, I wouldn't particularly put the others in that category. More specifically;

Brad Smith is 22 in April and has 2 appearances to his name.
Kevin Stewart is 22 and has played once.
Tiago Ilori is 22 with 1 appearance.
Carlos Texeira is 23 with 2 appearances.

Compare that with some of our guys at a similar age;

John Stones is 21, played 66 games and received 7 full England caps.
Ross Barkley is 22, played over 100 games for Everton plus 19 full England appearances.

Behind those are proper fringe players like Galloway and Browning.
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And that's without mentioning lukaku (ok we forked out a bit for him) and del
 
mikeh72 said:
The chances of any of those breaking into their first team are incredibly slim. Smith might become a Flanagan-type squad player, but I'd expect the others to all be sold or released in the next 12 months
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Their philosophy is detrimental to youngsters. They spent countless millions on young players under Rafael etc, but were never given a chance.

Instead, if things were not working correctly then they simply spent huge amounts of money filling their squad with ready-made professionals.

As a parent of a promising youngster that wouldn't go amiss. Why send your son there as they'll be unlikely to be given an opportunity.
 
Eggs said:
....interested in the quotes regarding their promising youngsters coming through, I looked last nights starters up. Other than 18 year old Pedra Chivrilla, I wouldn't particularly put the others in that category. More specifically;

Brad Smith is 22 in April and has 2 appearances to his name.
Kevin Stewart is 22 and has played once.
Tiago Ilori is 22 with 1 appearance.
Carlos Texeira is 23 with 2 appearances.

Compare that with some of our guys at a similar age;

John Stones is 21, played 66 games and received 7 full England caps.
Ross Barkley is 22, played over 100 games for Everton plus 19 full England appearances.

Behind those are proper fringe players like Galloway and Browning.
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This is why I hope that, if we are taken over, that most/all of the "investment" we get goes into the non-playing squad bits of the club.
 

Dortmund fans had a ticket price protest last night in their match (tennis balls thrown onto the pitch). That'll be seen as evidence of Libpoolfc starting a revolution.
 


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