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Good enough me.
..indications are Silva likes what he’s seen of Joe Williams.
Do you have a link Eggs?...Namesse Mampala singled out in an article as a player to watch next season. The 17 year old scored 11 goals in 18 youth appearances last season and is highlighted as a youngster on 1st team radar.
The question is at what point do you judge if a player has kicked on or not? Some players are the finished article at 22, some you don't see the best of till 26.In many ways we have had the big problem Eng;and have had, which is producing great players to 16/17/18/19 but ultimately them not kicking on. There is a variety of reasons for this. Last season we played more lads 21 and younger than any other team. We played more than treble all but one team. We always have done really, but they don't kick on. Thats the question that needs to be answered.
The question is at what point do you judge if a player has kicked on or not? Some players are the finished article at 22, some you don't see the best of till 26.
For example, Tom Davies had a mediocre season last season, and some are saying he hasn't kicked on, which is a bit harsh.
The 4-3-3 that is played by Portugal needs a "pivot".
Basically someone who sits in front of the back 4 - providing defensive cover but also passing the ball simply and accurately out to the wings. It isn't a traditional position in England. It was what Rodwell was really good at.
Joe Williams is probably the best suited of our youth players to do that role so I can see why he'd be in favour with Silva.
It may depend on what team we play, in the past we’ve dicked about giving fringe players games in these kind of tournaments not taking them too seriously. One argument is that these are development games and we shouldn’t worry about results. But I’d like to see our strongest teams playing Bayern Munich and Benfica. Dowell has made some telling comments about what he got from his loan, playing “proper” football and learning to change his style of play when they were 1-0 up I.e. game management. We’ve got a comparatively young team at U23s, I would love them to have a real go against probably older more experienced teams, managing the game in a “proper” way to get a result. We’d learn a lot about them and they’d learn a lot too.Tough opposition but I feel we'll have a much stronger U23 team compared to last season.