Don't antagonise @Barnfred 55 with Liam Walsh diss.
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Everton Youth Teams Thread
- Thread starter Goat
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johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Goat hatez the yoof
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Schneiderlin was proper bilge and now Handsome Marco has turned him into someone people are actually hoping returns from injury soon. So...
Schneiderlin was proper bilge and now Handsome Marco has turned him into someone people are actually hoping returns from injury soon. So...
Marcel will buy us some yoots we can be proud of.
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
I'd settle for turning Davies and Dowell into legitimate Prem quality players.
Dowell aint making it mate.
BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £40m
You see the future ?
Dont be writing kids off before they've kicked a ball for us.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Who?
..I think the reality, JD, is that he wouldn’t have been used. I was a big fan of Walsh but I had no issue with him leaving because the coaches are watching him day in, day out, season in, season out. He’s a fine footballer and will be earning a very good living out the game.
Fraser Hornby selected again for Scotland u21 squad and their forthcoming Euro 21 campaign. Good experience for him in what is developing into a relatively decent team. I’m sure there’ll be other Everton players from other countries involved too.
While we always had the odd one or two good youth players, the large batch we had in recent years has provided us with a good benchmark to judge our current crop by. Walsh and Ledson are good markers for judging the likes of Williams and Beni ( yeah I know they’re all slightly different) . Others like Nathan Holland, Delial Brewster can be used to judge our u18s , good in their age group but never able to push on even into our U23s . Dyson, Duffus, Henen, Grant are good past markers for the likes of Hornby, Sambou , Broadhead, Charsley - they’re all going to have to prove themselves at least better than the first ones mentioned if they’re going to make it with us.
I think we all recognise just how difficult it is to bring through Academy youngsters to PL level, the odds are always against us in terms of numbers likely to make it . It’s pretty easy to make yourself look clever by denigrating all the youth players, you know you’ll be right the majority of the time. Meanwhile I’ll continue to enjoy following the U23s/u18 for what they are , Everton teams that deserve our support and who actually have provided some of the club’s best results in recent years.
...and if there is a legacy of the Walsh era, it might well be the strategy of buying a few promising youngsters every season. They could well be the type who are more likely to come through (DCL, Holgate).
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I hope that's revisited. Not everything Walsh did was a bad move though I understand people like binary. They like the idea everything someone did was poor.
If you look at lads like Gibson and the fella they got from Fulham then in time there is a chance that with potentially DCL/Lookman etc some of his signings come good in the longer term. The big thing for me was Walsh didn't close enough deals for young players, I know they wanted Hurst, Brooks, the lad who went to Bayern (zizkee?), the Centre half from City and liked both the Sessegnon brothers. If Walsh had closed these deals, for relatively low values of money I think he may well still have been at the club.
I like the idea that we make the under 23's as competitive as possible. I think it's a good thing there's an expectation to win games, and win trophies put onto younger players at that level. I know Liverpool and Manchester United are big on that. That needs to continue.