Everton Youth Teams Thread

[blueloon]

Also probs the best U18 crop we've had since the Dowell, Kenny days

Ah that wonderful time of Roberto’s “ Golden generation” when he got all excited as we’d signed “the phenomenal “ Mason Holgate , Tom Davies was captaining England u17 and planes were flying over Goodison with banners trying to get Kenwright out! Hopefully there’s better times ahead, we know that good as they are, few will go on to play regular first team football for us but we can enjoy their progress,!

 

[Verbal Kint]

Just for Info. Why are Liverpool u18s so bad this year, have they got rid of a lot of players, player moved up etc.as i havent seen them that low till we played them

I wouldn't read into that too much, when we won the reserve league a few years back.

We had JJ Kenny and Pennington who had been knocking around the first team, we went all out to win that league. They had a young team with Trent Alexander Arnold, all about developing players really. Results shouldn't be important

 

[Nymzee]

I wouldn't read into that too much, when we won the reserve league a few years back.

We had JJ Kenny and Pennington who had been knocking around the first team, we went all out to win that league. They had a young team with Trent Alexander Arnold, all about developing players really. Results shouldn't be important

And they’re not as per a recent interview with the club.

 

[W84 Dum Freeze]

And they’re not as per a recent interview with the club.

They should be if you want to develop players with a winning mentality.

Take the first team's pre season games, all about fitness and we wonder why we start poorly.

 

[Nymzee]

They should be if you want to develop players with a winning mentality.

Take the first team's pre season games, all about fitness and we wonder why we start poorly.

Nah. It’s about developing good players. They all go on the pitch and want to win but if they lose, ah well, results don’t matter.

 

[Ming the Merciful]

Nah. It’s about developing good players. They all go on the pitch and want to win but if they lose, ah well, results don’t matter.

Problem is when you're doing neither.

 

[Nymzee]

Problem is when you're doing neither.

Well we are.

 

[Ming the Merciful]

Well we are.

No problem then

 

[brettangellnightporter]

For some reason I read the scorers as Wayne Rooney?

Are you Japanese?

 

[blueloon]

And they’re not as per a recent interview with the club.

That interview covered so much , yet it seems to have passed almost unnoticed re discussion in this thread. There are so many things in there, you’ve mentioned the “ people will be judged on their behaviours and how they develop players , not results “ , there’s the structure of how they will play etc. One point I wasn’t aware of was “ a return to the full time training model that the club moved away from a couple of years ago “ . I’m not clear exactly how the current “ hybrid model” works but apparently we are not permitted to recruit nationally from the age of 14 like PL rivals who run full time programmes. It’s an area they’re looking to address, presumably the old model was the one that allowed us to move kids a certain distance and put them in a local school.

 

[Eggs]

Nah. It’s about developing good players. They all go on the pitch and want to win but if they lose, ah well, results don’t matter.

….if you have really talented youngsters, you tend to win football matches. It can even be the case with one outstanding individual, like the FA Youth Cup final team with Rooney. Where it becomes more difficult is when they are out of their age group.

FA Youth Cup Final was always a good indicator of a really talented youngster or two.

 

[Nymzee]

That interview covered so much , yet it seems to have passed almost unnoticed re discussion in this thread. There are so many things in there, you’ve mentioned the “ people will be judged on their behaviours and how they develop players , not results “ , there’s the structure of how they will play etc. One point I wasn’t aware of was “ a return to the full time training model that the club moved away from a couple of years ago “ . I’m not clear exactly how the current “ hybrid model” works but apparently we are not permitted to recruit nationally from the age of 14 like PL rivals who run full time programmes. It’s an area they’re looking to address, presumably the old model was the one that allowed us to move kids a certain distance and put them in a local school.

Aye the part time thing confused me too. I think it's just because the interview was behind a paywall so maybe not everyone read it. Had a lot of waffle in it but also a few good tidbits.

 

[Nymzee]

….if you have really talented youngsters, you tend to win football matches. It can even be the case with one outstanding individual, like the FA Youth Cup final team with Rooney. Where it becomes more difficult is when they are out of their age group.

FA Youth Cup Final was always a good indicator of a really talented youngster or two.

I mean it is, but it's football, the best teams don't always make finals.

 

[Eggs]

I mean it is, but it's football, the best teams don't always make finals.

….no but historically some top players were in FA Youth Cup final teams. Times might have changed with the influx of foreign youngsters and the dominance of a few clubs.

If Everton get to the latter stages, I’d be very encouraged we have a decent one (or two).

 

[Nymzee]

….no but historically some top players were in FA Youth Cup final teams. Times might have changed with the influx of foreign youngsters and the dominance of a few clubs.

If Everton get to the latter stages, I’d be very encouraged we have a decent one (or two).

We can have the best kid in the country and still not make the final. It's football.

Are Coventry and Man United the best teams in the country? (Last season's FA Cup final)