2020/21 Niels Nkounkou

[Nymzee]

Well Carlo has been quite clear about Nkounkou this week , no disciplinary issues , just prefers him to get more experience:
“ "There's no doubt about his professionalism.

"He is really focused in training, he's going to play but in this moment I prefer more experienced players."

The danger with all our young players is we see their exciting bits, forgive their mistakes cos of their age and then compare them with older players who frustrate the hell out of us. I guess we have to accept Carlo’s methods are based upon what he sees in training and what he wants. I’m not sure of his “ I’m not here to develop players .” line though. Somebody has to develop them though , this is a 20 year old kid , too good for the u23s not yet a regular first team squad member hopefully somebody has a plan for him.

Send him to Leipzig, look after him there

 

[TheBigIguana]

Send him to Leipzig, look after him there

Aren't they teaching their LBs to play striker now? Not sure we need that.

 

[Nymzee]

Aren't they teaching their LBs to play striker now? Not sure we need that.

Pretty sure no one here would sniff at their LB.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Pretty sure no one here would sniff at their LB.

Nah I'm playing around because he's their leading scorer too.

 

[DOMNOLAN]

Won't play, probably won't be on the bench. Currently our 6th choice left back (Iwobi, Digne, Kenny, Godfrey, Delph have all now played ahead of him)

Can I have my sticker for being right please

 

[Toast]

I find this a bit weird now.

 

[little elfin]

 

[JMT]

I think he should be included on the bench at least.

 

[micknick]

I think he should be included on the bench at least.

Can be now we have 9 subs on the bench.

 

[Lanolin]

In Germany they don’t care about your age or experience

If you are good enough you start

The likes of Dortmund and Bayern have been doing it for years

Look at Jude Bellingham, Jadon Sancho, Haaland, Alphonso Davies

Pretty sure they'd be starting for us too. The key part of your post is 'if you are good enough'. Wayne Rooney was good enough when he was 16, Leon Osman wasn't good enough until he was 23. Our rush to hail every half decent young player as the saviour of the club is pathetic.

 

[catcherintherye]

Pretty sure they'd be starting for us too. The key part of your post is 'if you are good enough'. Wayne Rooney was good enough when he was 16, Leon Osman wasn't good enough until he was 23. Our rush to hail every half decent young player as the saviour of the club is pathetic.

The other part of this, which is important to mention is Germany is a league whereby the penalties for relegation are not as punitive.

Silva played the youngest team in the league in his tenure here, and nobody really thanked him for it. Ancelotti knows he primarily has to get results.

 

[blueloon]

The other part of this, which is important to mention is Germany is a league whereby the penalties for relegation are not as punitive.

Silva played the youngest team in the league in his tenure here, and nobody really thanked him for it. Ancelotti knows he primarily has to get results.

I must admit my view of Silva is different from yours, from memory we had a long gap between Beningime’s debut ( Koeman/ Unsworth ?) through to Gordon’s ( Carlo) in respect of Academy products being given their chance. I don’t recall Silva taking a chance on any youngsters being touted at the time like Dowell, Robinson , Gibson etc or even talking them up as prospects. At least Carlo has given PL debuts to Gordon, Branthwaite and Nkounkou.

 

[Lanolin]

I must admit my view of Silva is different from yours, from memory we had a long gap between Beningime’s debut ( Koeman/ Unsworth ?) through to Gordon’s ( Carlo) in respect of Academy products being given their chance. I don’t recall Silva taking a chance on any youngsters being touted at the time like Dowell, Robinson , Gibson etc or even talking them up as prospects. At least Carlo has given PL debuts to Gordon, Branthwaite and Nkounkou.

I think the debuts thing is a harsh criteria to use. Only Gordon has been given a debut in the 12 months since Silva left, so it's hardly like a load of players were banging down the door making themselves impossible to ignore. Dowell and Gibson were ignored by managers both before and after Silva, and no PL club wanted to buy Dowell when he was available for a pittance. The logical thing to believe is that they weren't good enough to be picked. Unfortunately many people choose to believe the illogical thing, that they were good enough and were just ignored for some reason.

 

[RomanReigns]

Pretty sure they'd be starting for us too. The key part of your post is 'if you are good enough'. Wayne Rooney was good enough when he was 16, Leon Osman wasn't good enough until he was 23. Our rush to hail every half decent young player as the saviour of the club is pathetic.

Not every half decent young player is linked to Bayern Munich

 

[TheBigIguana]

The other part of this, which is important to mention is Germany is a league whereby the penalties for relegation are not as punitive.

Silva played the youngest team in the league in his tenure here, and nobody really thanked him for it. Ancelotti knows he primarily has to get results.

The misconception in this is that playing young players makes you more likely to get relegated.