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Football Clubs around the world take youngsters into their Academy's for other reasons than to just help get a weekly Reserve team and fill-in that extra vacant space on the Subs' Bench every Saturday afternoon.
When a player is signed up and taken into the arms of the Youth Team coaches and staff, the men nearer the top are already thinking about the future with each new arrival.
Of course, they're not thinking about the possibillity of handing a debut to a new 12 year old in next Saturday's big game - or anything like that! But when it comes to players of around 16 or 17 starting to make a name for themselves in the Youth and even Reserve teams, the manager will take note and start to think about how this player could be used in the near future in First Team Developments.
This is the right way to go. Instead of spending God knows how much on several foreigners from the likes of Spain and Italy, or even Russia and Greece, today's top manangers know that their team can get just what it needs from looking down the club's youth ranks.
But unfortunately, this isn't how every manager thinks, and there are still a vast majority of Gaffers out there who still prefer to spend big, rather than do a bit of looking around and moulding a great player out of someone new and fresh, using his own bare hands and a good deal of hard graft and a good understanding of the youngster in general.
This is what we need for the future - more youngsters being drafted into the first teams of their domestic clubs all around the globe. We already know that there are far too many foreigners in the many leagues around in today's game, and that way too many manager's are seriously weakening their club's financial structure in order to get 'the best'.
I personally don't see why this persist on doing this on such a regular basis. If they were to take just one player and turn him into something great, their name would be up in lights instantly, and the club's fortunes may also rise to follow! But for one reason or another they still prefer to damage the future of home-grown talent, and that country's international pride, by looking abroad for imports.
If you need proof that this systme works then all you have to do is look at what Alex Ferguson has done at Manchester United.
They are without a doubt the world's biggest team, and also one of the most succesfull worldwide. Thanks to Fergie bringing through the likes of Beckham, Butt, Scholes, and the Neville brothers (to name as a select few), Manchester United Football Club has grown and risen proudly to become the club we all love (or hate) today.
Ever since the days of the Busby Babes the developments of youngsters into the First Team has been working like a charm. Even today United stand-by this, with only a select few of Johnny's Foreigners in Fergie's first choice 16-man squads week-in week-out.
Clubs like Arsenal and Chelsea still opt to be different, but they too have had their good times. Only last season did the Gunners lift The Double - and not for the first time in their history either!
Sure, they may have a squad that's packed with Frenchman, but Arséne Wenger still sees sense in fielding the home-grown talents of Campbell, Parlour and co., who are just some of the Gunners 'players of the season'.
Chelsea (and others) on the otherhand do NOT even field more than 2 home-grown Brittish players on a weekly basis, and saving all the promising youngsters for those 'pointless' Worthington Cup games just isn't good enough. If they threw in a Scotsman here, an Englishman there, and maybe even a Welshman at the back, i'm sure they'd be able to stake thay Title Challenge they're always aiming for - but never seems to last more than a few weeks!
Like I said in another of my recent topics, every club needs some kind of foreign influence, but just not too many foreigners. Players from all around the globe give something for the young hopefulls to look up to!
So in my view (and i'm sure many others feel the same way) the future of a ANY domestic country's national side (and not just England's!) relies on the youngsters being brought through to out-shine the hot property foreigners. If managers don't start to act now, then England, Italy, and maybe even a team like France or Brazil will soon become laughable at the world's biggest stage.
Countries like Japan and South Korea who stick with who they've got and can afford could one day be bigger than the best, leaving the rest of us facing-up to 5-0 humiliations with 23-man squads of players who frankly don't have a clue!
What a horrible thought!! :S
So, are you for or against the developments of youth team players into the First Team??
Many clubs are alwasy saying how they're 'doing this' and 'doing that' for their 'future starts', yet they still decide to spend big on Europe's hottest properties.
Surely Jermaine Jenas isn't the last big name we're going to see draghted through, into the first team of one of our top domestic sides!?
When a player is signed up and taken into the arms of the Youth Team coaches and staff, the men nearer the top are already thinking about the future with each new arrival.
Of course, they're not thinking about the possibillity of handing a debut to a new 12 year old in next Saturday's big game - or anything like that! But when it comes to players of around 16 or 17 starting to make a name for themselves in the Youth and even Reserve teams, the manager will take note and start to think about how this player could be used in the near future in First Team Developments.
This is the right way to go. Instead of spending God knows how much on several foreigners from the likes of Spain and Italy, or even Russia and Greece, today's top manangers know that their team can get just what it needs from looking down the club's youth ranks.
But unfortunately, this isn't how every manager thinks, and there are still a vast majority of Gaffers out there who still prefer to spend big, rather than do a bit of looking around and moulding a great player out of someone new and fresh, using his own bare hands and a good deal of hard graft and a good understanding of the youngster in general.
This is what we need for the future - more youngsters being drafted into the first teams of their domestic clubs all around the globe. We already know that there are far too many foreigners in the many leagues around in today's game, and that way too many manager's are seriously weakening their club's financial structure in order to get 'the best'.
I personally don't see why this persist on doing this on such a regular basis. If they were to take just one player and turn him into something great, their name would be up in lights instantly, and the club's fortunes may also rise to follow! But for one reason or another they still prefer to damage the future of home-grown talent, and that country's international pride, by looking abroad for imports.
If you need proof that this systme works then all you have to do is look at what Alex Ferguson has done at Manchester United.
They are without a doubt the world's biggest team, and also one of the most succesfull worldwide. Thanks to Fergie bringing through the likes of Beckham, Butt, Scholes, and the Neville brothers (to name as a select few), Manchester United Football Club has grown and risen proudly to become the club we all love (or hate) today.
Ever since the days of the Busby Babes the developments of youngsters into the First Team has been working like a charm. Even today United stand-by this, with only a select few of Johnny's Foreigners in Fergie's first choice 16-man squads week-in week-out.
Clubs like Arsenal and Chelsea still opt to be different, but they too have had their good times. Only last season did the Gunners lift The Double - and not for the first time in their history either!
Sure, they may have a squad that's packed with Frenchman, but Arséne Wenger still sees sense in fielding the home-grown talents of Campbell, Parlour and co., who are just some of the Gunners 'players of the season'.
Chelsea (and others) on the otherhand do NOT even field more than 2 home-grown Brittish players on a weekly basis, and saving all the promising youngsters for those 'pointless' Worthington Cup games just isn't good enough. If they threw in a Scotsman here, an Englishman there, and maybe even a Welshman at the back, i'm sure they'd be able to stake thay Title Challenge they're always aiming for - but never seems to last more than a few weeks!
Like I said in another of my recent topics, every club needs some kind of foreign influence, but just not too many foreigners. Players from all around the globe give something for the young hopefulls to look up to!
So in my view (and i'm sure many others feel the same way) the future of a ANY domestic country's national side (and not just England's!) relies on the youngsters being brought through to out-shine the hot property foreigners. If managers don't start to act now, then England, Italy, and maybe even a team like France or Brazil will soon become laughable at the world's biggest stage.
Countries like Japan and South Korea who stick with who they've got and can afford could one day be bigger than the best, leaving the rest of us facing-up to 5-0 humiliations with 23-man squads of players who frankly don't have a clue!
What a horrible thought!! :S
So, are you for or against the developments of youth team players into the First Team??
Many clubs are alwasy saying how they're 'doing this' and 'doing that' for their 'future starts', yet they still decide to spend big on Europe's hottest properties.
Surely Jermaine Jenas isn't the last big name we're going to see draghted through, into the first team of one of our top domestic sides!?
Cool. I never new you were that good at football or anything!?
Good luck with your trial by the way - even if you are a Gas Head! :)
But what if you end-up playing for City! ;D
You never know, if it does all go well, maybe you could be in-store for a place in the first team of 'whoever' sometime in the near future.
You've got a better chance if you're a youngster in the lower divisions, than one in a top Premiership team. Look at how many players have made a name for themselves lower down, and then made it upto the top!
Yeah, you could include loads of Rovers players, but even people from clubs like Cambridge United like Trevor Benjamin have got into the Premiership after a breaking in at a young age.
Peter Crouch is another name, and he's also in the England U-21's now!
Good luck with your trial by the way - even if you are a Gas Head! :)
But what if you end-up playing for City! ;D
You never know, if it does all go well, maybe you could be in-store for a place in the first team of 'whoever' sometime in the near future.
You've got a better chance if you're a youngster in the lower divisions, than one in a top Premiership team. Look at how many players have made a name for themselves lower down, and then made it upto the top!
Yeah, you could include loads of Rovers players, but even people from clubs like Cambridge United like Trevor Benjamin have got into the Premiership after a breaking in at a young age.
Peter Crouch is another name, and he's also in the England U-21's now!
i hope it works like that because i just today joined up to a football academy in Bristol. My trial is anytime soon and am looking forward to it.
You never know, i could score the goal that puts Bristol City into the conference.
You never know, i could score the goal that puts Bristol City into the conference.
Football Clubs around the world take youngsters into their Academy's for other reasons than to just help get a weekly Reserve team and fill-in that extra vacant space on the Subs' Bench every Saturday afternoon.
When a player is signed up and taken into the arms of the Youth Team coaches and staff, the men nearer the top are already thinking about the future with each new arrival.
Of course, they're not thinking about the possibillity of handing a debut to a new 12 year old in next Saturday's big game - or anything like that! But when it comes to players of around 16 or 17 starting to make a name for themselves in the Youth and even Reserve teams, the manager will take note and start to think about how this player could be used in the near future in First Team Developments.
This is the right way to go. Instead of spending God knows how much on several foreigners from the likes of Spain and Italy, or even Russia and Greece, today's top manangers know that their team can get just what it needs from looking down the club's youth ranks.
But unfortunately, this isn't how every manager thinks, and there are still a vast majority of Gaffers out there who still prefer to spend big, rather than do a bit of looking around and moulding a great player out of someone new and fresh, using his own bare hands and a good deal of hard graft and a good understanding of the youngster in general.
This is what we need for the future - more youngsters being drafted into the first teams of their domestic clubs all around the globe. We already know that there are far too many foreigners in the many leagues around in today's game, and that way too many manager's are seriously weakening their club's financial structure in order to get 'the best'.
I personally don't see why this persist on doing this on such a regular basis. If they were to take just one player and turn him into something great, their name would be up in lights instantly, and the club's fortunes may also rise to follow! But for one reason or another they still prefer to damage the future of home-grown talent, and that country's international pride, by looking abroad for imports.
If you need proof that this systme works then all you have to do is look at what Alex Ferguson has done at Manchester United.
They are without a doubt the world's biggest team, and also one of the most succesfull worldwide. Thanks to Fergie bringing through the likes of Beckham, Butt, Scholes, and the Neville brothers (to name as a select few), Manchester United Football Club has grown and risen proudly to become the club we all love (or hate) today.
Ever since the days of the Busby Babes the developments of youngsters into the First Team has been working like a charm. Even today United stand-by this, with only a select few of Johnny's Foreigners in Fergie's first choice 16-man squads week-in week-out.
Clubs like Arsenal and Chelsea still opt to be different, but they too have had their good times. Only last season did the Gunners lift The Double - and not for the first time in their history either!
Sure, they may have a squad that's packed with Frenchman, but Arséne Wenger still sees sense in fielding the home-grown talents of Campbell, Parlour and co., who are just some of the Gunners 'players of the season'.
Chelsea (and others) on the otherhand do NOT even field more than 2 home-grown Brittish players on a weekly basis, and saving all the promising youngsters for those 'pointless' Worthington Cup games just isn't good enough. If they threw in a Scotsman here, an Englishman there, and maybe even a Welshman at the back, i'm sure they'd be able to stake thay Title Challenge they're always aiming for - but never seems to last more than a few weeks!
Like I said in another of my recent topics, every club needs some kind of foreign influence, but just not too many foreigners. Players from all around the globe give something for the young hopefulls to look up to!
So in my view (and i'm sure many others feel the same way) the future of a ANY domestic country's national side (and not just England's!) relies on the youngsters being brought through to out-shine the hot property foreigners. If managers don't start to act now, then England, Italy, and maybe even a team like France or Brazil will soon become laughable at the world's biggest stage.
Countries like Japan and South Korea who stick with who they've got and can afford could one day be bigger than the best, leaving the rest of us facing-up to 5-0 humiliations with 23-man squads of players who frankly don't have a clue!
What a horrible thought!! :S
So, are you for or against the developments of youth team players into the First Team??
Many clubs are alwasy saying how they're 'doing this' and 'doing that' for their 'future starts', yet they still decide to spend big on Europe's hottest properties.
Surely Jermaine Jenas isn't the last big name we're going to see draghted through, into the first team of one of our top domestic sides!?
When a player is signed up and taken into the arms of the Youth Team coaches and staff, the men nearer the top are already thinking about the future with each new arrival.
Of course, they're not thinking about the possibillity of handing a debut to a new 12 year old in next Saturday's big game - or anything like that! But when it comes to players of around 16 or 17 starting to make a name for themselves in the Youth and even Reserve teams, the manager will take note and start to think about how this player could be used in the near future in First Team Developments.
This is the right way to go. Instead of spending God knows how much on several foreigners from the likes of Spain and Italy, or even Russia and Greece, today's top manangers know that their team can get just what it needs from looking down the club's youth ranks.
But unfortunately, this isn't how every manager thinks, and there are still a vast majority of Gaffers out there who still prefer to spend big, rather than do a bit of looking around and moulding a great player out of someone new and fresh, using his own bare hands and a good deal of hard graft and a good understanding of the youngster in general.
This is what we need for the future - more youngsters being drafted into the first teams of their domestic clubs all around the globe. We already know that there are far too many foreigners in the many leagues around in today's game, and that way too many manager's are seriously weakening their club's financial structure in order to get 'the best'.
I personally don't see why this persist on doing this on such a regular basis. If they were to take just one player and turn him into something great, their name would be up in lights instantly, and the club's fortunes may also rise to follow! But for one reason or another they still prefer to damage the future of home-grown talent, and that country's international pride, by looking abroad for imports.
If you need proof that this systme works then all you have to do is look at what Alex Ferguson has done at Manchester United.
They are without a doubt the world's biggest team, and also one of the most succesfull worldwide. Thanks to Fergie bringing through the likes of Beckham, Butt, Scholes, and the Neville brothers (to name as a select few), Manchester United Football Club has grown and risen proudly to become the club we all love (or hate) today.
Ever since the days of the Busby Babes the developments of youngsters into the First Team has been working like a charm. Even today United stand-by this, with only a select few of Johnny's Foreigners in Fergie's first choice 16-man squads week-in week-out.
Clubs like Arsenal and Chelsea still opt to be different, but they too have had their good times. Only last season did the Gunners lift The Double - and not for the first time in their history either!
Sure, they may have a squad that's packed with Frenchman, but Arséne Wenger still sees sense in fielding the home-grown talents of Campbell, Parlour and co., who are just some of the Gunners 'players of the season'.
Chelsea (and others) on the otherhand do NOT even field more than 2 home-grown Brittish players on a weekly basis, and saving all the promising youngsters for those 'pointless' Worthington Cup games just isn't good enough. If they threw in a Scotsman here, an Englishman there, and maybe even a Welshman at the back, i'm sure they'd be able to stake thay Title Challenge they're always aiming for - but never seems to last more than a few weeks!
Like I said in another of my recent topics, every club needs some kind of foreign influence, but just not too many foreigners. Players from all around the globe give something for the young hopefulls to look up to!
So in my view (and i'm sure many others feel the same way) the future of a ANY domestic country's national side (and not just England's!) relies on the youngsters being brought through to out-shine the hot property foreigners. If managers don't start to act now, then England, Italy, and maybe even a team like France or Brazil will soon become laughable at the world's biggest stage.
Countries like Japan and South Korea who stick with who they've got and can afford could one day be bigger than the best, leaving the rest of us facing-up to 5-0 humiliations with 23-man squads of players who frankly don't have a clue!
What a horrible thought!! :S
So, are you for or against the developments of youth team players into the First Team??
Many clubs are alwasy saying how they're 'doing this' and 'doing that' for their 'future starts', yet they still decide to spend big on Europe's hottest properties.
Surely Jermaine Jenas isn't the last big name we're going to see draghted through, into the first team of one of our top domestic sides!?