Premiership Managers On Failing Youth Academies

[Monkster]

Ok that is a fair comment, perhaps I should have worded my statement thus:

Basically the Premiership doesn't give as much importance to bringing on young English talent as it used to 5-10 years ago.

Agreed

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Can you blame them £7 million for Ashton?! - Even Pardew said they had been done.
£21 million for swp?
WBA want 10million for Davis
Soton 10 for bates - you could buy an international with 50 caps for less than half that.

No I don't blame them at all, look how much Zola cost Chelsea!
As I said in a previous post it is the agents that are at fault, they are putting to high a price on young English talent, so naturally the Premiership clubs will go for cheaper overseas talent.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Killing agents is the answer. FACT

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

http://www.premierleague.com/fapl.r...ies Bulletin&breadcrumb=acadbullet_breadcrumb

Not one mention that the Academies were set for HOMEGROWN players

Read this then:

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/ElitePlayerDevelopment/

It talks about " The game's future, from a domestic point of view as well as from the perspective of a successful England senior side, depends upon ensuring that the best young players are given every opportunity to fulfil their talent and potential."

Read it all as it also talks about acadamies and centres of excellence.

 

[Monkster]

Read this then:

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/ElitePlayerDevelopment/

It talks about " The game's future, from a domestic point of view as well as from the perspective of a successful England senior side, depends upon ensuring that the best young players are given every opportunity to fulfil their talent and potential."

Read it all as it also talks about acadamies and centres of excellence.

Very interesting......But the FA royally f*cked up in a number of areas

1) F*ucking up the planned move from Lilleshall to Burton

2) getting rid of the FA centre of Excellence

3) The Academies are PREMIERSHIP academies, intent on growing the number of yooth players for the Premiership licensed by the FA, NOT FA academies intended to supply the FA with players for it's teams

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Very interesting......But the FA royally f*cked up in a number of areas

1) F*ucking up the planned move from Lilleshall to Burton

2) getting rid of the FA centre of Excellence

3) The Academies are PREMIERSHIP academies, intent on growing the number of yooth players for the Premiership licensed by the FA, NOT FA academies intended to supply the FA with players for it's teams

Agreed.
The FA doesn't seem to have control of the acadamies anymore. They are run by the Premiership as you say. The day the Centre Of Excellence was closed was a bad day. The FA should have spent some of the money on Wembley on the new centre at Burton. How much money is around in top flight football these days yet they still can't build the centre at Burton?

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

The main point about this thread is that Premeiership managers like Ferguson are saying that acadamies aren't working.
What reason has Ferguson given for them not working?

Here is the article from the BBC, I have read it and agree with alot of what Ferguson is saying. The most eye opening is that because clubs can't take players more than 90 mins away they are going abroad for youngsters!!
It seems though that a lot of it is down to funding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6369021.stm

Here is an article from a year ago which talks about the lack of funding too:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1714868,00.html

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

To be fair to Sir Alex if he doesnt think they are working the chances are they are not - nobody knows youth better than him - well apart from Rix maybe.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

To be fair to Sir Alex if he doesnt think they are working the chances are they are not - nobody knows youth better than him - well apart from Rix maybe.

Yeah Rix is a class act with the youth of today!!!!
Honest guv she looked eighteen!
But back to serious side, you are correct, we have to listen to Ferguson on this one as he has a tremendous amount of experience on developing young players.