Managing young players

[Skills]

We're a bit of a blackhole for talent, and our mismanagement of young players has been going for a long while now. How do we correct this going forward?

Case in point - we bought Diogo Dalot for £19m in summer 2018. He was obviously not going to be the finished product, and whatever the logic behind the signing was - it was quickly forgotten when we signed a 21 year AWB for £50m the summer after. AWB himself was far from a finished product - both need development and game time to actually improve, so how do these signings make any sense in consecutive seasons?

On top of that both have been awfully managed - Dalot for the lack of game time, and AWB's game has had close to no development in almost 3 years. If we were going to buy WIP players, surely someone should be accountable for you know actually improving them?

You can go back to the terrible management of Shaw and Martial a few years ago. We almost buy young players for the sake of it, have absolutely no plan on how to improve or development then and then leave them to the mercy of whoever the manager is.

 

[Sky1981]

We're a bit of a blackhole for talent, and our mismanagement of young players has been going for a long while now. How do we correct this going forward?

Case in point - we bought Diogo Dalot for £19m in summer 2018. He was obviously not going to be the finished product, and whatever the logic behind the signing was - it was quickly forgotten when we signed a 21 year AWB for £50m the summer after. AWB himself was far from a finished product - both need development and game time to actually improve, so how do these signings make any sense in consecutive seasons?

On top of that both have been awfully managed - Dalot for the lack of game time, and AWB's game has had close to no development in almost 3 years. If we were going to buy WIP players, surely someone should be accountable for you know actually improving them?

You can go back to the terrible management of Shaw and Martial a few years ago. We almost buy young players for the sake of it, have absolutely no plan on how to improve or development then and then leave them to the mercy of whoever the manager is.

Or maybe we just suck at identifying proper talent. What we thought as talent turns out to be rubbish. Was it due to our mismanagement or were they rubbish to begin with.

Many youngster shows promises but most of them are just flash in the pan.

Was martial really that good? Was daniel james? I'd say they just have the unknown advantage and teams still dont understand their game but once teams figured out daniel james he lost his edge. Same with bruno now that teams kinds familiar with his gamestyle he become less effective

I vividly remember depay was unplayable in his first few games but the lack of proper technique means he kept on doing the same trick over and over and teams found him out.

Ronaldo and rooney was more than one trick pony even if they excel in a few tricks better than the other.

I'd say it's more important to buy a player with solid tactical brain, dependable physique to start with instead of buying the player of the season type of player

 

[luke511]

I've heard they have a Mata shaped dart board in the U23's dressing room.

 

[JPRouve]

Or maybe we just suck at identifying proper talent. What we thought as talent turns out to be rubbish. Was it due to our mismanagement or were they rubbish to begin with.

Many youngster shows promises but most of them are just flash in the pan.

Was martial really that good? Was daniel james? I'd say they just have the unknown advantage and teams still dont understand their game but once teams figured out daniel james he lost his edge. Same with bruno now that teams kinds familiar with his gamestyle he become less effective

I vividly remember depay was unplayable in his first few games but the lack of proper technique means he kept on doing the same trick over and over and teams found him out.

Ronaldo and rooney was more than one trick pony even if they excel in a few tricks better than the other.

I'd say it's more important to buy a player with solid tactical brain, dependable physique to start with instead of buying the player of the season type of player

In other word coaches are only around to put names on teamsheet and/or act has personal shoppers? It that's the case they deserve zero credit or money.

 

[flappyjay]

It's seems like a sink or swim approach. Martial's game hasn't changed from when he 1st came. It's either he is thick and ignores the coaches advice or no one has ever tried to improve his movement in and around the box. Figure it out for your self. Jose wanted Lukaku to be a target man, did our coaches ever try to help him with this? we will never know. But he did improve this aspect of his game in Italy.