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Kicking off the 2018/19 season soon. 
Ok...so who is travelling to the US and what will the line up be?
Ok...so who is travelling to the US and what will the line up be?
freundorfoe
Vital 1st Team Regular
Davies, Lamela, Lucas, Sissoko, Vorm, Foyth & kids
I'm excited to see Oakley Boothe and Georgiou stake a claim for squad places.
I'm excited to see Oakley Boothe and Georgiou stake a claim for squad places.
I actually like Lamela. He gives us quality depth and options. We need that.
I am pissed we haven't went after a serious DM. This will come to hurt us...
And another true striker.
I actually like him too he has not peaked but given a swap for Salha or Alisson he loses.
freundorfoe
Vital 1st Team Regular
fair with Salah...
Alisson looks good on paper, hopefully he'll be an expensive flop though.
Alisson looks good on paper, hopefully he'll be an expensive flop though.
Matic
Alert Team
What an opportunity missed to give Griffith's a chance to show what he's got. No Kane for this tour and Llorente is dead weight so we've taken Sterling, who Poch takes on every tour and then never gives a chance in the season. Why do we have such a fear of giving players lower down in our set up a chance?
Spursex
Alert Team
Georgiou is the one that many think is on the cusp of a breakthrough.
freundorfoe
Vital 1st Team Regular
Oakley Boothe and Tanganga are meant to be on the cusp too. Nice to have strong attacking and defensive players coming through who may make the step up.
Matic
Alert Team
Much the same was said of him after last preseason. He really impressed the fans but wasn't given a chance, which was a massive shame. I always feel Poch is much less likely to take a risk on a younger attacking player than a younger defensive player.
freundorfoe
Vital 1st Team Regular
Dele might argue with you. KWP in the other direction.
I think now we're a CL team he's less likely to risk a youngster in general which is a shame but probably sensible for our level.
I think now we're a CL team he's less likely to risk a youngster in general which is a shame but probably sensible for our level.
muttley
Alert Team
Here's a glimpse into the future for most of the younger lads selected for the US. This is the equivalent set of players from 2 years ago:
Dominic Ball 22 - sold to Rotherham, played 13 games and managed 16 games on loan last season for Aberdeen
Will Miller 22 - loan to Burton Albion and moved there permanently last season
Luke McGee 22 - Portsmouth's permanent GK last season
Tom Glover 20 - Still at Spurs, 4 appearance at Central Coast Mariners last season
Luke Amos 21 - Still at Spurs, loans to Southend and Stevenage last season. Currently in US.
Anton Walkes 21 - went to MLS, just sold to Pompey
Shayon Harrison 21 - still at Spurs (I think). Did nothing on loan at Yeovil and Southend.
Marcus Edwards 19 - no comment required
In that same traveling squad were KWP, Winks, CCV, Onomah. Winks is obviously a first team regular and has played for England. The other 3 are on the fringes and have had some 1st team games between them. The rest are probably guaranteed a career in professional football but will never play for the Spurs first team in the future.
It's a tough ask for Giorgiou, Skipp, O-Boothe, Sterling etc. I really hope 2 or 3 crack it like Winks and Kane have.
Dominic Ball 22 - sold to Rotherham, played 13 games and managed 16 games on loan last season for Aberdeen
Will Miller 22 - loan to Burton Albion and moved there permanently last season
Luke McGee 22 - Portsmouth's permanent GK last season
Tom Glover 20 - Still at Spurs, 4 appearance at Central Coast Mariners last season
Luke Amos 21 - Still at Spurs, loans to Southend and Stevenage last season. Currently in US.
Anton Walkes 21 - went to MLS, just sold to Pompey
Shayon Harrison 21 - still at Spurs (I think). Did nothing on loan at Yeovil and Southend.
Marcus Edwards 19 - no comment required
In that same traveling squad were KWP, Winks, CCV, Onomah. Winks is obviously a first team regular and has played for England. The other 3 are on the fringes and have had some 1st team games between them. The rest are probably guaranteed a career in professional football but will never play for the Spurs first team in the future.
It's a tough ask for Giorgiou, Skipp, O-Boothe, Sterling etc. I really hope 2 or 3 crack it like Winks and Kane have.
Spursex
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This is what the odds of making it from the Academy to being a PL footballer are......
I would recommend the book to ALL the critics of our academy...I now work very closely with an academy, and whilst it makes significant profits - getting a lad into a PL squad straight from an academy is getting rarer and rarer in the PL as the bar is set ever higher.....
http://uk.businessinsider.com/micha...demies-will-never-succeed-soccer-sport-2017-6
Children at football academies are more likely to 'get hit by a meteorite' than succeed as professionals – here’s the shocking statistic
Business Insider UK spoke to Michael Calvin, author of the book "No Hunger in Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream," about how children enrolled in academies have a very small chance of succeeding as professional footballers.
Here's a transcript of the video:
Academies of their very essence are a good idea. Get the best players, give them the best coaches in the best potential environment.
The problem is that the ills of senior football – greed, opportunism, the stockpiling of talent unnecessarily for commercial gain – are seeping down into junior football.
That's what's happening in the academies of the major clubs where boys are going in, they're sucked into the system. They're taken over by the dream.
But, realistically, all they would do is sit there and wait for a chance that will never come.
The statistics are really sobering. Out of all the boys who enter an academy at the age of 9, less than half of 1% make it. Or a make a living from the game either.
The most damning statistic of all is only 180 of the 1.5 million players who are playing organised youth football in England at any one time will make it as a Premier League pro.
That's a success rate of 0.012%.
Pretty much the sort of chances of you being hit by a meteorite on your way home.
Produced by Claudia Romeo. Filmed by David Ibekwe.
muttley
Alert Team
This is what the odds of making it from the Academy to being a PL footballer are......
I would recommend the book to ALL the critics of our academy...I now work very closely with an academy, and whilst it makes significant profits - getting a lad into a PL squad straight from an academy is getting rarer and rarer in the PL as the bar is set ever higher.....
http://uk.businessinsider.com/micha...demies-will-never-succeed-soccer-sport-2017-6
Children at football academies are more likely to 'get hit by a meteorite' than succeed as professionals – here’s the shocking statistic
Business Insider UK spoke to Michael Calvin, author of the book "No Hunger in Paradise: The Players. The Journey. The Dream," about how children enrolled in academies have a very small chance of succeeding as professional footballers.
Here's a transcript of the video:
Academies of their very essence are a good idea. Get the best players, give them the best coaches in the best potential environment.
The problem is that the ills of senior football – greed, opportunism, the stockpiling of talent unnecessarily for commercial gain – are seeping down into junior football.
That's what's happening in the academies of the major clubs where boys are going in, they're sucked into the system. They're taken over by the dream.
But, realistically, all they would do is sit there and wait for a chance that will never come.
The statistics are really sobering. Out of all the boys who enter an academy at the age of 9, less than half of 1% make it. Or a make a living from the game either.
The most damning statistic of all is only 180 of the 1.5 million players who are playing organised youth football in England at any one time will make it as a Premier League pro.
That's a success rate of 0.012%.
Pretty much the sort of chances of you being hit by a meteorite on your way home.
Produced by Claudia Romeo. Filmed by David Ibekwe.
But the good news is if you make Pochs pre-season squad to the US then you'll at least have a 90%+ chance of making your living out of football for the next 5 years. That's still better than most.
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I would bet, currently, that our academy is much better than that.
Spursex
Alert Team
and you'd be right.
muttley
Alert Team
Also, if you can't make it, then get inspired by Carlos Kaiser - http://www.sportbible.com/football/...st-footballer-never-to-play-football-20180721
A genuine conman, he couldn't play football to save his life but managed a 26-year career in the game, moving from club to club and living his life as though he was a world star.
They've just made a film / documentary about his life opening at a few cinemas in London this weekend.
A genuine conman, he couldn't play football to save his life but managed a 26-year career in the game, moving from club to club and living his life as though he was a world star.
They've just made a film / documentary about his life opening at a few cinemas in London this weekend.
