D
Departed
Guest
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?
Can we ask them why they send there quality to Liverpool and us Lamela....
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.
Davies, Lamela, Lucas, Sissoko, Vorm, Foyth & kids
I'm excited to see Oakley Boothe and Georgiou stake a claim for squad places.
Georgiou is the one that many think is on the cusp of a breakthrough.
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.
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.
I would bet, currently, that our academy is much better than that.