Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
Converse to that though (and I love Poch) he also held a few players back by not loaning them. KWP would probably be our first choice right back now if he had spent last season and the season before out on loan. Skipp could also be a bona-fide first team player. Foyth the same. Players who are already far too good for u19 & u23 football learn nothing from playing in those low intensity games and we learn very little about them. I think all of the young players who came on under Poch had been loaned out to get regular, real, competitive men’s football before making it in our team.... Kane, Rose, Walker, Mason, Dele. 5 players who established themselves in the first team that did do having experienced the rigours of real football elsewhere as young players before making it with us. KWP is a good example, starting to look decent for Southampton now. Imagine having him coming into this season with two plus years of first team football under his belt?Literally NOT what i've said.
He joined a club under a manager who has excelled at improving youth propects. A good fit, clearly talented but needs coaching and improvement.
He's now under a manager who at least in previous years, has not shown the same pedigree in coaching younger players through in such a way. Hence rumours of loans out of the club now circulating.
Under Poch, Spurs could bide their time with younger players because we saw several examples of improvements under him. Under Jose, we need established first teamers and cannot rely on a young player cuttiing his teeth such are the problems and unbalanced nature in the squad. ]
This is why he is now at the club at the wrong time.
I hope Jose loans out every single one of our promising young players for at least a year as part of their development. It helps boys become men, gets then used to proper intensity games, realise that their performance has an impact on things like mortgage payments and therefore never shirk and more often than not take the right option on the pitch as well as realise how good they have it at Spurs so try to make sure they do make it here instead of slipping down the leagues.
Harry had it right with talented young players IMO, Poch, typically, did not.