The point is the the best English player by a country mile is Dele Alli. Where was he produced? What is different about him? He played the lower leagues at 17. PLAYED!
In Divisions One and and Two if a club can do its job developing players properly it can have three or more 18-20 year-olds in its Saturday eighteen that it has produced itself rather than imported from some random club with which someone has a tenuous connection.
Loans are just a broken developmental system attempting to survive. They are better than nothing but you learn games by playing them.
Imagine Dancing has an apprentice at his company looking promising. Does he decide I'll send him to that tin-pot firm down the road, that has no record of successful staff-training, and then not even insist that they let the lad do the job, but instead make him spend his time sitting back watching the tin-pot outfit's regulars come up with their usual bodged efforts?
Dancing would have to be mental, but that's what we're doing with Ricky German and it happens all the time in English football.
Small clubs like ours have an advantage in development because we can give individual attention and offer a school-leaver a decent (rather than a dog's) chance of playing in the league. Luckily Pooch it sounds as though we won't have to wait for GC's fearful attempt to develop Joe Rowley a hundred miles from home.
GC does look like Ken and I'm sure DA smells of strawberries.
In Divisions One and and Two if a club can do its job developing players properly it can have three or more 18-20 year-olds in its Saturday eighteen that it has produced itself rather than imported from some random club with which someone has a tenuous connection.
Loans are just a broken developmental system attempting to survive. They are better than nothing but you learn games by playing them.
Imagine Dancing has an apprentice at his company looking promising. Does he decide I'll send him to that tin-pot firm down the road, that has no record of successful staff-training, and then not even insist that they let the lad do the job, but instead make him spend his time sitting back watching the tin-pot outfit's regulars come up with their usual bodged efforts?
Dancing would have to be mental, but that's what we're doing with Ricky German and it happens all the time in English football.
Small clubs like ours have an advantage in development because we can give individual attention and offer a school-leaver a decent (rather than a dog's) chance of playing in the league. Luckily Pooch it sounds as though we won't have to wait for GC's fearful attempt to develop Joe Rowley a hundred miles from home.
GC does look like Ken and I'm sure DA smells of strawberries.