06-01-2016, 01:34
The problems with the teams in the PL goes a bit deeper than that as well. Nowadays its all about instant success or definite survival depending at which end of the PL you are at. There is no longer any appetite or time for managers in the PL to develop youth players by actually playing them in games that mean anything, so they are loaned out to see if they can make it. Gone are the days of a manager being as secure in his job as SAF was when he brought through the class of 92, managers now are more in fear of a bad run of results that will cost them their job!!
Look at Southampton for instance, year after year while they were in L1 and the Championship they were developing cracking young players who got into the first team and when they were successful in the team they would then sell them for big bucks. But since they got back to the PL they have brought through hardly any, instead they now use the tv money to buy more established players from abroad and either loan out their youngsters or leave them in the development squad.
Look at Southampton for instance, year after year while they were in L1 and the Championship they were developing cracking young players who got into the first team and when they were successful in the team they would then sell them for big bucks. But since they got back to the PL they have brought through hardly any, instead they now use the tv money to buy more established players from abroad and either loan out their youngsters or leave them in the development squad.