01-08-2016, 15:45
I reckon as usual the football authorities are way behind the times. They are worried about the opportunities for young players, but they've set young at 21. Premier League sides themselves clearly want young players from 17 upwards to experience competitive matches against players of all ages. That's why there are so many young players of 17, 18 and 19 playing in Divisions One and Two on loan. If the divide had been under 20 at the start of the season I could have seen the point ...... but another year on just encourages development football ad infinitum. A bunch of 17-19 year olds in against a wily set of old pros from Millwall might learn something, but why stretch childhood any further? You just get a crop of infantile failures not good enough for the top and still too immature to make it in Division One.
Take Reece Mitchell - 20, spent seasons at Chelsea, now he's come to us and he's looking at being a fringe player only. Wouldn't you guess he ought to be a potential star for us? Do you think he'd be a better player if he'd have come to us two years ago, become a squad player, getting substitute appearances and maybe more? He's lost two years playing kiddie tik-tak footie "the right way" as failed English coaches are so keen to tell us.
Take Reece Mitchell - 20, spent seasons at Chelsea, now he's come to us and he's looking at being a fringe player only. Wouldn't you guess he ought to be a potential star for us? Do you think he'd be a better player if he'd have come to us two years ago, become a squad player, getting substitute appearances and maybe more? He's lost two years playing kiddie tik-tak footie "the right way" as failed English coaches are so keen to tell us.