The Barcelona Way...

dcl0sc · 31st May 2011, 10:31 AM

How difficult would it be, for our academies to teach young players to produce football like the best club side in the world?

The EPL academies must surely now use the Barca. academy as a benchmark. I fear they won't though as the current EPL product sells and that’s based purely on size, pace, power and less on ability....

I would gladly pay £1000 for a season ticket, without question, if that was the product I was buying into...

GK · 31st May 2011, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by dcl0sc

How difficult would it be, for our academies to teach young players to produce football like the best club side in the world?

The EPL academies must surely now use the Barca. academy as a benchmark. I fear they won't though as the current EPL product sells and that’s based purely on size, pace, power and less on ability....

I would gladly pay £1000 for a season ticket, without question, if that was the product I was buying into...

English clubs find it hard to steal the best youngsters from South America and Spain so it'd be hard to emulate Barca

KM93 · 31st May 2011, 10:34 AM

I can't imagine it to be that difficult to teach kids to dive at every opportunity and clutch your face, having a cheeky peek through your hands for the ref.

TartanMackem · 31st May 2011, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by GK

English clubs find it hard to steal the best youngsters from South America and Spain so it'd be hard to emulate Barca

It's pretty hard to steal any youngster from South America or anywhere else these days, even for the Spanish.

dcl0sc · 31st May 2011, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by GK

English clubs find it hard to steal the best youngsters from South America and Spain so it'd be hard to emulate Barca

Should we not start from stratch with our own kids. I'm sure given the right guidance they would be just as capable....

Giddup Sausage! · 31st May 2011, 10:37 AM

Teaching them the basics would do for starters. The amount of footballers that cannot grasp a basic pass n move is shocking.

TartanMackem · 31st May 2011, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by dcl0sc

How difficult would it be, for our academies to teach young players to produce football like the best club side in the world?

The EPL academies must surely now use the Barca. academy as a benchmark. I fear they won't though as the current EPL product sells and that’s based purely on size, pace, power and less on ability....

I would gladly pay £1000 for a season ticket, without question, if that was the product I was buying into...

Before that English clubs used Clairefontein and the Ajax Academy as the benchmark, and the model. It didn't do them much good. Following someone elses lead, and actually recreating what they do are completely different things.

These places have their own culture and philosophy that can't just be mimicked.

dcl0sc · 31st May 2011, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Maggy

I can't imagine it to be that difficult to teach kids to dive at every opportunity and clutch your face, having a cheeky peek through your hands for the ref.

Look at the bigger picture mate....

Yes I agree, I don't want the cheating apsect of their game, but I'm actually on about the beautiful football they play.

Pete B · 31st May 2011, 10:41 AM

most clubs would sack their academy staff if they didn't produce a couple of players after 18 months. Thank the lord we've had Sir Bob Murray and Niall Quinn to allow our academy to bear fruit and start to produce good players

SAFC11 · 31st May 2011, 10:48 AM

theirs only a few clubs in england that seem to give their academy the chance to produce. We now seem to be one. But obviously Arsenal are the prime example, They just need a couple of experienced and physical players. If Arsenal had Puyol and Pique as their CBs i think they would have won the league this year