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in what capacity are they being brought over (trails?? pre contracts??) SD ... mentioned work permits???Good one that - I forgot about the Sartori involvement with the academy, keen to hear Reid's perspective on it.
He's gone - his Dad (assume it's his Dad) posted this on Twitter a week or so ago:
"Good to see him sign, but there was no desertion from Luca,SAFC could just have said NO they had to agree to the approach but let’s be honest they were happy to let it happen. Despite what Stewart Donald says and I really like him for our club."
Light relief: Bally, Cana and Catts get into a scrap... Who emerges victorious?
(Now prove it...)
LOL. Indeed.
They won't have the balls.Can you ask why the likes of McNamee, Ball, Dickman jrs were all within the academy without a hope of carving out a career and is there any plans to prevent such nepotism in the future?
That's a good question actually and you could put an academy slant on as well - should young players specialise in one position or be comfortable in more than one (obviously pros and cons - tactical understanding, more chances in the team but can become jack of all trades etc)LOL. Indeed.
I liked bally at centre back, and he turned into a good midfielder. But you could ask him about that transition.
Reid had put him into midfield and paired Ord with melville at the back, leaving no place in defence for ball. To start with it wasn't pretty.
There was a game early on in the promotion season at roker when he was sent off against Southend, and bally was miles off looking comfortable in the midfield.
Would be interesting to see if he recalls it.
Bally - Did you nearly shit yourself with your tackle in the derby game at SJP and the ball came back off our crossbar bar from 40 yards.
Any more? Final call!
How many players have we actually lost to other clubs those summer? e.g Greenwood and Stephenson
Will more u23 players be heading out on loan even though it may weaken the team further?
NoiceAll done - really brilliant conversation, loved hearing about the inner workings of the academy.
It'll be out tonight!
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Good stuff.
1) Have they prepared and discussed a five-year plan on how the current youth players can be integrated into the first team? If so has this plan been discussed with the first team management, did they have input into it?
2) Is Luca Stephenson still at the academy? What happened with Liverpool? If he is, what steps were taken to argue this was the right place for him?
3) An overview of how we scout youngsters of others clubs in the UK. Are we planning to invest further in this area?
4) Are there plans in place to scout foreign youngsters? Joel Asoro was a success, but I believe that was led by a chap who had contacts, assuming we don't have those contacts now, how would we go about replicating that far-reaching information?
4b) We used to have young players from Trinidad & Tobago over for a couple of weeks, any plans in place to do so again or even do more from different countries?
4c) I believe we have acadamy's In a couple of different companies, are these created in the hope of developing a player able to play here or more so to improve our "brand"?
4d) Satori spoke about South American kids coming over. Donald spoke about the logistical issues with this. Has this been spoken about properly or is it just an idea?
5) Are we looking to replicate any type of model like Bilbao's, if so, have we made any contact with them to gain knowledge of how to do so?