Norwich Exile
Central Defender
Norwich sacked every former professional in their academy when Webber took over as DoF. Instantly eliminated any connection to past methods and ways of thinking/coaching. made all academy teams play the exact same way. Emphasis on creating two players for every position. Hopefully one to keep and one to sell. Working a treat. Hopefully this is what we have in store added to the statistics for recruitment into that philosophy.A few clubs are ditching their academy, which for many clubs do not pay their way in terms of the number of players coming through into their first team squads or good enough to sell on.
Brentford’s philosophy is to basically cherry pick excellent talent from good clubs where they just don’t get the chance they deserve.
Kristian Speakman has already said there’ll be a big emphasis on our academy, so if this is the case the whole place needs wholescale staff changes which means the likes of Dickman should be replaced as he is another SAFC staff member who has been around too long without justifying the length of his time at SAFC.