Isn't the younger generation of English players considered some of the best in Europe? There's a reason why Sancho was bought by Dortmund and thrived, and Madrid snapped up Brahim Diaz. Bayern were in heavy for CHO. There are many more examples of good young English talent.
I'm pretty sure Brahim Diaz is Spanish, so far Sancho is the only one to actually do anything at club level but there was interest in Hudson-Odoi, however I wouldn't class him on the same technical level as Sancho, he's more that fast, athletic type in the mold of Bale IMO. Overall though there isn't a wealth of british talent being hunted all over Europe.
I would disagree with that. Also there's a reason why I said culture instead of country of birth because I know the difference like you've mentioned haha. You've kind of contradicted yourself by saying strong teams are rich in culture and philosophies, but us trying to recreate that environment is a "desperate attempt to recreate the fergie day's"? He's a good english talent in a position that needs addressing, there have been great technical English CMs in the past and there will be in the future.
I don't see how I contradicted myself, my point was that the strong culture has nothing to do with where the players were born, you get the best talent with the best mentality regardless of their place of birth, that's what the best team in our country did and they hardly use any English players. Trying to go backwards instead of forwards rarely ever works and this sudden attempt to turn United into a mini England isn't the way to go IMO.
As a very general rule, probably true but there's still good British talent out there and I guess we have to trust Ole/scouts.
While never a reason to ignore ability completely, there is always the risk of a young foreign player not settling abroad and that may be one consideration for buying some British players as long as similar (or close to) price/ability/potential of similar foreign players.
In terms of their experience/number of games.... yes, that's definitely a risk. Again, got to hope scouting done.
My ideal is a couple of young players and four more established ones. Can't see it though unfortunately.
Truth is I'm short on trust and hope right now as we still don't even have a DOF, something we were told would happen before the manager was appointed, just another lie from this board, and we've done the trusting the manager/scouts thing with LvG and Mourinho, both vastly more proven than Ole and Phelan, and we got nowhere.
Ole is a shot in the dark who got the job when professional buinessmen got gassed like fanboys after a dozen games, and as I said we haven't even put a top DOF in place to help him and his total lack of experience. It just feels like the gameplan is to try and copy/paste Fergie's ideas from a bygone era, rather than bring something fresh to the club.
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