This notion that you lose nothing from experimenting with youngsters is utterly wrong. Imagine that you play them and the results aren't good. What happens then? Persist with them and languish in mid-table? Or drop them and appologise to the experienced players and beg them to save your ass? How much time will you give the youngsters to prove themselves whithout writing the season off? Ole would be a laughing stock if he plays the youngsters and makes United a midtable team. There is a hierarchy in the team. You can't just take an experienced player off and replace him with a kid. If you do it and the kid is poor, you are finished as a manager.
Ole has it pretty tough, doesn't he? Other than actual football and results he seems to be judged pretty harshly based on giving playing time to like 5 players with virtually no PL experience (and most of them any at all at men level) - Gomes, Greenwood, Garner, Tuanzebe and now I'm reading in the Brandom Williams thread about how he should leave if he doesn't play him over Young.
It's actually ridiculous, that amount of youngsters from one group rarely develops to top team level, let alone delivering with their first involvements. This is just bound to end in Mcnair/Blackett/Borthwick-Jackson way looking at some people's expectations towards the boys. Pereira looked outstanding at youth level, even did very well with Valencia as well. Now everyone's calling him useless. Same with Mctominay. Showed a lot of improvement, fought his way into the first eleven and after 2 questionable appearances the tone quickly changed.
Was he supposed to say this is not his team and he will never play young players so he doesn't get shit about this?