Is there any circumstance at all where Redcafe can see an academy player and be allowed to think he’s not a future United player before watching him get his supposed birthright entitlement of a few seasons in the first team first? I’m genuinely curious of this, as the reaction is always the same to anyone who dares. Do you have any sort of standard for Manchester United that players are required to meet? 9 times out of 10 these players end up mid table or below, but the reaction to anyone saying they don’t see a United player in them will forever be the same.
Perhaps you should get a grip. I don’t need a few seasons to form an opinion. If my opinion is different in a few seasons, I’ll say it is at the time. What happens is the likes of yourselves declares everyone a future first teamer, draw up your silly formations and make your ‘we could have a first XI with a,b,c,d,e and f in three years’ threads and in three years are giving them far more vitriolic abuse than I am giving now, while moving on to the next tough-tackling braveheart you saw in the FA Youth Cup. You only have to look at how majority of grads who are somehow still here after the age of 23 are discussed over recent years. Perhaps you should learn something from those experiences. This is not surprising anyway in a nation that raises kids on participation prizes.
Thanks for the reply but considerably wide of the mark. I don't declare every single U23 as a dead cert for the first team. So good assumption but completely inaccurate.
See this is the issue with the modern fan or maybe in a Microcosm, the Caf. A player has a few good games and he is heralded as the next Roberto Carlos. He has a stinker and he is 'Not Good Enough, NEXT !!'
With Williams, he had a poor game tonight, absolutely without a shadow of a doubt. Does that mean he is not good enough? No, Does that mean he won't learn from it? well, I bloody well hope not. Setbacks, three or four bad games and time on the bench is a good thing at that age. That's part of being a young footballer, learning from individual mistakes, different positional play, different formations, learning from defeat and taking each game as an experience.
He reads the game well
for his age, and in most cases, he takes up good positions both defensively and offensively
. He can play in a back 4 but is found lacking in a back 3 playing as a Wing Back rather than a modern or orthodox full-back.
But hey what do I know. I guess a couple of FA coaching badges and ten years plus years on the sidelines with Junior, Under 18 and Under 23 amateur football taught me nothing about how Juniors develop into adult footballers.
Have I won my 'Participation Prize'
; even though Pogba should have won it).