You should start reading what I'm saying. I don't care what he did, how young his squad is, and what kind of car he is driving. Totally irrelevant. How many youth players has he given a debut to this season? How many youth players debuted against the mighty Tranmere? Or Luton? Or Watford? You still talk about an agenda, can you even read? I'm starting to worry about that. Regarding the bolded, I have never disagreed with that either. So why are you talking about things I don't even discuss?
I think the impression that you have an agenda comes off the fact that you say you only have one question - why Solskjær have not given more debuts this year - and when you have answers for that, you throw in a lot of arguments about other things yourself. That’s how it appears to me, anyway.
To answer that question as straight as possible, I’d say it’s multiple factors working towards that end:
- A large squad, many players need game time to keep the spirit of the group good, and to be more ready for games when injury or rotation calls for it.
- Relations is a key factor in Solskjærs strategy, so the first choice combos (ie Shaw-Rashford) need enough games together to gel, and then second choice combos also need games to gel (ie Shaw-Martial, Shaw-James, Telles-Rashford, Telles-Martial etc). Relations startegy ahead of Fixed movement patterns is more flexible for the tougher games, but more vulnerable to rotation needs.
- The group is already quite young, with several of the attacking key players young for a key player - Rashford, Martial, Greenwood (Yes, Martial is 25, but alas doesn’t seem a mature type, so I guess that counts in). The balance between young age and experience is important.
- Young/inexperienced players like Greenwood, James, Tuanzebe and Williams are way ahead of Garner, Laird, Levitt, Mengi in terms of readiness for PL games, as proven in cameos, in u23games and in training (presumably, we don’t know, coaches do), so the latter are sent on loan to develop better. Behind them there is further distance to the 17-year olds like Mejbri, Hugill and Shoretire.
- Rushing debuts often shows to be detrimental or not important. It’s is not necessarily the best development path, and wether it is depends a lot on the situation of the team and a lot on the psychological traits of the player, both which we don’t know but the coaches do.
As regards to Shoretire, whose thread this is, four weeks ago, he was 16 and the majority of his closer followers on the caf (minus dad) were discussing wether he should drop down to u18 or wether it was positive to have him in the u23s. Four weeks later, he is on the bench in Turin, away to Real Sociedad. Someone like me would see that and think, wow, Solskjær does look to bring young players through!
others,or, not many others, spends the next days complaining about a lack of debuts, as ‘only’ one teenager got his debut in that game.
Maybe you don’t have an agenda, in which case it looks to me that you are quite unrealistic about our youth prospects and about what is normally done at other clubs.