Murder on Zidane's Floor
You'd better not kill Giroud
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Just been thinking about how we are a club that "gives youth a chance" and that produces exceptional young talent via the academy.
Suddenly dawned on me post Co92, what youth players have we produced which have been exceptional? Not even world class, just good enough for a club of our size and stature that we didn't buy at 18...
Looking back on an era most would like to go back to, 07/08, our team looked like this;
VDS, Brown, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Scholes, Carrick, Park, Tevez, Ronaldo, Rooney.
One youth player from a graduating class sixteen years earlier and a player who made his debut ten years before.
Is the reality more that we don't regularly produce youth players good enough and the Co92 was a fluke?
Suddenly dawned on me post Co92, what youth players have we produced which have been exceptional? Not even world class, just good enough for a club of our size and stature that we didn't buy at 18...
Looking back on an era most would like to go back to, 07/08, our team looked like this;
VDS, Brown, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Scholes, Carrick, Park, Tevez, Ronaldo, Rooney.
One youth player from a graduating class sixteen years earlier and a player who made his debut ten years before.
Is the reality more that we don't regularly produce youth players good enough and the Co92 was a fluke?