Originally posted by Waz:
<strong>I haer that youngsters don`t like going to MUFC because they know they won`t make the first team.
You have to be very special,so they go to other lower clubs that they know they will progress quicker.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I would think that this argument is one created in their heads by scouts from other clubs. Name any Premiership first team with more players that have come up through the ranks than United? (Beckham, Giggs, Scholes, Butt, Gazz, Phiz, O'Shea, Brown, Chadwick).
And those that failed to make the grade at United can hardly be said to have suffered from their experience with the likes of Gillespie, Savage, Curtis, Healey, Macken, Notman, Wilson, Greening, Higginbotham, Appleton, Cooke all still involved in the higher echellons of the game hell even Goater still gets a game. Again few clubs could make such a comparison, how many Liverpool or Arsenal cast offs can you pick out in the top 2 leagues.
We were never likely to see the same return from youth year on year as we did from '92 and I have been dissapointed that there have been relatively few prospects breaking through of late, but to say that youngsters don't want to come to United is a joke and I am sure anyone with sense would see through the jealous words of scouts from other clubs looking to put the boot in.
To any young kid looking to join United, the simple question has to be "Do you want to be the best?" and "Do you believe you can be the best?", if the answer to both is "Yes" then they should see no obstacles, if either answer is "No" then they don't belong at United anyway.
