Honestly they should be doing everything to get these guys somewhere. Pay all the wages. Send them to the conference. Whatever is necessary to get them playing open age football and not just against youth players.
No offence but you can tell you’re not au fait with the English football pyramid. An 18 year old absolutely does not need to be playing in the conference, they probably wouldn’t get picked and if they did they’d spend far too much time trying to compensate for their lack of physicality and nowhere near enough time working on their skills. There’s a reason why pretty much no teams do what you’re suggesting.
Ok but something we are doing currently isn't working. I understand that lower leagues tend to be more physical over skill but that can have benefits. Playing u23s for multiple years isn't going to cut it.
I agree to a point, but I think sometimes people get a bit obsessed with loans.
I kind of agree the loan thing doesn't always work either it just seems like for Everton specifically no one is coming through the u23s to the first team but maybe that's just a case of not being good enough regardless.
Always seemed to get an injury when on the verge of maybe being in the first team squad great talent hopefully he can make his way up again
I seem to remember Walsh getting back into the England set up at the end of a season, picking up another injury and missing out . It may have been the U20s World Cup. Six months later and he was gone.
The day that Tom Davies made his Everton debut Liam Walsh played 90 minutes for Yeovil away at Bristol Rovers, so I don’t think that’s true actually.
