A golden generation

[Brennan]

Slightly off-topic but it's strange that Liverpool have sacked their Academy heads today:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/21/liverpool-sack-frank-mcparland-academy

Until recently the last player to come out of their Academy was Gerrard and now they have Stirling, Kelly, Wisdom, Flanagan, Morgan, Coady, Suso and Ibe.

Average without pace, average, average, utter turd, who ?, who ?, probably be good, who ?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The funniest thing, well, depending upon your view I guess, is that when they were in a pickle financially, they asked Spurs to renegotiate the sell on clause on Bale. Remember, Bale was not fully cooked, but they had a 25% clause on profit Spurs made. It was waived, with Spurs paying them £1m plus a 3rd choice goalie as compensation!

Ouch. That's gotta hurt. Best part of £20 million lost there.

 

[Eggs]

Slightly off-topic but it's strange that Liverpool have sacked their Academy heads today:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/21/liverpool-sack-frank-mcparland-academy

Until recently the last player to come out of their Academy was Gerrard and now they have Stirling, Kelly, Wisdom, Flanagan, Morgan, Coady, Suso and Ibe.

..as you say, gerrard is the last player to come out of their academy.

 

[billycopper]

Average without pace, average, average, utter turd, who ?, who ?, probably be good, who ?

Kelly and Wisdom have looked quite good from what I've seen of them. Stirling is still very young. Suso seems quite tidy. And I think that the others are quite highly-rated.

I'm sure I read somewhere that Benitez had no interest in the academy and that Dalglish relaunched it. The only players I can see who made their debut under Rafael were Spearing and Kelly. Not a great return for a 6 year spell in charge.

Even now they seem to recruit from abroad through their academy partnership rather than focussing on local talent. Their U21 squad has Turkish, Spanish, German, Czech, Hungarian, Portuguese, American, Swedish, Bulgarian, Bosnian and Congolese.

Their youth also train in Kirkby rather than at Melwood. Surely that should leave the way clear for us to snap up the best talent on Merseyside.

 

[Neiler]

Ive heard good things about Ibe.

 

[mightymoyes]

Ive heard good things about Ibe.

yeh at the minute a lot of them think hes the best shout to make as a first team regular. the others mentioned would be very doubtful.

 

[thebluefox]

John Lundstram looks really promising in the near future..would love to see him get a go.

I can see Duffy, Kennedy and Leidson being first team/squad players in the future

none of the above will make it at everton fc

 

[mightymoyes]

none of the above will make it at everton fc

ridiculous to write off a 16 yr old already playing way above his age group, no?