BoysInBlue
Player Valuation: £50m
I agree with this. Big loss and lots of change won't be good.
Sheedy won the U18s league last season, not Stubbs or Irvine. Irvine has not done any coaching in years - his job as Academy Manager was basically to set up the coaching syllabuses so that we got A' Grade Academy status. There was an article in the Evertonian about 18 months ago about it. Even then he was mentioning he wasn't doing coaching and that it was all down to Sheedy & Dunc. Dunc was such a huge success that he got fast tracked to the first team set up, in the same way Kendall fast tracked Harvey to the first team coaching set up in 1983. Note that Martinez fast tracked Dunc into the first team set up and not Stubbs.