Got to admit with the senior team so bad we do have a really rosy next 10-15 years coming through.
Got to admit with the senior team so bad we do have a really rosy next 10-15 years coming through.
Great goal.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Fantastic skill from DCL on the sideline
mike91efc
Player Valuation: £750k
Thanks
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Interesting article on football academies.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/06/football-biggest-issue-boys-rejected-academies
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/06/football-biggest-issue-boys-rejected-academies
Lewis Gibson is not in the England U17s starting 11 v Chile at the World Cup.
Anderson Eyoma Guehi Latibeaudiere (c) Panzo McEachran Oakley-Boothe Foden Sancho Hudson-Odoi Brewster.
A very talented front four for England, but my own interest has now nosedived, its on Eurosport's if anybody is interested.
Anderson Eyoma Guehi Latibeaudiere (c) Panzo McEachran Oakley-Boothe Foden Sancho Hudson-Odoi Brewster.
A very talented front four for England, but my own interest has now nosedived, its on Eurosport's if anybody is interested.
..England winning 1-0.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...-scenes-everton-academy-produced-13727058.amp
Behind the scenes at Everton Academy which has produced first team footballers for 1,000 games
Every Everton first team squad has had a home grown talent for 22 years!
BY PHIL KIRKBRIDE
05:00, 7 OCT 2017UPDATED15:07, 6 OCT 2017
On September 17 at Old Trafford, the Blues reached a landmark which backs up all of that when, for the 1,000th consecutive first-team game, the squad had at least one Academy graduate in it.
The challenge for Joel Waldron, who oversees the entire Academy operation, and for figureheads such as David Unsworth - who kicked off that remarkable run in a European Cup Winners Cup tie against Feyenoord in 1995 - is to maintain the production line of talent for the first-team boss.
Despite the club's remarkable success, they both concede that keeping it going will be far from easy.
“I wouldn't want to put one area above another but stripping it back, we need to recruit well and we need to coach well,” Waldron explains.
“The support networks are all massively important – education and welfare, sports science and medicine – we give enough time to them and as a management team we meet formally on a monthly basis but are constantly in and out of each others' rooms.
“The Head of Performance, Richard Battle, works closely with me and will take some areas but for me, my focus at the moment, would be recruitment and coaching.
Academy Manager Joel Waldron
“Recruitment, because we've done well locally down the years and that's our bread and butter, will never change and we need to continue doing well in what is a very competitive area.
“That goes beyond the city boundries, it's not just ourselves, Liverpool and Tranmere in Merseyside, it's City and United 30 and 40 minutes down the road and the other clubs in the north west as well, so it is important that we maintain a focus on local recruitment and never take our eye off that.
“And now, as the boys get older, we do get an opportunity to bring the players in so we want to do that right, watch them sufficiently, have good scouting networks in place, good reporting systems, so recruitment is a big one.
“And then coaching is a huge one.
“We've put Sean Lundon in as Head of Academy Coaching, I'm delighted with that. Sean has been here a long time and worked with most of the players that have gone through recently to our first-team and the structure now is a much clearer one.
"Our board gives me a budget to recruit players with the potential to play in our first-team."
“We also have Dave Unsworth as Director of Coaching, whose primary duties, day-to-day, will be under-23s manager but he will be down every afternoon on the grass working with the boys or the coaches.
“We have strong coaching leadership, they're on top of what's being delivered.
“We're now at a point where we're happy with what we've got, happy with the team of coaches we've got, but we want to continue developing the programme so we'll spend more and more time inside, looking at our curriculum, looking at what it takes to be an Everton player, and making sure the two match up.
“We constantly benchmark against other clubs, go abroad, and are always looking to get that little edge.”
Unsworth is in agreement and says that Everton's recruitment has needed – and been given the backing – to adapt.
It now goes beyond Academy scouting in the traditional sense.
"We've recruited for our under-23s really well."
“Times change and you change and adapt to your environment and what we've done in the last couple of years is bring players in, certainly in our group, who are at a level with one eye on the first-team but who have also made our group stronger and the players around them better,” he said.
“So that has been a big change for us and I think we've done that really well, we've recruited for our under-23s really well.
“We've had quality to every age group and have been afforded the opportunity to bring in quality players at our age group as well so that's really important.
“The opportunity that has been afforded to me by our board, to give me a budget so I can go out and recruit with the potential to play in our first-team.
“We've been able to scour the world and recruit the players we feel there is a position for, if we hadn't produced one ourselves.”
“Recruitment is big, we get that,” adds.
Everton FC v Norwich in Premier League match at Goodison Park Liverpool. Kieran Dowell gets a great reception from Caretaker Manager David Unsworth as he is substituted.
“We start young, we invest hugely in this area, this area will always produce players.
“We look a little bit further afield as well, not all of our players are from Merseyside, we extend across to bits of West Yorkshire now, as far down as Stoke, Wales and up north to parts of Lancashire, so the base of our group has come anywhere from in that map.
“So recruitment is a big one for us and where we have been successful is that we have gone in and get the players, we've developed them well and we have a great set of coaching staff helping them along the way.”
And plenty of these coaches have first-hand experience of trying to make it as players at Everton.
“Our coaching staff is made up coaches who have played for Everton or come through the Everton Academy.
Both Waldron and Unsworth believe it is one of the reasons that sets the Blues apart.
“Our coaching staff is made up coaches who have played for Everton or come through the Everton Academy, which is important but it's not the be all and end all,” Waldron continued.
Everton coach Francis Jeffers
“We have some coaches who might have had a different journey but, collectively, we feel we've got a really strong set of coaches who, between them, deliver a programme that guides players to getting through as well as the support systems around that.
“What we have here at Everton is the pathway and that is fundamental and you can have as good a player as you want, if they are not getting the chance then we won't be deemed to have been as successful, and this club has demonstrated by the 1,000 game record that there is a culture of you getting a chance at Everton.
“That in turn, helps recruitment, so it's one big cycle that keeps ticking over.”
“There is a great environment, I think it is a terrific environment that is dedicated to just football,” said Unsworth. “I've been at, and know about, other clubs, and that is not always the case.
“The former players have been through the journey."
“Here we concentrate about what goes on on the grass and we've got great people, top coaches and it is crucial when you throw former players into the mix.
“The former players – I think there's 12 – who have been through the journey, played in our first-team, been a scholar, been a young pro, maybe not made it but know the demands of this club and when you throw that into the mix, that is crucial.
“But these former players are not just here to tell their story there here because they are good coaches.”
Waldron, son of stalwart club scout Martin, admits that though “bright” as a young footballer he was “challenged” in other areas.
Jack aged 16, when he was called up for the England age group squad
Thrown regularly into trials matches to make up the numbers, he recalls playing against an emerging Jack Rodwell, but quickly learnt his calling was on the sidelines.
Unsworth did make the grade, of course, and it's clear that though their footballing careers were never destined to follow the same path, their thinking is now joined up.
“As you will see, the age of a debutant is going up, so it's not as easy to get an opportunity across the board,” Waldron said.
“The standard of the league seems to go up each year, the levels of investment you see on deadline day seems to go up each year, so logically you could draw a conclusion from that, that it's tougher to get in.
"We've demonstrated over time that you'll get a chance at Everton."
“But, selfishly, if you look at Everton we don't feel uncomfortable with that because what we've demonstrated over time, is that you'll get a chance at Everton.
“The levels go up, and that's something we need to take into account and really push our boys for excellence because if they are not quite at it they'll fall short, but the pathway is there and is established and I believe it will always be the case.”
“It's tough, it's tough, and in this day and age it's going to be tougher,” Unsworth concludes.
“But still, it's a great challenge, the bar has certainly been raised – not just from our success over the last couple of years with our under-23 group, but the amount of players available to the manager and the finances available to the manager, it's going to be tougher.
“But at the same time it's a great challenge for me, a great challenge for all our coaches throughout our Academy to get up to that level, get up to that bar and keep competing with other clubs for the recruitment of the best young players.”
Here's to the next 1,000 games.
Behind the scenes at Everton Academy which has produced first team footballers for 1,000 games
Every Everton first team squad has had a home grown talent for 22 years!
BY PHIL KIRKBRIDE
05:00, 7 OCT 2017UPDATED15:07, 6 OCT 2017
On September 17 at Old Trafford, the Blues reached a landmark which backs up all of that when, for the 1,000th consecutive first-team game, the squad had at least one Academy graduate in it.
The challenge for Joel Waldron, who oversees the entire Academy operation, and for figureheads such as David Unsworth - who kicked off that remarkable run in a European Cup Winners Cup tie against Feyenoord in 1995 - is to maintain the production line of talent for the first-team boss.
Despite the club's remarkable success, they both concede that keeping it going will be far from easy.
“I wouldn't want to put one area above another but stripping it back, we need to recruit well and we need to coach well,” Waldron explains.
“The support networks are all massively important – education and welfare, sports science and medicine – we give enough time to them and as a management team we meet formally on a monthly basis but are constantly in and out of each others' rooms.
“The Head of Performance, Richard Battle, works closely with me and will take some areas but for me, my focus at the moment, would be recruitment and coaching.
Academy Manager Joel Waldron
“Recruitment, because we've done well locally down the years and that's our bread and butter, will never change and we need to continue doing well in what is a very competitive area.
“That goes beyond the city boundries, it's not just ourselves, Liverpool and Tranmere in Merseyside, it's City and United 30 and 40 minutes down the road and the other clubs in the north west as well, so it is important that we maintain a focus on local recruitment and never take our eye off that.
“And now, as the boys get older, we do get an opportunity to bring the players in so we want to do that right, watch them sufficiently, have good scouting networks in place, good reporting systems, so recruitment is a big one.
“And then coaching is a huge one.
“We've put Sean Lundon in as Head of Academy Coaching, I'm delighted with that. Sean has been here a long time and worked with most of the players that have gone through recently to our first-team and the structure now is a much clearer one.
"Our board gives me a budget to recruit players with the potential to play in our first-team."
“We also have Dave Unsworth as Director of Coaching, whose primary duties, day-to-day, will be under-23s manager but he will be down every afternoon on the grass working with the boys or the coaches.
“We have strong coaching leadership, they're on top of what's being delivered.
“We're now at a point where we're happy with what we've got, happy with the team of coaches we've got, but we want to continue developing the programme so we'll spend more and more time inside, looking at our curriculum, looking at what it takes to be an Everton player, and making sure the two match up.
“We constantly benchmark against other clubs, go abroad, and are always looking to get that little edge.”
Unsworth is in agreement and says that Everton's recruitment has needed – and been given the backing – to adapt.
It now goes beyond Academy scouting in the traditional sense.
"We've recruited for our under-23s really well."
“Times change and you change and adapt to your environment and what we've done in the last couple of years is bring players in, certainly in our group, who are at a level with one eye on the first-team but who have also made our group stronger and the players around them better,” he said.
“So that has been a big change for us and I think we've done that really well, we've recruited for our under-23s really well.
“We've had quality to every age group and have been afforded the opportunity to bring in quality players at our age group as well so that's really important.
“The opportunity that has been afforded to me by our board, to give me a budget so I can go out and recruit with the potential to play in our first-team.
“We've been able to scour the world and recruit the players we feel there is a position for, if we hadn't produced one ourselves.”
“Recruitment is big, we get that,” adds.
Everton FC v Norwich in Premier League match at Goodison Park Liverpool. Kieran Dowell gets a great reception from Caretaker Manager David Unsworth as he is substituted.
“We start young, we invest hugely in this area, this area will always produce players.
“We look a little bit further afield as well, not all of our players are from Merseyside, we extend across to bits of West Yorkshire now, as far down as Stoke, Wales and up north to parts of Lancashire, so the base of our group has come anywhere from in that map.
“So recruitment is a big one for us and where we have been successful is that we have gone in and get the players, we've developed them well and we have a great set of coaching staff helping them along the way.”
And plenty of these coaches have first-hand experience of trying to make it as players at Everton.
“Our coaching staff is made up coaches who have played for Everton or come through the Everton Academy.
Both Waldron and Unsworth believe it is one of the reasons that sets the Blues apart.
“Our coaching staff is made up coaches who have played for Everton or come through the Everton Academy, which is important but it's not the be all and end all,” Waldron continued.
Everton coach Francis Jeffers
“We have some coaches who might have had a different journey but, collectively, we feel we've got a really strong set of coaches who, between them, deliver a programme that guides players to getting through as well as the support systems around that.
“What we have here at Everton is the pathway and that is fundamental and you can have as good a player as you want, if they are not getting the chance then we won't be deemed to have been as successful, and this club has demonstrated by the 1,000 game record that there is a culture of you getting a chance at Everton.
“That in turn, helps recruitment, so it's one big cycle that keeps ticking over.”
“There is a great environment, I think it is a terrific environment that is dedicated to just football,” said Unsworth. “I've been at, and know about, other clubs, and that is not always the case.
“The former players have been through the journey."
“Here we concentrate about what goes on on the grass and we've got great people, top coaches and it is crucial when you throw former players into the mix.
“The former players – I think there's 12 – who have been through the journey, played in our first-team, been a scholar, been a young pro, maybe not made it but know the demands of this club and when you throw that into the mix, that is crucial.
“But these former players are not just here to tell their story there here because they are good coaches.”
Waldron, son of stalwart club scout Martin, admits that though “bright” as a young footballer he was “challenged” in other areas.
Jack aged 16, when he was called up for the England age group squad
Thrown regularly into trials matches to make up the numbers, he recalls playing against an emerging Jack Rodwell, but quickly learnt his calling was on the sidelines.
Unsworth did make the grade, of course, and it's clear that though their footballing careers were never destined to follow the same path, their thinking is now joined up.
“As you will see, the age of a debutant is going up, so it's not as easy to get an opportunity across the board,” Waldron said.
“The standard of the league seems to go up each year, the levels of investment you see on deadline day seems to go up each year, so logically you could draw a conclusion from that, that it's tougher to get in.
"We've demonstrated over time that you'll get a chance at Everton."
“But, selfishly, if you look at Everton we don't feel uncomfortable with that because what we've demonstrated over time, is that you'll get a chance at Everton.
“The levels go up, and that's something we need to take into account and really push our boys for excellence because if they are not quite at it they'll fall short, but the pathway is there and is established and I believe it will always be the case.”
“It's tough, it's tough, and in this day and age it's going to be tougher,” Unsworth concludes.
“But still, it's a great challenge, the bar has certainly been raised – not just from our success over the last couple of years with our under-23 group, but the amount of players available to the manager and the finances available to the manager, it's going to be tougher.
“But at the same time it's a great challenge for me, a great challenge for all our coaches throughout our Academy to get up to that level, get up to that bar and keep competing with other clubs for the recruitment of the best young players.”
Here's to the next 1,000 games.
4-0 in the end , Gibson didn't get on , they've got four decent CBs in the squad , but he bound to get his chance sometime as they try different combinations. I know Gibson played in a friendly in India against New Zealand so he must be in the mix.
A very good win for England, they have a nice problem of trying to fit five very talented attackers into four positions . Gomez from ManU was the one left out today but came on , took the captains arm band and scored a stunning free kick .
..yep, watched 20mins of the first half before I had to go out. Good movement, lad on the left side a box of tricks (from what my son says he’s with a German side).
That's Sancho that moved from City; very talented player and squad.
...that’s the fella.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Surprised us, or some other English clubs weren't in for this lad. Seems a real talent
We probs were but they're a good club to go to for chances and he wasn't cheap.
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