What's happened to our academy?

[Lanolin]

I played football 7 days a week once the weather was good
Street football , shopping centre car park with lights , school playgrounds anywhere we could

Yes, and there'll be individual kids who play 7 days a week now too but individual anecdotes don't change anything.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

2565 minutes are 34 year old Lewis Dunk
1254 minutes are Jack Hinshelwood

27 minutes are other players.

Awesome, thats a brilliant reminder to not take stats at face value. I guess a truer picture would be capping the age of said graduates or limiting when they last appeared in academy teams. Lol.

 

[Raino85]

This makes pretty grim reading https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn081g8x520o

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I think all of that will be from Armstrong. It's not like we're flogging players to other teams either, as only really Gordon fits into that camp.

Palace 3,175 minutes (2760 of them are Tyriek Mitchel 415 Nathaniel Clyne-who they sold and bought back)
Brighton 3846 (2565 minutes Lewis Dunk 1254 minutes are Jack Hinshelwood)
Fulham 2777 minutes (Sessegnon 1591 minutes - sold and bought back, King 1186 minutes (fair enough)
Wolves 3243 minutes (Mane 1311 minutes (fair enough)

Liverpool have been high on these lists last 5 years basically down to Alexander Arnold & Curtis jones, you take one player out and it gets scewed massively.

Our acadamy is no worse than any of these others mentioned apart from obviously City & Chelsea's