Liverpool since Evans

[carheex]

did evans bring through more reserves/youth players? suppose time will tell.

One thing that does confuse me is the lack of reserves/youth players seeing some first team action. For instance i'd like to see one of the strikers, a winger, centre back and full back be in or on the fringes of the 1st team squad.

off the top of my head that includes the likes of nemeth, hammil, hobbs and insua.

I'm only interested in quality and not where they've come from. Hobbs is a joke of a footballer and shouldn't be anywhere near a club like liverpool.

[rage]

you're not gonna get 'quality' as a fourth choice though. these positions in the squad should be filled by players with potential or long time servants that can still do a job ala Hypia.

[StevieG08]

he will play them when they are ready mate. he hasnt spent all that time effort and money on this youth set up to never give them a chance.

There are a hell of a lot more than 3 of these kids capable of making it into the 1st team mate, trust me, I watch a hell of a lot of reserve/acadamy football.

Nemeth, Linfield, Barnett, Hammill, Parsonage, Leto, Francis, Pacheco, Adjaravic, Insua, Darby, Hobbs, Bouzanis, Ecclestone, Pourie, Plessis and Amoo are all players with more than enough potential and ability to make it not only into the first team, but to the very top of their profession.

Wether they do or not is down to attitude, luck and desire but every kid I have just mentioned has a ridiculous ammount of talent. If you dont believe me, watch them yourself.

You are so so wrong in not giving Rafa credit for this current crop of youth players.

The seasoned internationals at the club cant seem to handle the pressure of playing for us at the moment with all this **** thats going on, yet you think it would be wise to throw some of these kids in, like a lamb to the slaughter. Madness.

When the time is right, Rafa will give these kids a chance because they are good enough. He sees them in training every day so he has a better idea than us as to wether they are ready to handle the pressure yet or not.

Fantastic post, fans who slag Rafa's youth policy off amaze me. If we win this years youth cup we will be the first to win 3 on the bounce for 50 years or some such ****e. It's where it's at.

[JRC]

liverpool, and evans, would have been far more succesful had they benefitted from the rule change to allow 3rd/4th place finishes enter the champions league.

It wasn't a rule change though, was it? Surely it was because our record in Europe improved - the co-efficient factor or whatever - and the number of places went up. The logic for that is that it was we became a stronger league - and whilst noting previous points about it being difficult to directly compare across different eras, I definitely think Roy acheived those positions in a significantly weaker league - there was no-one at the time at the level of Arsenal and Chelsea now, just Utd ahead of the rest. 3rd or 4th then feels like 5th or 6th now.

[carheex]

It wasn't a rule change though, was it? Surely it was because our record in Europe improved - the co-efficient factor or whatever - and the number of places went up. The logic for that is that it was we became a stronger league - and whilst noting previous points about it being difficult to directly compare across different eras, I definitely think Roy acheived those positions in a significantly weaker league - there was no-one at the time at the level of Arsenal and Chelsea now, just Utd ahead of the rest. 3rd or 4th then feels like 5th or 6th now.

No, it was a rule change to allow more teams to enter. Any extra places after the rule change were due to the premier league's performances in europe and not ours as a club. Utd performances had more to do with us qualifying for the CL than houllier!