Trouble at the Academy?

[Jayesh87]

Mourinho as youth team coach?

[Rich]

Mourinho as youth team coach?

It would be like Shankly and Beattie in the Huddersfield Town days

[JPK]

Said weeks ago the 18's coach had to go. He was not getting the most out of some class players.

[Neil Young]

It sounds like a reality programme on E4.

[-V-]

Well we dont seem to have developed any local talent good enough for the big time for a while now

[peekay]

I don't think that this is mainly about the scouts. The complaints don't seem to be about the players but rather the coaching they're receiving. Perhaps they are still in the 'Heighway' mode of coaching, focusing on building a team, rather than the new way which is supposed to be about developing the individual. If they're stuck in their ways and refusing to do as Hamberg says then we'll need to change them. The report on the TLW says that at the games the players are getting two different sets of instructions from the staff, one set from the coach and another from Hamberg. It's no wonder that results have tailed off if that is indeed the case.

I agree. I remember reading an interview by Hamberg couple of months ago which pretty much said the same thing. He said he was not worried about building good youth teams, he wanted to develop good individual players who have the technical ability and the build to play in the first eleven.

[Tee]

I though Rafa restructured the whole Academy?? Is it any coincidence this slide is occurring after Steve Heighway left?

[Skillz]

I though Rafa restructured the whole Academy?? Is it any coincidence this slide is occurring after Steve Heighway left?

Wouldn't worry. Rafa will sort it.

[Angry Dan]

Is it any coincidence this slide is occurring after Steve Heighway left?

I doubt when you consider what the youth teams have produced in the last 6-7 years.

[Neil Young]

I assume there's no suggestion that the Academy is suffering financial cuts, hmm?