i really do feel that we should have kept some players that he sold.... in particular 2 home-grown players in Warnock and Guthrie......
both players could have been valuable players for us in my opinion and when you look at us spending 7m on dossena then i think we all realise that maybe we sold warnock a bit quickly....
on the other hand, the 2 players i mentioned above wanted to play every week so maybe it is understandable that they were allowed to leave the club...
i would like to see us implement a system similar to what barca are looking to do with some of their young players...for example crosas who they sold to celtic recently. We sold guthrie to newcastle for approx 3.5m in the summer. I think it would have been a great idea to insert a buy-back option into the deal whereby we have the option to buy the player back within 3 seasons for, say 5m. That way, newcastle would get a profit on a player that they took a punt on, liverpool would get to analyse the player over a period of time and see if he can cut it in the premier league and the player would get to play week-in week-out with the added benifet of knowing that he could still possibly make it at liverpool....
At the end of the day, players develop at different rates so just because a player doesnt make the grade at liverpool by the time he is 20 or 21, it doesnt mean that he wouldn't be a good player to have in 2 or 3 seasons time.... warnock is the obvious example here but to be perfectly honest, i could see guthrie being a similar player.... who knows, maybe in 2 or 3 seasons we will all be of the opinion that guthrie would be a better player to have in the squad over lucas (some would probably say that already!)
what i can see happening would be players like pacheco and particularly nemeth, leaving because they can't get into our team and turning out to be superstars..... then in a couple of years time when keane is 32 and no longer a first teamer, we could be crying out for someone like nemeth.......a clause like this would solve the problem of whether to give young players more time at the club to prove himself..... we could just let them prove themselves in other first teams instead.....
one player that could have used this system would have been partridge in my opinion.... he held on and on thinking that he would be good enough to make the first team eventually before falling off the radar.... about 3 seasons before he was eventually released by LFC, he went to coventry for a season and was their best player that year.... had he went to someone like blackburn the next year, then he could still be a prem player now for all we know....
for other teams, one player that seems to have developed a bit later than usual is darren fletcher. To be honest, i dont think he would have been a first team player for someone like everton or newcastle 3 years ago but now he looks like he could be scholes natural sucessor - in recent weeks, he has filled in for scholes when he was injured and kept anderson on the bench....
i also think that if united had the option to buy back phil neville over the last year or two, they would have - in my opinion the guy is a cunt but he had been playing well for everton in the middle of the park.....as well as carrick or hargreves in my opinion.....
both players could have been valuable players for us in my opinion and when you look at us spending 7m on dossena then i think we all realise that maybe we sold warnock a bit quickly....
on the other hand, the 2 players i mentioned above wanted to play every week so maybe it is understandable that they were allowed to leave the club...
i would like to see us implement a system similar to what barca are looking to do with some of their young players...for example crosas who they sold to celtic recently. We sold guthrie to newcastle for approx 3.5m in the summer. I think it would have been a great idea to insert a buy-back option into the deal whereby we have the option to buy the player back within 3 seasons for, say 5m. That way, newcastle would get a profit on a player that they took a punt on, liverpool would get to analyse the player over a period of time and see if he can cut it in the premier league and the player would get to play week-in week-out with the added benifet of knowing that he could still possibly make it at liverpool....
At the end of the day, players develop at different rates so just because a player doesnt make the grade at liverpool by the time he is 20 or 21, it doesnt mean that he wouldn't be a good player to have in 2 or 3 seasons time.... warnock is the obvious example here but to be perfectly honest, i could see guthrie being a similar player.... who knows, maybe in 2 or 3 seasons we will all be of the opinion that guthrie would be a better player to have in the squad over lucas (some would probably say that already!)
what i can see happening would be players like pacheco and particularly nemeth, leaving because they can't get into our team and turning out to be superstars..... then in a couple of years time when keane is 32 and no longer a first teamer, we could be crying out for someone like nemeth.......a clause like this would solve the problem of whether to give young players more time at the club to prove himself..... we could just let them prove themselves in other first teams instead.....
one player that could have used this system would have been partridge in my opinion.... he held on and on thinking that he would be good enough to make the first team eventually before falling off the radar.... about 3 seasons before he was eventually released by LFC, he went to coventry for a season and was their best player that year.... had he went to someone like blackburn the next year, then he could still be a prem player now for all we know....
for other teams, one player that seems to have developed a bit later than usual is darren fletcher. To be honest, i dont think he would have been a first team player for someone like everton or newcastle 3 years ago but now he looks like he could be scholes natural sucessor - in recent weeks, he has filled in for scholes when he was injured and kept anderson on the bench....
i also think that if united had the option to buy back phil neville over the last year or two, they would have - in my opinion the guy is a cunt but he had been playing well for everton in the middle of the park.....as well as carrick or hargreves in my opinion.....
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