Players coming through (6 Viewers)

[larry_david]

All the hype this week and Obiwku is now injured

 

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[Sky Blue Goblin]

Ex- Coventry youth product on the bench for North end today. Might be one we regret letting go.

 

[Winny the Bish]

Ex- Coventry youth product on the bench for North end today. Might be one we regret letting go.

Looks like he joined them at 16. Not clear if he was released or poached.

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

Looks like he joined them at 16. Not clear if he was released or poached.

Released by us.

 

[Winny the Bish]

Released by us.

Ah interesting. Glad to see him doing well then.

 

[MalcSB]

Problem now with players coming through is bigger teams just picking any talent off. As mentioned above we've lost a couple this season alone.

Almost need someone to go under radar then just develop really late and then luck with pathway being open.

Sad thing is with bigger clubs picking off all talent, fair amount of them will just fizzle out as they will solely play 23s football, then drift into non league when released as they have been lost in the giant fish bowl of a Man City or Chelsea. Where perhaps being at a coventry or small club and staying put, then higher chance of first team football or loan to play proper competitive games. But its hard I get it, when clubs and agents start promising the world.....

The PL screws everybody else in any way possible and the footballing authorities simply allow it.

 

[rob9872]

We simply can't afford to sustain a Cat1 academy and all the big boys know about the top players. The max apprenticeship they can be paid is £200 so that's not the attraction, but facilities, recovery, staff, sponsorships etc are miles apart. One of my mates from poker going back years has his kid with our academy currently, they're not City fans, in fact not fans of anyone really, nearly lost him to Villa last summer, if he's not knocking on the door in preseason, we'll most likely lose him somewhere this summer and nothing we can do about it.