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Dameerto wrote:I'll always hope for the best for our kids, whether it boggles people's minds or not.

Nigels Tackle wrote:

Lee_R wrote:Eh..theyre calling it off?

bizarre

mr_nool wrote:

Dameerto wrote:I'll always hope for the best for our kids, whether it boggles people's minds or not.

Good for you. I obviously do the same, but without blinkers on,

Dameerto wrote:

mr_nool wrote:

Dameerto wrote:I'll always hope for the best for our kids, whether it boggles people's minds or not.

Good for you. I obviously do the same, but without blinkers on,

We wouldn't want anything obscuring that 20/20 hindsight would we?

mr_nool wrote:For once there's none involved.
I don't pretend to have very good knowledge of our youth setups and don't watch much EDS games. But being a Swede, I obviously paid closer attention to Guidetti than to the other EDS players. And living in Holland, I could follow is loan tenure at Feyenoord pretty closely.
Amd to me it was glaringly obviously that he was toos low and sluggish from day one, which I'm sure I've brought up on here before,

mr_nool wrote:

Dameerto wrote:

mr_nool wrote:I agree Slim. GUidetti was never good enough, though. I never did understand why he got such a rep on here.

You don't understand why people would want a home grown player to succeed rather than being pessimistic and slagging him off every time he had the ball? Strange.

That's not what I said at all. What I thought as weird was that so many on here thought Guidetti was the next big thing without having watched him play.
Yes, he scored a lot for Feyenoord, but he wasn't very dominant, and a lot of those goals were penalties. And the Dutch league is NOT a good test. ALvaro Alves anyone? He also did OK for a few games in the Swedish league, but give me a fucking break, That's like league one if not worse.
And he has't actully done that well in the EDS.

I would love forus to brring through some quality kids. I just never thought Johm would be one of them. ANd I think that people might have had too high hopes of him making it, because he was here too early. I seriously doubt that he would be talked about at all if he was a few years younger and had to compete with the talent that we now have, He simply isn't that good.

blues2win wrote:How many youngsters let go over the years have come back to bite us? Genuine question. Sturridge comes to mind but not many others. We are the best side in the country and a growing european force so the standard required for any home grown talent to make it here is incredibly high. Hopefully all the investment put in to Patrick Vieira's part of the Club will bear fruit sooner rather than later.

Slim wrote:

blues2win wrote:How many youngsters let go over the years have come back to bite us? Genuine question. Sturridge comes to mind but not many others. We are the best side in the country and a growing european force so the standard required for any home grown talent to make it here is incredibly high. Hopefully all the investment put in to Patrick Vieira's part of the Club will bear fruit sooner rather than later.

Sturridge wasn't a choice, Chelsea were after him from the age of 15 and when he was made to earn his 1st team spot, well what more encouragement do you need to jump ship? Worked out well for him there didn't it?

sheblue wrote:This is a load of bollocks, a little bit of rain for fook sake.

Dameerto wrote:I hope they play the second half - I want to see some more of Ian Nacho.