I get where you're coming from but no EPL manager, not even Poch, is going to play unproven teenagers over two 30m signings, both signed on his watch. It just isn't going to happen and nor should it.
Neither Onomah or Edwards have done anywhere near enough to justify replacing proven international players even when those players are going through a bad patch ...
Sissoko >>>>>>>>>>> Onomah
Moura >>>>>>>>>>> Edwards
That's just the way it is .... if you seriously believe Onomah or Edwards are better then why are they out on loan to lower divisions and not playing at a top European side? It's very probably because nobody else thinks they are at that level yet either ....
Whilst we are in the business of developing talent that doesn't come in out first eleven, you need to earn that place not just get 'given a go' .....
I think you’ve missed the point slightly. I’m questioning the rational, short termism and different approaches and standards that get applied.
When you have talents that you know have huge potential ( and Poch can see they have huge potential because he’s praised them) should we even be buying players like Sissoko and Aurier - who have both taken 18 months or two years themselves to develop into viable options since buying them.
Of course right now Sissoko looks more viable than Onomah, but what if Onomah had been given the 3000+ odd minutes in the last two years that Sissoko took to look just competent? How much would Onomah have improved (if Sissoko has why wouldn’t Onomah - he was more talented as an 18-20yo than Sissoko was - trust me I watched about 100 of Sissoko’s early games)
Being coached by Poch, playing with Eriksen, Alli, Kane, Dembele, Wanyama, etc etc and played in a CM3 not as a right winger?
Same KWP, there is no way he’d be any less viable (he isn’t now after about 5 starts) than Aurier (another player who I watched most of his early career games). If he’d had those minutes that Aurier has had.
Look at Skipp now. He’s already better with and without the ball than Sissoko and passes it better than Dier.
What if we’d done as we promised Edwards dad/agent and carried on giving him minutes two years ago? Would we have had to spend money on a flibity gibbit like Moura who mostly chases his own tail? Who knows but it took Moura 6 months to even get a look in, and even now he’s squad player.
The Edwards one is debatable, but we’ve got to change the way we think. Buying quality or potential quality is fine. Buying players we already know Can’t exceed the potential of ones we have been coaching for ten years seems daft to me.
Im not saying aren’t as good as ones we’ve got here, I’m saying if we have a kid in whom we see very high potential, we need to seriously weigh that up against a player who might be “quite good“ now but will never be “outstanding” and we know that because they’ve already played 300 plus games or so.
And I am not saying they are guaranteed to fulfil that potential, but buying a player who has already played 300 games and has reached his potential and that hasn’t amounted to anything special certainly isn’t a sustainable or smart policy. You end up with decent but average footballers with depreciated value.
