Liverpool, Woolwich, United and even Chelsea have been giving their academy players a lot of game time, yet Poch and Jose both refused to give these kids minutes. I'm not calling for constant starting appearances, but they should definitely be playing cup games. Sako, Martinelli, Greenwood, Abraham, Mount, etc. are getting essential minutes and that's not mentioning Klopp's sheer insistence on fielding an entire team of kids several times in cup competitions, with Neco Williams, Van de Berg, Harvey Elliot, Curtis Jones, Liam Millar, Yasser Larouci, Joe Hardy, Leighton Clarkson, and Adam Lewis , who have all gotten senior team debuts this season, are getting valuable experience against Woolwich, Aston Villa, and Shrewsbury Town. All that and the fact that the academy favorite Paul Glatzel will definitely get minutes after returning from injury.
I know that maybe its an overreaction, and I'm certainly not asking for us to be fielding squads of U18 players, but I'm looking at a club refusing to use our only available DM (Skipp) and backup no.9 (Parrott) in games where they could have at least gotten minutes, and loaning out KWP while keeping Aurier. Outside of Winks and hopefully Tanganga, I don't know of anyone in recent memory that we actually brought from the academy to the first team regularly after the days of Bentaleb, Mason, and Kane. I'll be honest its a bit frustrating to watch. Just my two cents regarding the matter. I hate seeing us spend 10-20m on kids when we already have them and could either give them the much needed experience or loan them out so that it benefits us later. I don't really see a plan here.