Our wealth of young academy talent

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the point is our academy is actually churning out premier league caliber footballers now hence the top level as in top league in the country you negative cunts

I don't remember ever having so many academy products or players who we've developed from a young age all coming thru looking like they can make it at Tottenham or at least elsewhere in the top league in the country and long may it continue
 
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The thing with academy players is that it takes years to actually come to fruition. Our academy structure was completely overhauled in 2005. The players in that year's U8 team are just about coming into the oldest age groups. So in the next 3/4 years or so we can fully judge whether it has been successful or not. When you figure that players such as Townsend, Caulker, Mason, Kane etc have been brought through into the first team in the last few seasons, I think it's a massive improvement on what we had produced pre-2005.

it's massively important that we put resources into developing our own players, as these are the ones that have the club in their hearts and give that extra 5% in big matches. They are the ones that have been brought up with the values of the club, the ones that give more than just performances on the pitch.

The future looks good, I just hope we continue to see some more players get first team opportunities.
 
Mad Yid

Mad Yid

Townsend, Bentaleb, Kane, Rose all part of the first team squad and the likes of Livermore and Caulker pulling in big fees it is awesome to see our academy finally bearing top level fruit in abundance all over the pitch. For years it seemed we mainly churned out lower league dross King aside but the last season or 2 our academy has really started to show us the way forward. There's not much more fulfilling in football than watching your club develop top level players so long may it continue. Now we just need to find the next Messi before anyone else does and tell him he's to wooden and maybe footie aint for him lol.........

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I'm amazed if people can't see the positive direction our Academy/Development squad is taking. The likes pf Livermore and Caulker are established PL-footballers that got us good fees that can make us invest more in future hopefuls such as Yahaya for instance. On top of that we have sold loads of players to different Levels of League football like Obika, Dawkins and Luongo, even those sales are success stories for the Academy. In our current squad we have (Rose), Bentaleb, Townsend, Mason, Carroll, Vejlkovic, Kane and that is a massive improvement on what we used to have. Look a few years ahead and the group will either be established Spurs players or they have earned us more cash to reinvest in future talent.

In the Academy these days there are many hopefuls. Yahaya has been mentioned, but needs to bed in in the country and learn the Language (he also needs to actually play..:) ), but Walker-Peters, Harrison, Winks, Carter-Vickers, Georgiou, Lameiras, Ogilvie, Ceballos, Oduwa, Onomah, Lesniak, Akindayini etc there might be someone that can keep their Development going.

The direction is positive, it might get even better with time. But if you want to slag off our development you have have chosen the worst timing in 30 years to do it..
 
Even if our players aren't making it through to our first team, they are ending up at teams higher up the leagues now. Ten years ago you had the likes of Mark Gower ending up at Southend, now we have the likes of Jake Livermore ending up playing in an FA cup final for Hull. It's not going to make the world of football stop and take note, but it's progress. If they keep up that progress one of our youngsters could turn out to be the next Bale or Modric in ten years time.
 
JESUS CHRIST!, we've gotten better at developing young footballers ffs is that the right wording or should we needlessly argue over that too like a pack of clueless cunts lol

Hopefully we can help afew become world class like we did Bale before he facked off to the sun shine
 
Do ya reckon it's a product of the training facilities being amongst the best in the world. I guess that couldn't do nothing but help attract a better caliber of player to the club. I just love the whole Ajax or Barca way of developing more players than you buy.
 
Well if the point of the Academy is that we have no
money to spend on real quality (lowest net spenders in
league over last 5years) and fill the team with the likes
of Rose, Benty , Kane etc. Then someone better switch the lights off.
A noble cause but as most clubs above us can buy endless
constant high quality players and we produce midtable plodders at best , then sadly this is ineffective
at the highest level .
If this is the way to Levy's 'Next Level ' then many would
consider this a Trojan Horse strategy.
 
What we are getting from the development squad us getting better all the time. We have pull because were a London team with outstanding facilities and in the best league with players often going on to even bigger clubs.
As we've not had he facilities all that long I reckon we are only starting to see the impact from that and players younger will benefit for even longer so I am expecting improvement for a few years yet.
Also we don't know how good the players recently through will get. They're young and need more time. Kane for instance could end up at WBA, at Spurs as third choice or as first choice. Time will tell.
 
An interesting stat: only 1 in 17 Spurs academy players go on to establish themselves in the premier league let alone the Spurs team, should increase though if we keep hold of Poch and he does what he done at Espanyol although I can't see Levy giving Poch free reign over selection.
 
I don't know if it's still true but when he was sold Caulker was one of our top ten biggest sales ever. Livermore was not far behind Caulker's price either. Impressive. Even if they weren't players who had a role here that's still 16-18m in the coffers to buy other players. Shows the value of having a quality academy without even addressing all the graduates in and around the first team.
 
Mad Yid Mad Yid Top level fruit, really? I wouldn't call any of them barring Rose on current form a starter of that lot.
It sure is nice seeing the academy pay dividence, but there's still quite some ways (and luck) to go before we are making truly top level players.
 
Basically the point is people say the Barcelona academy is great because of the likes of Puyol, Xavi and etc. there was a big fuss about the fact they played a game with nothing but players from their academy. However if Rose and Bentaleb are not classed as academy graduates then neither should Puyol, Pedro and Busquets.

The ajax academy is renowned as one of the best but these players shouldn't be classed as academy players if the two above aren't:
Eriksen (joined when he was 16)
Vertonghen (signed at 16)
Boilesen (signed at 17)
Anderson (signed at 18)

Bentaleb was 16 when he was having a trial with us.
 
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