Suppose too much to expect for him to score a hat trick last night! But he definitely needs to play in a more competitive sphere to hone his talents.
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Glad he didn’t amaze the other night. He’s 17. Too much pressure is not a good thing.
Go and watch any under 23s train and then watch the first team train. Difference is huge. And some players just don’t make that big step up.
Too often people see kids play against their own age and think they look amazing. He looks physically strong for his age but against game savvy professionals he will struggle. Or at least 99% of players will in that situation. Lightning pace often the key to that 1%.
That’s football.
Head down keep working hard and opportunities will come his way. Harry Kane type loans definitely the best way for him to get football playing time but not sure that is something Poch will do.
He prefers to be coaching and teaching. Skipp being the most recent example.
Go and watch any under 23s train and then watch the first team train. Difference is huge. And some players just don’t make that big step up.
Too often people see kids play against their own age and think they look amazing. He looks physically strong for his age but against game savvy professionals he will struggle. Or at least 99% of players will in that situation. Lightning pace often the key to that 1%.
That’s football.
Head down keep working hard and opportunities will come his way. Harry Kane type loans definitely the best way for him to get football playing time but not sure that is something Poch will do.
He prefers to be coaching and teaching. Skipp being the most recent example.
I watched Harry Kane make his first debut v Hearts in EL partnering Pav aged about 17 (same as Parrott).
Harry tried hard but really didn't look that good, although he won a penalty but didn't score - and that was after he'd had his first loan at Orient. Spurs ended goalless at home, but since we'd soundly beaten them away, it was a dead rubber match.
I think it was right to give Parrott his debut. But I don't think Parrott is going to be a regular first team back up this season, as you say he needs competitive games playing against men to develop his talents.
Big problem potentially is to get over Poch's phobia of sending top youngsters on loans
Not going to hang the kid out on his debut in this mess we are in.
If Kane and Eriksen and Dele are all "suffering from the poor players around them" and Pochs hands are tied by having "no net spend" and the squad is "stale", why should anyone expect a kid to look good?
If Kane and Eriksen and Dele are all "suffering from the poor players around them" and Pochs hands are tied by having "no net spend" and the squad is "stale", why should anyone expect a kid to look good?
Just bagged a hat trick against Red Star with the U19s
Apparently he added a 4th too
Gotta get this kid on the field before Levy sells him
Oh, we should do right by this kid and sell him before he turns into another Marcus Edwards or Reo Griffins
Seems like a natural goalscorer for sure!
But what about his reactions
? He dint even smile a bit after scoring hat-trick nor after 4th goal. Is he doing just forced labor for U19s ?
But what about his reactions
? He dint even smile a bit after scoring hat-trick nor after 4th goal. Is he doing just forced labor for U19s ? 
Hope he gets some minutes soon.
It does seem that we're taking too long to integrate youngsters into the senior team, but then again, it might also be a lack of quality.
The boy is just 17. The thing with using youngsters is that they have to deserve to play ahead of seniors. You can’t just give them minutes because they have talent. Parrott trains with the first team every day and he has to show he is better than the others if he wants to play.
We need to be patient, expecting a 17 year old to show more than Kane, Son and Lucas is silly. Scoring 4 goals in an U19 game is nothing, if we put one of those three seniors in there they would do that too.
I wasn't referring to Parrott in particular, I'm obviously not expecting him to get too much game time at this stage. I was referring to others that were once promising like him, played a few games for the first team, went on a couple of loans and nothing came out of that. Of course, I hope the same doesn't happen to Parrott, but we don't have a very good record with our academy products.
Chill, mate.
As Johnny said, this is not only about Parrott.
Generally speaking, Poch has been absolutely woeful (contrary to popular belief) in bringing through academy players and giving youngsters a chance. Across 5 seasons he have brought through one player - Harry Winks.
But just as Johnny pointed out- we don't know if it is the quality of our academy players or managers inability to help players take the step.
Problem for all top managers is how? Do you drop Kane or Son? and if you do what about Lamela and Moura do they not get playing time ... when you have 200m of proven players for those positions already it's very hard to ignore them for an unproven 17 year old
FA Cup games, with luck a run out at Bayern Munich, and some very limited EPL substitute minutes is probably all he can realistically hope top get.