In the list of the homegrown Championship players at the bottom of the article, they only list Solly and Green for us. What about Wagstaff and Lawrie Wilson?
I personally do not consider Haynes, Green and Wilson in the same manner as Solly and Wagstaff as 'academy products'.
They've been in the academy but the 'product' is a mixture of us plus whatever other professional experience they've had at Dagenham, Ipswich, Stevenage etc.
In the list of the homegrown Championship players at the bottom of the article, they only list Solly and Green for us. What about Wagstaff and Lawrie Wilson?
They weren't playing on Saturday. Solly started and Green came off the bench.
I think the players listed (only Green and Solly for us) are the players that played this weekend. That is the main point behind the story, that Barcas 11 that played in the one game were all home grown players, so that would explain the missing Wilson and Haynes etc.
I see somewhere that the best any english league team could manage this week was Crewe who had 7 academy products on the pitch.
Celtic won the European cup with a team that was from within 5 miles of the ground apart from one bloke from 30 miles away. Imagine how much half English edinburger Rod Stewart would have wept at that.
Barcelona have the same youth policy as Arsenal. Spend Millions buying the best young talent from elsewhere then say they're home grown.
That is what I was getting at in my earlier post. Plus of course Barcelona have the pick of more or less every Catalan who can kick a ball straight, the equivalent would be if Arsenal were the only team in London...
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They've been in the academy but the 'product' is a mixture of us plus whatever other professional experience they've had at Dagenham, Ipswich, Stevenage etc.
Plus we had to buy them.
That is the main point behind the story, that Barcas 11 that played in the one game were all home grown players, so that would explain the missing Wilson and Haynes etc.
I see somewhere that the best any english league team could manage this week was Crewe who had 7 academy products on the pitch.
Barcelona have the same youth policy as Arsenal. Spend Millions buying the best young talent from elsewhere then say they're home grown.