Paid Members Murtz Posted January 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2019 Tielemans has great potential (and a FM legend), but his Monaco move was a bit of an odd one. He could excel under the right manager.. really don't think that's Puel though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2019 27 minutes ago, Murtz said: He could excel under the right manager.. really don't think that's Puel though! Why do you say that? Both Seri and Mendy excelled under him at Nice and Romeu arguably had his best season while Puel was at Southampton. Mendy is also having his best season at Leicester at the moment too. Puel seems to be able to work well with untapping potential with central midfielders, which I suppose isn't that surprising seeing as he played there for years under Wenger at Monaco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 WHY ARENT SPURS GOING FOR TIELEMENS????* *think we all know why... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 29, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2019 It's definitely not because your paying for a stadium that you can't play in, honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Murtz Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 14 hours ago, PunkStep said: Why do you say that? Both Seri and Mendy excelled under him at Nice and Romeu arguably had his best season while Puel was at Southampton. Mendy is also having his best season at Leicester at the moment too. Puel seems to be able to work well with untapping potential with central midfielders, which I suppose isn't that surprising seeing as he played there for years under Wenger at Monaco. I get that, But it's more to do with how Puel is getting on at Leicester. He isn't really helping the youngsters there, and hasn't really improved anyone at City. His days are numbered.. can't see him getting through this season to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Bifkin Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 17 minutes ago, Murtz said: He isn't really helping the youngsters there In what way? No club in the Premier League has given more league minutes to under 21 players this season than Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 Exactly. Read this for a start, on BBC yesterday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47016796 Puel is giving youth a chance more than any other PL manager this season. Just look at how seamless Maddison has made the transition from Championship to Premier League this season at such a young age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 Chalk up another young Brit abroad. Rabbi Matondo has left Man City for Schalke. Welsh international, 18, gone for about £10m. i hope this little revolution forces through some real change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 City have become particularly bad when it comes to retaining young players recently, haven't they? Sancho, Diaz and now Matondo. Pep is talking up Foden enough to make him feel that staying is the best option, but it might be only a matter of time before the likes of Ian Poveda decide to move on as well. Good for them. I don't care if young British players are moving abroad for opportunities, as long as they are getting opportunities. If the quality of young players coming through improves (and that clearly seems to be the case at the moment), you'd hope that the clubs here will soon realise the benefit in giving them chances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 From Man City's viewpoint I don't know if this one will sting as they robbed this lad from Cardiff, made a shit load of money on him and have a buyback. I know from a trip to the City academy a couple of years ago that this is very much part of the business plan for the academy as well as developing players for themselves, they plan to develop players to sell. Interested to see how Almiron gets on at Newcastle. He's been a massive part of the Atlanta side that has revolutionised MLS and looked a class above that league. Clearly got bags of talent but might need time to adjust to the hectic nature of the Premier League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, tiger_rick said: I know from a trip to the City academy a couple of years ago that this is very much part of the business plan for the academy as well as developing players for themselves, they plan to develop players to sell. And to be honest that should be the business plan for all major clubs, Chelsea have done well out of it so far. Of course they have a separate issue of not making the most of their homegrown players and bringing them through to the first team, but from a business perspective they make good money from selling them on. Although fans moan about some players having to move on and some never getting a crack at the first team, bear in mind they've had development at top facilities for many years- which will ensure they are better prepared and are better players wherever they end up going. The sheer amount of players clubs have in their academies is enough to tell you that those numbers do not go into a senior squad of 25 as well. I bet the trip to City's academy was interesting, their training centre looks out of this world. Easily one of the best investments the owners have made since taking over the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, PunkStep said: And to be honest that should be the business plan for all major clubs, Chelsea have done well out of it so far. Of course they have a separate issue of not making the most of their homegrown players and bringing them through to the first team, but from a business perspective they make good money from selling them on. Although fans moan about some players having to move on and some never getting a crack at the first team, bear in mind they've had development at top facilities for many years- which will ensure they are better prepared and are better players wherever they end up going. The sheer amount of players clubs have in their academies is enough to tell you that those numbers do not go into a senior squad of 25 as well. I bet the trip to City's academy was interesting, their training centre looks out of this world. Easily one of the best investments the owners have made since taking over the club. Yeah, it's a wonderful place. Certain places were off limits and they wouldn't let us take photos except of our kids but the size of it, the amount of pitches of all surfaces including an indoor grass surface plus the mini stadium the women and U23s play at is astounding. To be fair to them too, it's helping regenerate an area of Manchester that was pretty desperate by all accounts before the Commonwealth games. We took a sensational U8 team for our standards. City don't normally play guest teams against their academy but they did ours. On the next pitch was a team from Cumbria. They were two years older, playing two extra players and getting beat double figures. The week before, they'd beaten Arsenal by ten. They also went to the semis of a sort of age group Champions League. Our lads got beat 1-0, 3-0 and 4-2 but they were ace. City had Chris Samba and Heskey's lads in their squad. Loads of lads from Yorkshire and Merseyside and even a brilliant little Spanish lad. Was a great experience. One of our lads from that team is special. I'll let you know if he ever makes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 Not sure if this has been pointed out but leaders of the top 5 leagues are: Liverpool Leeds Luton Lincoln Leyton Orient One L of a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, tiger_rick said: One L of a season. Alright Carbomb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 30, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2019 I know, I know. I'm going to L. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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