How good is our scouting system?

[brownie4583]

What do you think to our scouting system?
The young lad Bamford on loan at MK Dons from Chelsea is scoring goals for fun at the moment and i was wondering why can we not identify players like this?
There must surely be quite a few good young players available for loan from premiership clubs such as Arsenal,Chelsea,Spurs,Liverpool etc who could come in and improve the squad.
Assombalonga was signed by Posh from League 2 Southend,and watching League 2 games on TV there are some good strikers who could do a job for us but we don't seem to be very successful in this area to my mind.

 

[mattbianco1]

We've got Connor Coady

 

[MBoreman]

To be fair Bamford has been there 2/3 years and wasn't as prolific the first 2. Miller comes to mind as a good bit of recent scouting from League 2. Posh signed Assombalonga from Watford I think. I know what you mean but so many clubs will be looking at players in England and signing from L2 or signing an inexperienced youngster is always a risk. We'd be better off looking further a field and attempting to keep picking up Premier League rejects like Baxter (but for free like Oldham got him).

 

[highpeakblade]

When the money went down the pan I think a great deal of our scouting system and networking went with it. I think the emphasis is very much on producing our own talent as well as poaching academy players out of favor in the top flight for our development set up.

Hopefully this will change and we will be out the again, I know we have had a look up in Scotland as well as League One & Two of late but nothing overly heavy again due to financial limitations.