Blade58
Once a Blade, always a daft ****
Surely to keep churning out decent academy players, there has to be some sort of dependance placed upon the scouting network and quality of the scouts themselves within that network?
Not so anymore it seems!
PS. Interesting comments re Kennedy and Pembo!
Courtesy of Blades Mad:
"Been in an exec box@ Leicester today. Some interesting views ...
Let me start with saying i've never claimed to be itk about anything when it comes to United other my own personal views, so please dont shoot the messenger I'm just passing on what I've heard today.
Due to circumstance through work I found myself today in a Leicester City Directors Box. Now at no point did I try to mingle with the people that were there, in fact due to me and my customer being an hour early we were on our own until an old guy with a Wolves coat sat next to us. We got chatting and I told him I was a Blade and with him clearly being a scout asked him what he thought of our youth set up. His response was something along the lines of "You lot have in my opinion the single best out and out U18 English defender in this country, and its not McGuire" I said Kennedy? The guy was a bit shocked I'd heard of him but seemed really interested. He said a lot of clubs have been tracking him since an U14's Nike tournament a few years ago and United have flatly refused to entertain any interest as they know what potential they are sat on. There was a rep from Adidas who had joined our table who said he'd been trying to tie him up for a while but he just wasn't bothered about sponsorship, just wanted to play football! Sounds promising! The Adidas guy also said a few people have had a look at Slew but just don't rate him at the moment???
Another guy joined the table who it turned out was from Blackburn and clearly knew most of the other people on the table and started his conversation with, and I quote " Have you heard whats happened at Sheff United? They've made 15 redundant including all of the scouts"!! I dont know whether he'd heard there was a Blade sat on their table but looking at the rest of them I dont thnk any of them had the ability to txt so I doubt it!
On a positive they all agreed that Pembo (as they all referred to him) was the best youth coach around at the moment and wouldn't be going anywhere soon!! On a negative, my customer was a Brighton fan and just gave me 5hit all day!
Like I say, dont shoot the messenger or try and accuse me of being a midweek fan I'm just passing on what I've heard today.
UTB!!!!"
To demonstrate the fact that to have a successful academy, you have to have a successful scouting network, just look across the city. At the moment they have no young home grown academy lads coming through. At the same time, they have no scouting network!
How can we as a club make the statement that we must rely more on our young talent and then chop the academy's right arm off by sacking all the scouts?
Not so anymore it seems!
PS. Interesting comments re Kennedy and Pembo!
Courtesy of Blades Mad:
"Been in an exec box@ Leicester today. Some interesting views ...
Let me start with saying i've never claimed to be itk about anything when it comes to United other my own personal views, so please dont shoot the messenger I'm just passing on what I've heard today.
Due to circumstance through work I found myself today in a Leicester City Directors Box. Now at no point did I try to mingle with the people that were there, in fact due to me and my customer being an hour early we were on our own until an old guy with a Wolves coat sat next to us. We got chatting and I told him I was a Blade and with him clearly being a scout asked him what he thought of our youth set up. His response was something along the lines of "You lot have in my opinion the single best out and out U18 English defender in this country, and its not McGuire" I said Kennedy? The guy was a bit shocked I'd heard of him but seemed really interested. He said a lot of clubs have been tracking him since an U14's Nike tournament a few years ago and United have flatly refused to entertain any interest as they know what potential they are sat on. There was a rep from Adidas who had joined our table who said he'd been trying to tie him up for a while but he just wasn't bothered about sponsorship, just wanted to play football! Sounds promising! The Adidas guy also said a few people have had a look at Slew but just don't rate him at the moment???
Another guy joined the table who it turned out was from Blackburn and clearly knew most of the other people on the table and started his conversation with, and I quote " Have you heard whats happened at Sheff United? They've made 15 redundant including all of the scouts"!! I dont know whether he'd heard there was a Blade sat on their table but looking at the rest of them I dont thnk any of them had the ability to txt so I doubt it!
On a positive they all agreed that Pembo (as they all referred to him) was the best youth coach around at the moment and wouldn't be going anywhere soon!! On a negative, my customer was a Brighton fan and just gave me 5hit all day!
Like I say, dont shoot the messenger or try and accuse me of being a midweek fan I'm just passing on what I've heard today.
UTB!!!!"
To demonstrate the fact that to have a successful academy, you have to have a successful scouting network, just look across the city. At the moment they have no young home grown academy lads coming through. At the same time, they have no scouting network!
How can we as a club make the statement that we must rely more on our young talent and then chop the academy's right arm off by sacking all the scouts?
