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I have read claims on here that we "ruin youngsters " by that i suppose its meant that as we buy them up as future talents, never play them and them discard them, well lets try to put the record straight here.
Talent will always show through, if some of those players we have bought over the years have disappeared to lower clubs its because they havent showed enough improvement from the (could be budding talent) to the definite article, they havent been good enough to dislodge the first team player choice and end of story really , how many of these youngsters have gone onto be great football stars.? so that would prove that spurs have been correct in not keeping them on, and as for ruining them, well thats laughable really, as i said, how can you destroy talent ? if its there in the first place.
Then again we have those players and retain them like huddlestone, lennon and now bale, and its funny how these players havent also been ruined by spurs in their budding and learning years as all the other poor buggers were?
I once coached 14-16 year olds, we had one youngster who was a fantastic player, he outshone all the other lads so much that they were jealous of him, he later had a trial for southend united and was turned down as not good enough and the point in telling you this is that there is a massive gulf out there between so called budding talent and those that actually go on to be football stars, so i would say the percentage that come through at spurs is about correct when you look at how many football prospect players out of say ? 100 actually go on to be a success in the sport.
As for ruining young players and treating them as cattle, i am afraid the very same players do it to clubs when their name has become big enough, they hang out for millions in a contract, they go on bosman free,s, they get unsettled by bigger clubs, its the name of the game, sadly.
Talent will always show through, if some of those players we have bought over the years have disappeared to lower clubs its because they havent showed enough improvement from the (could be budding talent) to the definite article, they havent been good enough to dislodge the first team player choice and end of story really , how many of these youngsters have gone onto be great football stars.? so that would prove that spurs have been correct in not keeping them on, and as for ruining them, well thats laughable really, as i said, how can you destroy talent ? if its there in the first place.
Then again we have those players and retain them like huddlestone, lennon and now bale, and its funny how these players havent also been ruined by spurs in their budding and learning years as all the other poor buggers were?
I once coached 14-16 year olds, we had one youngster who was a fantastic player, he outshone all the other lads so much that they were jealous of him, he later had a trial for southend united and was turned down as not good enough and the point in telling you this is that there is a massive gulf out there between so called budding talent and those that actually go on to be football stars, so i would say the percentage that come through at spurs is about correct when you look at how many football prospect players out of say ? 100 actually go on to be a success in the sport.
As for ruining young players and treating them as cattle, i am afraid the very same players do it to clubs when their name has become big enough, they hang out for millions in a contract, they go on bosman free,s, they get unsettled by bigger clubs, its the name of the game, sadly.
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