Denver Royal Which mgrs have used Academy was your point? Anyway...
Meyler 3 year deal. If he pans out, doubt Rino emerges as he did.
Stam 1st yr mgr, had a go, playoff final loss on pens, bad and inexperienced 2nd year. Short tenure, who cares.
Your 1871 thingy was silly? Going back to start of the Academies in modern era, maybe.
To your overall point (I think?), how can we be successful, how viable the PL is organically, remains to be seen.
Lot's of time spent on how thing's shouldn't have been, and rather less on how we get there again.
Good point, there's waaay less chat re. that, than dwelling on the past. (Yann's 1 yr extension. Again?)
Assuming PL is/should be the goal, what would/should it look like? Academy weighting will be criticized accordingly.
Burnley’s model? How should/will we differ?
Of course if Meyler worked, we may not be having this conversation...but my point really was that Rinomhota was still thrown in ahead of Swift, Clement, Edwards when fit etc...so to say Rino got in on "injuries" is a little misguiding IMO. And in all honesty, how many academy players would actually be given a chance without injuries. Foden who's supposed to be the next "big" thing isn't getting in City's 18. It took Hudson-Odoi 8 months to get in regularly for Chelsea
If you look at the times we got promoted, we did it with a certain ethos. Young, hungry hard working players on the cheap from lower leagues (Kitson, Doyle, Long, Le Fondre, the list could go on). Maybe under McDermott, we didn't have a "young" side but certainly players with the correct attitude. Apart from Drenthe, Adkins generally bought into our ethos too
And this is what the focus should be on now. Not chucking money senselessly at older players with a longish contract (not that we could) but focusing on what made us successful in the past (players with a hunger and desire to succeed, which often involves the academy lads)
Burnley's model? Is a great example, they got up to the Prem twice under Dyche in 3 seasons with the correct attitude. The chairman/fans didn't act like spoilt kids when they got relegated (modern football for you) and stuck with him, a great example of time and patience being rewarded