England win a world cup. (U20s)
I only recognise a few of the players we had out, so that means not many of them are seeing top league football atm. Would be nice if we could actually develop some more English talent, maybe this result will help some of them get bigger games.
Portugal went to the final vs Brazil in 2011, out of that roster 3 players went on to become 2016 european champions. You can't have them all, but some stand out and become "world class" players.
Look at brazil's roster at that final:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_F...s#.C2.A0Brazil
England's got some very talented youngsters but half of them go to rot in chelsea youth set up where they get loaned out to whoever to help with FFP laws and national player requirements. Pretty sad but competition for these kids is so high. Madrid teams and barca seem to get transfers bans every 2 years over it too trying to sign em young
Rashford had more minutes this season than any other kid in the league.
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How many minutes did chelsea youth get? Now with terry gone there isn't even a chelsea youth player in the team
Looks like fc porto is selling Andre Silva to Milan for 38-40M. I wouldn't pay that price, Don't think he's that good, but oh well, they have to sell... wonder what striker will they get to replace him... another depoitre... ?
Trophies won in the last 20 years:
Spurs - 1
Chelsea - 21
Tottenham are a feeder club.
They're not under pressure to win trophies every season. They can afford to risk playing youth.
Even considering, we've produced a captain who has captained 5 title winning sides. Been an international captain and won UEFA defender of the year many times.
Please. Spurs have won nothing.
Bobby Carlos having a mare as per.
OT; Seen youth teams win WC/EC etc and amount to nothing.
Hopefully the youngsters get gametime. Can't see it happening though.
Yeah not saying its easy to break into the first team by any means. But you can't expect to compete on the international stage with a poor domestic league or a domestic league that is 99% from spain/brazil etc and the talented youth you do have is horded up by cash rich clubs and loaned to other clubs so if they do show promise they can be sold off for a tidy profit.