: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:59 pm
Robbie Rotten wrote:
Yeah, we got Andre Wisdom from you. He got on the bench for the reserves last year and he was only 15, considering the majority of reserve players are 18+, it shows how well he's played. Was in the 18's at 14, too. Potentially brilliant player.
It's naive to expect that players are going to stay at a league 2 club when there is interest from a club like Liverpool, and some of these players will no doubt go on to achieve good things in the game.
However some of the bigger clubs have a habit of hoovering up any potential star at 13 and 14, and the stats show that most get lost in the system, and eventually lost to the professional game altogether, only the big club has nothing to lose in this instance, the player who doesn't make it, and the "lesser" club who spent a couple of years developing him never get any benefit.
There are at least two Premier League clubs (Man City and Blackburn) who run training sessions in the Bradford area, and round here has never exactly been a hotbed of football talent, so I dread to think what it is like elsewhere.
