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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 10:46 am to TFTC)
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To be fair Shitty's youth system were never going to get them to the point they are today, but they'd be fools to not invest heavily in it today...
it all starts from the ground up, the revolving door of players will never work in the long run. Develop your core talent then buy impact players in areas of need.
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 10:46 am to WarSlamEagle)
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at least there is one honest united fan on this board.
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Ryne Sandberg 
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Our youth system now would never had been possible without money and some success. Thanks to Bloody Oil Money, we're getting there. The long term plan is admittedly to work like Utd's
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 10:47 am to theOG)
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at least there is one honest united fan on this board.
there is a nice list of youth from united to have played for the first team
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WarSlamEagle 
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it all starts from the ground up, the revolving door of players will never work in the long run. Develop your core talent then buy impact players in areas of need.
In a perfect world.
But how many former youth players have started for United in EPL matches this year?
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it all starts from the ground up, the revolving door of players will never work in the long run. Develop your core talent then buy impact players in areas of need.
Yeah, but they were garbage before the money... they needed that to jump start their club... Sturridge was a victim of that influx of cash, when they started buying strikers out the wazoo...
But I agree, they cant sustain that model, but now have the foundation to build more organically...
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 10:51 am to WarSlamEagle)
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In a perfect world.
just look at this current squad
Evans,Welbeck,Clevery Scholes, Fletcher,Giggs all from the youth team
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theOG
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 10:52 am to TFTC)
i think we will start seeing people who have come up through our system start getting appearances and making major contributions in the next few seasons.
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 10:59 am to theOG)
United have a fantastic academy. And it goes beyond simply who plays for them. There are several high profile players who no longer play at United who went through the academy. Beckham, Pique, Shawcross, O'Shea, Phil Neville, Rossi, etc.
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:00 am to LSUSOBEAST1)
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:01 am to LSUSOBEAST1)
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United have a fantastic academy. And it goes beyond simply who plays for them. There are several high profile players who no longer play at United who went through the academy. Beckham, Pique, Shawcross, O'Shea, Phil Neville, Rossi, etc.
WSE is one of the best posters on this board but this is showing his age and how long hes been following united. I been following this club for almost 20 years, damn i feel old and ive been able to watch the factory of players they have produced.
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theOG
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just look at this current squad
Evans,Welbeck,Clevery Scholes, Fletcher,Giggs all from the youth team
this is actually pretty impressive.
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WarSlamEagle
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:02 am to LSUSOBEAST1)
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And it goes beyond simply who plays for them.
This is why it's a great academy.
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Evans,Welbeck,Clevery Scholes, Fletcher,Giggs
Fletcher hasn't played much and is done for the rest of this year.
Giggs and Scholes are United lifers.  Rotation options.
Evans, Welbeck, and Cleverley would make United's first choice 18. Cleverley has become a regular starter and has the tools to be a star in the future.
My point was that, like most big money teams, the majority of United's stars are not homegrown. We could only list six out of 20+ starters for United.
And yes, you've followed this team for 20 years. I'm not even 20 years old yet. But that's alright.
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theOG
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:05 am to WarSlamEagle)
yeah, seems you all have been doing it right for quite some time.
i'm very excited with where our academy is right now and the direction it is heading. there are six or seven guys in your EDS who i think will be able to make major contributions to the first team in the next two to five years.
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:06 am to theOG)
hopefully your management uses them and not just sell them or loan them off while just bringing in big name players keeping the the revolving door going
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theOG
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:07 am to theOG)
glad nasri wasn't in that wall.
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theOG
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hopefully your management uses them and not just sell them or loan them off while just bringing in big name players keeping the the revolving door going
right, players that come through the academy need to be able to realistically do so with the mindset that if they do things right then they have a legit shot at playing for the first team.
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:11 am to theOG)
mmmmmmm great run now lets see if it was a dive
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theOG
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seems daniel has been taking lessons from the suarez school of diving.
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TigerTalker142
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| re: #GB4G thread City vs Pool (Posted on 2/3/13 at 11:12 am to theOG)
Dammit. Come on Sturridge, your better then that
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