latest Scotland U15 squad has 3 united players in it, 4 if you include a boy who left for celtic recently. maybe the future is bright just have to wait a couple of years
latest Scotland U15 squad has 3 united players in it, 4 if you include a boy who left for celtic recently. maybe the future is bright just have to wait a couple of years
I know of one young player on our books that is being taken away to Scotland squads above his age group and Celtic Rangers Hearts and Hibs all want. I keep trying to convince his mum to keep him here. Ultimately though they've got to do what's best for his chances of making his one and only shot at being a pro a reality. I just hope it can be at United.
Youth Development is a fluid thing. It far removed from being an exact science.
But things like coach education are something a club can control and influence in a massive way. It's the cornerstone in my eyes.
despite our development squad being poor, we still seem to bring through decent players and are always attracting interest from bigger clubs. the problem i have is we dont seem to be able to keep any decent prospects long enough before they are snapped up anymore.
the likes of russell, Armstrong, goodwillie, gauld, souttar and so on all came through and played over 50 games before leaving for bigger things. nowadays guys like Harry souttar, the boy freedman, even ali coote left without doing anything in the 1st team.
we do have decent players coming through. Matty smith, Alladice and ballantyne look decent. obviously still need to improve but theyre still young.
That's a symptom of slipping down from top six and challenging for Europe etc.
Moving upwards makes us a more attractive place to be.
Its McKinnon and Thompson who have failed us you do not need a good youth system to get out of the Championship you just need to sign the right players when you have the biggest budget in the league as we did.If you were to compare our budget v ST Mirren or Livingston it would be in comparison to Brendan Rodgers being a country mile behind Sevco and Aberdeen in 2nd place,FACT.
It’s a good comparison GB.
Even Ronnie delia was able to keep Celtic above the rest given their bigger budgets.
Can’t imagine csaba would be able to win league with Celtic either. It would be the same failings. But if that happened I’m sure it would be the celtic players fault and not csaba’s
We are throwing what money we have after bad. This Csaba decision could be the final breaking of United. I’m absolutely heartbroken about the whole thing and that we seem to be throwing away next season with same mistakes in key personnel, manager as cost us last time