Touchy Subject I Know But,

[pete1967b]

I will start this anyway,

It may have been discussed before sorry if it has but just looking at our U23s tother night, 6 players starting the game foreign ?, Is this our future, Now i have nothing against them before anyone says that god knows we have aplenty in our 1st team but moving forward i am not so sure if i am happy with this, We could be a Chelski amongst many more in years to come, Is this was our fans want?, Or is it just success regardless that we all want?,

Me personally it seems the way forward in this day and age but i dont particularly like it, We are always going to get a mixture but we want our boys coming through the Academy to make the grade surely, Ok there might be the odd one or two but their chances are at present greatly limited..

[alfinyalcabo]

Nice one Pete,light the blue touchpaper and stand well back (or should I say Black ) lol

[WTF11]

I will start this anyway,

It may have been discussed before sorry if it has but just looking at our U23s tother night, 6 players starting the game foreign ?, Is this our future, Now i have nothing against them before anyone says that god knows we have aplenty in our 1st team but moving forward i am not so sure if i am happy with this, We could be a Chelski amongst many more in years to come, Is this was our fans want?, Or is it just success regardless that we all want?,

Me personally it seems the way forward in this day and age but i dont particularly like it, We are always going to get a mixture but we want our boys coming through the Academy to make the grade surely, Ok there might be the odd one or two but their chances are at present greatly limited..

Agree 100% (no surprise there!)

[pete1967b]

Nice one Pete,light the blue touchpaper and stand well back (or should I say Black ) lol

I have mentioned foreign Alf not anyones colour...

[Billyni]

They are not very good anyway regardless of where they come from or what colour they are.

[Jezleeds]

Blimey where did race suddenly come into it? Pete was just talking about nationality.

Meanwhile is it possible that Ian Harte lives in Eastleigh - WTF!

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....plan-1-8998368

BB - over to you!

[WTF11]

Blimey where did race suddenly come into it? Pete was just talking about nationality.

Meanwhile is it possible that Ian Harte lives in Eastleigh - WTF!

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co....plan-1-8998368

BB - over to you!

Not that I know Jez, but I did have a word in his shell-like the other day,😉

[LeedsFTW]

I don't really know about the quality of the of the under 23's either prior to or after the squad was supplemented with players from abroad. The only measure I really have is that not very many youngsters have really made the step up to the first team in recent times. I reckon we have had maybe 1 a season in recent times and before that there was quite a barren spell. I also think there was a relaxation of the scouting regulations which means Premier clubs are allowed to fish in our pond, which is not helping our cause with the academy.

So what i am trying to say is that the current crop of youngsters may be deemed to not have the potential to make the grade to the first team and it could be a few years before we see the next Academy grad make it? ( again this is assumptions)

What I do believe is that we are recruiting these new players for the U23's mainly for the marketing value of making Leeds a global brand, if a couple of them improve and enhance the first team then great, if they dont and we sell them for a profit - then no real harm done at this point.

If Leeds want to remain even semi competitive, we have to continue to look at ourselves as a global brand, because that's the way the game has changed and all our competitors are following this route too.

Hopefully, we are working hard to bring in home-grown players to our academy at a younger age and we will benefit in a few years, but this type of news wouldn't make any headline's

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

It's already been mentioned that Ian harte doesn't like the foreign influence both from players and coaches in our u23s, I'm not a fan either if truth be told

Farrell Huffer coyle hosannah Denton pearce nicell shaughnessy O'connor Phillips Vieira Vieira Shackleton stevens Clarke dalby wilks Roberts

That would be a feezable British and Irish 18 that are all 23 and under, how many of those though are leeds born, West Yorkshire born, Yorkshire born, and then how many of that 18 are not.

It's all a big debate and unless the club ditch Corboran and Orta, chances are, its not going to change any time soon

I know folk don't like former players becoming first team coach but I think it would benefit the club having former players, better still former academy grads coaching our u23s and youth teams, they've been there done it and no what it's like to play for Leeds and what it takes, I'd be hiring them straight away if I was leeds owner, but I'm not

[joellufcprice]

Our U23 Is full of foreign kids because our British ones are useless after years of mismanagement. Is there any point in getting be at 6/7-0 every week just so we can put British kids out on the pitch who will never kick a ball for the first team?

Mentioned this before but the fact we are buying foreign kids is positive because it means at least the few English lads we have that are decent are developing with our decent players and not being held back by sub standard footballers. The true sign of this regime will be in 4/5 years time when the current u11/u13/u15 squads are coming through because they're the ones that will have developed under this system.

Football is a different make up to what it was 10-15 years ago, think people still believe it is the same as when we were last in the premiership!