Forshaw v Bate or Loanee - Age v Youth or Experience

[Monaco_Totty]

Disagree Oz.
In today's game they need to be really prepared and ready to undertake the hammer on young limbs.Lot more games played with more clubs involved in expanding Euro leagues and more pre-season lucrative global money friendlies to fit in around the ridiculous international team calendars of games with very little rest time in between- Philips a recent example !

First hyped 'super-kid' I can recall at Leeds was Wesley Boyle from Portadown aged just 16 who played alongside Harry Kewell and Jonathan Woodgate for Leeds’ U18s when they won the FA Youth Cup in 1997.Top of my head Ben Parker another young one pushed in early and was in and out via injuries and the list goes on,Sam Byram,Lewis Cook,Charlie Taylor picked up niggling injuries during ages 18/19/20/and early 20's.
Yes, all players mentioned had careers eventually headed in rather different directions but the few I mention always carried serious hampering injuries.

Squad game now Oz for a reason and I'm with Bielsa regarding physical development,movement techniques,diet and mental health development when it comes to developing young professionals via sophisticated training and man management skills as early 20 year olds on big money don't think like same age groups of years gone by.



I dare not tell you which younger ones at Leeds drive a Maserati Levante 3.0 V6 & Porsche 718 Cayman.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Ferguson does not really get enough credit for how much he managed the pressure on and game time of the 1990s kids he played.

Very few can cope with the pressure and physical demands and those that do often suffer later as MT says - Whiteside being a good example who played regularly at 16 and internationally at 17.

Bielsa operates a hierarchy system too which is partly based on age.

Is it Joffy that drives the Porsche MT?