Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
Ah yes, all those kids he just wouldn't play, I've probably forgotten about a lot of them, do me a favour will you mon ami, just write me a list of all those kids he wouldn't give a chance to, who have made it elsewhere. I'll put an hour aside later to read through it, should be an interesting read.
I was reading the appraisal report from the dudes who look into Academy status sinkov and one of the major criterion is to gauge how many kids come through the system hit the first team. Quite frankly, SD did not trust them, hence he would not play them, hence we lost our hard earned status.

Citeh despite their hundreds of millions, occasionally chuck one or two of their kids into first team games.

Pace seems to have a hard on about the Youth Development aspect of the club, but if I was a bean counter, I'd be saying shut it down.