AHEAD of a home cup tie against Bournemouth where young players are set to future, John Gibbons is joined by Kristian Walsh and Rob Gutmann to profile Cameron Brannagan, Joao Teixeira and Connor Randall.
They also talk about how much circumstance plays a part in a young players development and the knock on effect of having so many young players around the first team or out on loan
Delighted to hear the young players getting a look in this evening. Particularly Teixeira, hugely keen to see how he does.
Really glad you done this show, been thinking one dedicated to these fringe players was due.
While we’d all love for these young players to go on to become first 11 players it’s not the end of the day if they don’t.
There’s nothing wrong if these young players go on to become very valuable squad players. You’d mentioned the likes of Phil Neville, Wes Brown and John O’Shea for Utd, well it’s about time we start producing AND HOLDING ON TO our own squad players instead of spending £5/6/7/8mil on bringing them in.
We have had a few in the past but if they don’t become first choice we tend to sell them on instead of keeping them as squad players.
Surely keeping a guy who’s been at the club 6/7/8/9/10 yrs to be a squad player is better than buying someone in who’s new to the club and is looking big wages.
Wisdom should have been kept, as you mentioned, to be back up right back. He’s played right back before for the club and for other clubs in this league so sending him out on loan when we didn’t have a fit back up was simply bizarre.
These players that have a history with Liverpool, that already know what’s expected, knows the ethos, knows the formations and tactics, knows the others players are gonna have an advantage over some Spanish player we’ve bought for £7mil from Barcas B team.
Looking at it purely financially, if we can save £20-30mil on having our own home grown squad players, 3 or 4 of them then we can use that money on bringing in another quality player or go to help with the wages of several to quality players.