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The problem is Bohey, that when I read about how Martinez wants to have full control of everything from the academy all the way to transfers, I get very concerned. By all accounts our youth academy has become one of the best in the world (which will take another 5 years or more before we see the real fruit of that), ever since Segura and Borrell came in. The idea that Martinez, an inexperienced manager of debateable ability could change all of this and more, surely has to make you stop and think. A lot of damage could occur if we get this next appointment wrong, and we're not in a strong enough position to absorb that damage and carry on. It's a lot of power for one man to have, and in the past perhaps we've given too much power to the wrong people, and it's got us to where we are.
And it's not just Martinez, there are lots of managers who could be a problem if given full control. Now you mention Wenger and Ferguson, but those are GREAT managers, and so it's not really a danger of the club being ruined. We can't say the same of Martinez. There was a perfectly good Youth system already in place before Segura and Borrell came in, it was run by Stevie Heighway and Hugh McCaulay, Benitez came in and upset it all. What have this Spanish Duo of Segura and Borrell brought through of any note when you compare it to what Stevie Heighway and Hugh McCaulay nurtured with some of Liverpool's greatest talents, including McMananman, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen and Jamie Carragher, no comparasson.. And these all happened in the last decade? No wait, they didn't, did they? They got the boot and rightly so because they had allowed our once proud academy to fall into disrepair. Now we're at least seeing potential again, not least with Kelly and Sterling.
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the have a far better record than what we have now..kelly is the only one, sterling we had to shell out big money for.
owen,mcmannaman,gerrard,carra,fowler
or kelly.
rafa picked a fight with heighway and produced el zhar
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the have a far better record than what we have now..kelly is the only one, sterling we had to shell out big money for.
owen,mcmannaman,gerrard,carra,fowler
or kelly.
rafa picked a fight with heighway and produced el zhar And remind us who Heighway produced this century? I'm not saying they did a bad job back in the day when SG was a wee lad, but he's not been that for a long time now and Heighway had all those years that he did nothing with.
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the have a far better record than what we have now..kelly is the only one, sterling we had to shell out big money for.
owen,mcmannaman,gerrard,carra,fowler
or kelly.
rafa picked a fight with heighway and produced el zhar And remind us who Heighway produced this century? I'm not saying they did a bad job back in the day when SG was a wee lad, but he's not been that for a long time now and Heighway had all those years that he did nothing with. Thats the way Youth systems work, how many bright young things have United brought through apart from maybe Wellbeck since the golden generation of Scholes, Beckhams, Nevilles and Butts. I cant seriously believe people comparing what the two Spaniards have brought through next to Stevie Heighway and Hugh McCaulay, one brought through Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard and the others brought through Daniel Pacheco and el zhar, I rest my case.
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best post of the week so far.
I will listen, only if your answer contains wisdom
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had a cheeky £10 on Van Gaal to be our new boss last night and FSG to scrap the DOF idea, at 16/1, didn't think it was a bad shout, he is a man who has done both roles before, and no other manager wants to work with a DOF!
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