24-07-2023, 05:56 PM
(24-07-2023, 10:36 AM)DeepBlue Wrote:(23-07-2023, 06:28 PM)mikey393 Wrote:(21-07-2023, 11:04 PM)BigSmokeBlue Wrote: 21 year old Tino Anjorin of Chelsea. The England under 20 attacking midfielder was seen at Pompey’s training ground on Friday. Doesn’t have a great injury record, but a quality player at this level.
This will be down to Jon Harley using his Chelsea contacts & No doubt watched at their Cobham training ground.
Surely, this is what we've been working at for some time & opens the door for potential other loans & signings.
Chelsea have the best Academy in the country & the most loan players than any other Prem League club.
Good positive move.
I would dispute the best academy in the country tag for Chelsea.
The biggest maybe, and certainly the most going out on loan, but not that many success stories given the size of the operation.
But more importantly they destroy the dreams of more young men than any other club by throwing them on the dole queue at a young age ... the inevitable result of going for quantity rather than quality. And by taking youngsters from such a wide area they weaken the academies of all the clubs in the south and disrupt the family life of families across the south by causing so much travel and disruption for the kids and parents with little prospect of success at the end of it.
In short I would say they embody everything that it is wrong in youth football in this country.
Chelsea also run franchise academies that have nothing to do with the club save for the fact the trainers wear Chelsea tracksuit tops. They have one in Portsmouth that parents pay into think Chelsea actually give a feck about their kids.
Chelsea, like all the PL clubs, only have these academies to either stop others from signing them or as a way of subsidising the purchase of players that they actually want. The football league is stuffed full of ex-PL youngsters that we think have potential just coz they came from a PL club. A case in point bring kunnticliffe (sorry could resist one last dig at the useless dick.