Unfortunately then he won't be an attacker in the Liverpool team - he just isn't really close to the level required to play as part of that front three.
His contract expires on 30th June 2020.
Oh yes.... curtains for the boy for sure now.
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What happened to Juanma? Seems to have disappeared off the radar.
Agreed! He is too slow to be a future Robbo . He is like a Jon Flanagan .2 (the Spanish version). Old fashioned flat back four full back but unfortunately will be most likely be release as you’ve said and head home for Spain. Looked promising when he came over but never progressed
Kelleher is the current third keeper, travels to every game with the senior team, plays the odd U-23 game as well, in terms of making the jump it all depends if Klopp wants to sign another keeper after Mignolet leaves in the summer
Thank you mate
It’s a brilliant strategy from Bilbao to produce future talents. I personally feel the problem especially with English clubs is that they bring in hundreds of kids over age groups and just pick out the best ones every year and drop players without proper thought, not giving specific focus and attention to lads who may be decent but lack in certain aspects. Height for example is an example I have seen while working for clubs academies over here in Ireland, for example for centre half’s any child that’s considered to small or weak is gone no consideration given. Instead we should take a leaf from these clubs like Bilbao who only have a limited pool of youngster that can build foundations with these lads , if they are a small centre half focus on pace and strength to add to their game like Puyol or Cannavaro did. Think it is a major issue in academies in the English leagues, academies are treated like manufacturing factories rather than development facilities. It is affecting the homegrown game in the premier league aswell as lads at a young age who are big are chosen over naturally talented smaller lads as the ‘big’ lads are more effective at youth level, then suddenly as everyone evens out strength and power can’t be used to win as much. Just my thoughts but I feel if we can start to get ideas from world renounced academies such as these, the future of the English and Irish national teams will be more likely to progress to the level of the German,Spanish and French teams.
I dont know when this trip was, but there has already been a shift in philosophy towards this and have recently acted to reduced the number of kids in the system at all age groups
Their performance is very good considering the self-imposed restrictions. They have qualified for the CL a couple of times in the modern era, but over the last decade or so they have only missed out on Europe a couple of times.
Yeah, I think that's what Mascot might have been referencing at the end.
I get your reservation, but I don’t think this change in philosophy would have meaningfully altered the wrong-headed thinking I was exposed to. What I experienced was primarily a system that prioritized the wrong things, and if that is the case it doesn’t matter how long you keep the kids around or how big the group is.
