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And in my time following United, the players I've enjoyed watching most have almost all been foreign. Eric, Keane, Ole, Giggs, Ruud, Kanchelskis. I can only think of Scholes and Rooney as English players that I hold dear. Never really mattered to me where they're born, it's what they do in the shirt that counts. |
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Yep. If England was producing young players of the required quality they would get playing time. I think that's obvious when you look at some of the young players that have been given a shot at United, without question the biggest club in the country, even in recent years with all the extra pressure that now exists to produce immediate results.
Players don't suddenly become good at 20 or 21. Yes, they're still developing at that age, polishing certain technical aspects of their games and improving their tactical understanding, but if the raw material isn't there, no amount of polishing or match experience is going to make a significant difference. The technical development process is something that starts at 5 or 6, not at 18+. For me, this process at an earlier age is where the biggest problems lie. If you try to force increased numbers of English players into the top teams without correcting the problems in the player development from a very young age - something which would obviously be a tremendous undertaking and also something which would have have a significant lag time in terms of results at senior level - you're only going to decrease the quality in the league and further drive up the price of English players of decent ability. |
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