Due to the current trend of buying players for ridiculous amount of money, the youth team setup of most team are been neglected. Even Chelsea fc with the best youth team setup in England have always failed to give any of their youth team players a fighting Chance in the blues color. Most are always been sent on loan and in some occasions, been sold.
But with the Astonishing run of Ajax in the champions league reminded everyone the importance of youth players. Not every team have money to spend and throw around but most try their best to give the best to Their youth teams..
Barcelona once enjoyed investing in the youth team and it paid off but with the recent trend of buying players, that philosophy have been abandoned. So many great players came through the Barcelona youth set up, players like Iniesta, Bojan, Messi, xavi, bosquet, valdes, fabregas Tello and so on. But the philosophy now a heads is to buy and buy with the youth team set up neglected.
Clubs have failed to realize however that the youth team set up have a long rich advantage over the buying and buying philosophy. Some of the importance of a youth team are:
the club philosophy would be integrated into the players DNA at an early age
get to spend less in acquiring them
they understand the way football is been played and they adapted to the team easily
they are usually more loyal than bought stars
readily available and could be called upon anytime when needed
Importance of a youth team
Due to the current trend of buying players for ridiculous amount of money, the youth team setup of most team are been neglected. Even Chelsea fc with the best youth team setup in England have always failed to give any of their youth team players a fighting Chance in the blues color. Most are always been sent on loan and in some occasions, been sold.
But with the Astonishing run of Ajax in the champions league reminded everyone the importance of youth players. Not every team have money to spend and throw around but most try their best to give the best to Their youth teams..
Barcelona once enjoyed investing in the youth team and it paid off but with the recent trend of buying players, that philosophy have been abandoned. So many great players came through the Barcelona youth set up, players like Iniesta, Bojan, Messi, xavi, bosquet, valdes, fabregas Tello and so on. But the philosophy now a heads is to buy and buy with the youth team set up neglected.
Clubs have failed to realize however that the youth team set up have a long rich advantage over the buying and buying philosophy. Some of the importance of a youth team are:
the club philosophy would be integrated into the players DNA at an early age
get to spend less in acquiring them
they understand the way football is been played and they adapted to the team easily
they are usually more loyal than bought stars
readily available and could be called upon anytime when needed