Congrats to England under 20's!

Ouch!

 

I take it that you disagree with my assessment, CFC?

 

Really now? How many players playing for you have come through your academy .

Anyway, my point being i'm sure all these u20 players are attainable for Spurs at < than 10m a pop.

No one is stopping your club from giving the golden generation a chance that it deserves. Think about how great your net spend will be too

 

And they'd all deserve it

 

Bodanke feels he has more chances at Liverpool than Chelsea. If they had made more use of the loan system they might have got their very own Harry Kane for free, rather than pay zillions for Lukaku or whoever. Having said that, I think Bodanke would have been better off, football wise anyway, at a team like Bournemouth or Brighton .

 

Kane is a very good player. A flat track bully par excellance.

But, I would say there are better goal-scorers in Europe. Messi, Ronaldo, possibly Lewa, Aubameyang, Higuain, Ibra, Cavani, Belotti, etc...

 

And which one is going to join Chelsea

 

Kyle Walker-Peters, primarily a RB but can play on the left as he has in the tournament. Most here at Spurs think he could become the long term successor at RB, even more so if Walker joins City this summer.

 

The really short black lad who played left back yesterday?

I didn't see much of the tournament bar the final but I didn't think he covered himself in much glory at the weekend. Probably because he was played out of position but the Venezuelans routinely came down that flank.

 

Which is why the only Premier League side that he failed to score against was Cardiff!
Do everyone a favour and crawl back under that rock, eh?

 

While it's good that we did win the U20 World Cup wouldn't we'd have just walked it if we'd used players like Chilwell, Gray, Rashford, Holgate, Abraham and Roberts?

 

Yeah that's him.

I thought he handled himself pretty well to be honest, although perhaps I'm biased. Was great throughout the tournament from the bits I managed to catch. Naturally much better on the right hand side, though.

 

Some good players in that group, but you could never say we would have walked it.

 

Most of them are playing in the U21 Euros, aren't they? Starts on Friday.

 

Yeah I know but the point remains. If we wanted to make absolutely sure of the win we'd have played them, right?

Either way it shows how much talent there actually is at that level.

 

They couldn't better Kane in the Prem.

That is what makes him so very special.

 

No, of course not. But a lot of those players have Champions League/Premier League experience.

 

Southgate talked about trying to avoid overplaying some of the youngsters recently, which he believes is what happened to Kane.
He spent two summers without having a break, having been called up by the U21s one year and the seniors the next.
I think he wants to avoid replicating that, which sounds quite sensible.

It does seem like a good sign that there are so many talented youngsters around, though.
A lot of clubs seem to have turned the corner with this now, in my opinion.
Some managers will always go with experience, but that's something that can't really be addressed, unfortunately.

 

And the group at U20 have a bond of winning that they can bring forward. Let the U21's push for their own bit of history