our policy has moved on. I for one am greatly in favor of accelerating progress. 1. We are now actually FINALLY loaning out players. Lets be clear if you ar 19-21 U21 football is not going to develop you. 6 months of it at 19 and you hit the plateau. Loans for suso et al will improve them radically. Robinson, suso, n'goo. they will all come back better players.... better doesn't mean good enough in all cases 2. We have accelerated young players to U21. u18s playing u21 at least have a step up to make to compete there. That at least is positive. 3. young enough doesn't matter... only good enough and rossiter for example shows why we accelerate players. that all said. I think we have reached a saturation point with young players in the first team. wisdom, ibe, sterling... we see borini at 11mil going on loan to sunderland.... joke really. we need to perform Now not in 5 years time and the potential traps is the one wenger got into. Thus ic can see a big fall out at our academy in the next couple of years. The question simply must be how to sustain this going forward. Utd didn't, arsenal didn't..... sorry but they did not. since 1995 utd have got one or two through using laons etc, they've sold far more than ever got through. Rafael and welbeck are as close as you'll come to a consistent success story for utd. arsenal are the same... they bought jenkinson, the rest are all bought as well now..... If LFC can have 3/4 homegrown players at all ages in the squad we'll be doing well... one must remember the 3 i mentioned above we bought in not developed from 8. we had 2 for YEARS. one finally retired. Its about improving that now.
Reserves playing sunderland on lfc.tv. 3-2 up at the moment. Ilori, Alberto, Sterling, Ibe, Kelly all playing
Wow - we won 5-2 after being 2-0 down, and having a man sent off! Luis Alberto hattrick and really grew into the game. Sterling was brilliant in the second half.
Sunderland had some good players in their side and were top of the league before yesterdays game so was a very good result I started watching beginning of the second half and was really impressed, Supposedly the first half wasnt as good, butit was a team that woudnt have played together much as it was a mix of very young lads: Rossiter, Dunn, Lloyd jones, fringe players: Sterling, Ibe, Kelly and new guys: Alberto and ilori. Some of the passing play and confidence on the ball looked better than the first team did on monday. (But it is a different level.)
Alberto and Sterling looked a class above (which was expected!). Continue to impressed with Rossiter and we're crying out for a player like in our first team - strong in the challenge, reads the game well, covers the ground but so good on the ball with an eye for a pass.
Worth posting I think! [video=youtube;NkHhBXGeJUI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkHhBXGeJUI&sns=em[/video]
the turn was as nice as the finish. that showed awareness. the fact he could spot the keeper that far off his line is the time it took him to look up after that turn speaks well of the lad. technically excellent.... but keeper at fault... jsut like peopel don't want to give ibrahimovic that much credit for joe harts error in the england game
Liverpool U21s were in impressive form as they beat Manchester City 2-0 on Monday night - and if you're an LFCTV Online subscriber, you can relive the best of the action now. Adam Morgan netted a spectacular long-range lob to give the Reds the lead at Ewen Fields before Cameron Brannagan side-footed a second to seal the win.
