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Another one slips the net

Just read that we lost out on Johnson of Man City as the lad came through our youth system. [TribalFootball] So we got rid of Baines, Jaga, Johnson and Barton. Probably more too. Was our youth set up that shite or did these guys develop late?
Gavin Harris, Wales Posted 20/08/2007 at 18:21:25

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Dave Roberts
1 Posted 20/08/2007 at 20:39:43

It was shite.

Allan
2 Posted 20/08/2007 at 20:50:19

They used to be girls.

Harvey
3 Posted 20/08/2007 at 20:55:43

It must have been really shite!

Question of the grass is greener here I think...

Ball, Jeffers, Osman, Hibbert, Anichebe, Vaughan...these are the ones that played regularly in the Premiership. There’re a shedload that have carried on playing in the lower leagues without playing for our first team. Oh and who brought up that lad in Manchester with glass feet?

Granted, we’ve missed out on a fair few, don’t mention the fact that virtually every scouser to ply his trade for Liverpool seems to have been a boyhood Toffee!

Mark Stone
4 Posted 20/08/2007 at 21:09:52

Baines wasn’t at Evertons academy was he? I thought he went from Liverpool schoolboys straight to Wigan, unless anyone knows otherwise?

Steve Ferns
5 Posted 20/08/2007 at 21:31:19

Johnson played for about 5 different teams. It appears as if he was touted about. He did not really join us and I’d be interested to know how much City offered his Dad when they signed him. He’s a mercenary in the making.

Jon Wilson
6 Posted 20/08/2007 at 21:42:16

The year Jagielka and Barton were released the academy team didn’t gel, so Walter decided not to keep players on merit but to release the whole year group. What a guy!

Gavin Harris
7 Posted 20/08/2007 at 22:34:25

If liverpool are going abroad to get their youngsters then we should pick up the local talent over the next 5 years.

Fingers crossed though!

Steve Ferns
8 Posted 20/08/2007 at 22:51:48

jags and barton’s academy year was axed due to cost cutting. They got rid of the whole team to save a few quid. How much did it cost us in retrospect?