Stubbs talks up his England Under-20s

An experience like this will be good for their development, even a player with 1st team experiece like Barkley.

4-4-2 looks to be his style of football which I like, but he will probably never be appointed. We can do worse than Stubbs, for example Mark Hughes, Tony Pulis or Gary Megson.

Useful experience for the lads though of the 4 I would only expect Barkley to be featuring in the first team significantly next season.

Stubbs has got to play a part in the new managers setup.

In all the years Moyes was at Everton, he did not focus hard enough in finding and bringing the best young talent to Everton. If the talent was not coming through from the junior teams, it seems the best way would be to look in the lower leagues in the UK. Moyes is going to have to take much of the blame for that. The squad is getting older and we have known this would happen for a couple of years now. Why did Moyes not find us the young talent we need?

He had the chance to pick one or two of his best youngsters and nurture them in the first team squad. Lars Stubhaug, former academy goalkeeper, told to a Norwegian newspaper that Moyes never had anything to do with the youngsters directly. He only focused on the first team squad and the eleven that were supposed to start the next game.

I have come to understand that Moyes is not really a manager who can and likes to develop young players. But the number 1 criteria should be youth development, since that is where Everton have everything in place to take them further.

So, now that Moyes is gone, who is the better option in this area? Who can come in and really make a difference among the managers on the list that Kenwright has?

We need a manager who involves himself with the youth players, it can only get better from now on if Kenwright hires the right manager. Looking at Martinez I have to say he does look a better judge of youth talent then Moyes, but he also has the balls to stick with them and play them in the first team.

I agree with David Sheen that Martinez would have a far superior youth setup at Everton and the calibre of player would be better. Even if it was only one or two per season who made the step up to the first team we would be in a much stronger position. Remember a few years back when the first team was decimated by injuries and we played the half the youth team against BATE Borisov. They played really well, but only Coleman and Rodewell have gone on to be regulars (well Rodwell when fit!). Nothing better than seeing a home grown player turn into a top professional.

There are very few teams who can just keep churning out young players into the 1st team. I know people say Arsenal but that is not strictly true as they are renowned for raiding other teams academies.