Never realised 'Mikey' had played so little for someone lauded on their forums and i love the perpetual lie that that they dont care about the 10
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Harris Tottle
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9:44 PM - 1 day ago
#225
I’m not sure people realise how bad things are at youth level, not just at our club but across the piece. I saw quite a lot of Dembele at youth level. He’s an extraordinary talent in theory, but you see in his decision making (in the rare times you see him) that he’s miles off being ready. They are just not prepared to step up and it’s probably no surprise that we buy in so many young players from elsewhere.
Mikey Johnstone is nearly 22. He’s had injury issues of course but he’s had less than 20 starts 4 years into a pro career. Whether that’s because he’s not ready, not good enough or has not been given enough time to develop, it’s no matter. The age he is, if he’s not a regular, chances are he won’t be.
Youth development strategy is just one of the myriad of issues at our club. Transfers have become almost comically bad. We have three hugely expensive loan players. Mo is just another version of something we already have. Duffy being recruited to a team that has the bulk of the ball suggests he was signed by someone who had never seen us play. Laxalt is neither a good defender (no positional sense) or wing back (Lee Naylor crossed better). We keep signing players who are not match fit. We have guys like Rogic who can’t play beyond 60 minutes.
We have a £50m payroll and have issues in almost every position.
I don’t really care about the 10. I care more about people controlling our club who have not seen this rapid decline playing out when Rab from Royston could see it. Livi today was just another rerun of the same movie. A hard working and organised team is even money to beat our overpaid bunch of sideways passers. That was as much true in July as it is in January. And no one who could have changed that seems too bothered about it.