Source: SKY_Sports
Fergie - No time for youth
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has declared that managers of the 'big four' do not have the time to develop young English talent.[LNB] With the pressures now so great to win trophies and even games, managers find themselves with an even shorter time to build a successful team.[LNB]Therefore the lure of buying ready-made foreigners compared to training up a youth-team graduate is much more luxurious for everyone involved at a club.[LNB]With more money at stake with the so called 'big four', the pressure to succeed is even greater and it is for this reason why the Scot believes there is a lack of young English players coming through at the country's top clubs.[LNB]"When you are a top four club, you have to understand that you need success right away," Ferguson told Shortlist magazine.[LNB]"You can't wait three of four years for players to ease in like perhaps you can with clubs who are not expected to win silverware year in year out."[LNB]CriticalFerguson has also been openly critical of Fifa's plans to push through the 6+5 rule where a club are expected to start with six players from the nationality of where they are based in order to increase the number of youth grauates.[LNB]One man who would support such a move would be England boss Fabio Capello after he declared that only 35 per cent of Premier League players were eligible to play for the national team.[LNB]If the rule came in at present it would appear that United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal would all suffer with a combined total of just eight English players starting in their last respective fixtures.[LNB]That measly total is matched by top four hopefuls Aston Villa when they fielded eight English players for Wednesday's Uefa Cup clash with CSKA Moscow.[LNB]
