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Bruce openly questions English setup
Bruce openly questions English setup | Sunderland manager Steve Bruce has astonishingly hit out at the setup of English football, saying that the nation is not producing enough great players to show for the high number of youth academies. Bruce is widely known for his time at Manchester United, a club that made its name for producing some of the country’s best talents such as Paul Scholes and David Beckham.
Now, Bruce criticizes the “monster” that has been created as Premier League clubs look overseas for new talent.
“We have created a monster with this Premier League. It’s a fantastic league, a very good league, but to actually bring people through, it has been difficult,” Bruce said.
“We are a victim of our own success in the Premier League. Me, for example, as a manager, I am scouring South America or Europe or whatever because we need them today to go and play.
“I would love to go and sign a 20-year-old from Bury or Rochdale or anywhere, I would love to sign a young English player.
“But unfortunately, we are not producing them and there have to be big questions asked of why, in our society, we are not producing them when we have got something like 42, 43 Academies in this country from eight to 16.
“We are simply not producing the quality of player that we used to produce. That’s the debate.”
Bruce went on to suggest that the way society is today is to blame. The United legend insists that the introduction of iPods and computers into everyday life has stopped the flow of kids in the park playing football.
“We produced them [at United], but I don’t think we are producing them like we used to,” he added.
“I’ll give you an example: when do you see kids playing in a field any more with two jumpers down and playing with a football? You never see it.
“They are at home with computers, iPods, iPhones, g-pods or whatever they call them, and the kids don’t play anymore.
“That, to me, is one of the reasons as well. There are a whole load of issues, but we are certainly not producing footballers like we used to.”
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I think we need to let kids mature from their raw talent to a talented flair abundent adult. we knock all natural ability out of our youngsters so they grow up predictable and unsure of what they are to do as their confidence is made worse under the current type of development that we grind in to them over the years. if we were lucky enough to have a young Zidane playing at youth level we would sign him to a big club just to rot in the reserves until he played the way they wanted him to, theo wallcot is a prime example. we ignore him in our world cup team yet spain would have loved to have him in theirs.