[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Alf

It doesn't matter who is the manager, the system of English football is all wrong.

Our future talents will get loaned out to learn their trade in a lower standard of football, when they should be learning their trade at the top level.

Instead of loaning players out, they should bring back a reserves league, which keeps the future talents at the top clubs, and gives them a pathway into first team football at the top level.

Think this is why they've introduced the U23s to the EFL Cup, but I agree that more needs to be done than this. The Reserves leagues in Spain, France and Germany seem to be coveted a lot more than it is here, too, and there's of course the media problem (have to wonder how possible it is to build a team and morale when every rag is telling everyone how awful we are, how overpaid they are, how much of a shagger they are, etc.)