Time for the most recent installment of Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham featuring our journalists for Spurs, Rob Guest and Alasdair Gold.
After Liverpool‘s academy-laden team defeated Tottenham in extra time to win the Carabao Cup, there has been discussion about Tottenham‘s youth system and if some players there ought to be given more chances.
Spurs U21s demonstrated their attacking prowess as a development squad on Saturday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Among them is Jamie Donley, who scored five goals in five games for England‘s U19s and provided 17 assists and seven goals in just 19 games for the U21s after starting four times for the first team during the injury crisis earlier this season.
Ange Postecoglou has lamented what he sees as a lack of quality coming through the academy, but some Tottenham fans want to see the 19-year-old given an opportunity to impress ahead of some of his senior team-mates. Donley is no longer included in the 20-man matchday squads now that the first team players have returned. In order to ensure that Postecoglou remembers him and presents him with a challenge and more difficult team selection to make, Donley told football.london over the weekend that he is resolved to be the greatest player in every U21s game.
In the most recent episode of their Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham podcast, our Tottenham reporters Alasdair Gold and Rob Guest talked about the club’s use of academy players under Postecoglou and whether there is actually a problem at the moment or if it is a result of the lack of games Spurs have on their schedule.
They also discussed the next Premier League game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium versus Crystal Palace as well as Ryan Sessegnon‘s hamstring surgery. You may view the show on YouTube by going here, or you can listen to the podcast by clicking this link.
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