Roberto Manchini has told Joe Hart there is a big chance that he will be playing second fiddle to Shay Given all season.
As we all know, Hart was exceptional for Birmingham last season, as we are repeatedly reminded, and he is likely to be England’s number 1 for the next decade or so. The thing that gets to me is that the future of English football, not just Hart but players like Mancienne, Wilshire, Cleverly, Wellbeck, Rose and so on, are all having to go out loan (If their clubs actually let them) to get first team football at smaller clubs, instead of mixing them with the first team at their parent clubs for them to gel into a squad.
I understand that managers only concentrate on their clubs and not of the players’ international duties, but if something doesn’t change soon, we will be at the same standard of teams like Romainia.
You can also talk about the 25man rule but thats a completly different topic, but my main point is that managers such as Manchini, Wenger etc should either play these players and mould them into their squad or for the sake of the players future, or sell them so they can play first team football for another club instead of being sent on loan or sitting on the bench. The only reason like i say i doubt this will happen as the manager will do whats best for the club, and the club only.
A quick example of this is Spain roughly 8 years ago when they brought all their players through such as Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta, Cassilas etc, at the time they were good players but not World Class, yet they all played for the first team at Barcelona and Madrid. 8 years ago they were a decent side, now they’ve got the experience of playing first team football for a big club for all those years, they are now world beaters.
Thanks to our guest author CovWolf from BBC 606
