Saint Martini Posted 30 July, 2009 Share Posted 30 July, 2009 Is in all likelihood moving to FC Groningen in the Dutch Premier Division in the summer. Another one of those former Southampton youngsters that would have come in quite handy in the last few/coming years.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_stevo Posted 30 July, 2009 Share Posted 30 July, 2009 (edited) If only we had signed Drogba, Adebayor and Rosicky Edited 30 July, 2009 by saint_stevo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team-saint Posted 30 July, 2009 Share Posted 30 July, 2009 congratulations on starting the monthly Tim Sparv thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 31 July, 2009 Share Posted 31 July, 2009 The new owner is inheriting the last remnants of the old policy of the last incumbents, who paid more attention to the academy, at the expense of the first team. The very group of players that would have made everything else possible. I hope the new owner gets his priorities in proper order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 31 July, 2009 Share Posted 31 July, 2009 Is in all likelihood moving to FC Groningen in the Dutch Premier Division in the summer. Another one of those former Southampton youngsters that would have come in quite handy in the last few/coming years.:cool: He's put in some useful performances for Halmstad in the Swedish Prem. -which in all fairness is barely good CCC standard and now has moved to Holland - where the standard is only a little better. Still, the problem is - what do you do with " useful " Academy lads when they come to the end of their time ? In reality if they haven't made a breakthrough to the first team -ala Walcott, Bale, Surman, Lallana...by then they have little future and it costs money to keep them ALL! Tim Sparv was just " useful " ...but would not have been able to command a first team place at age 19, and likely didn't want to wait until someone left , or retired in order to get his team place. Good luck to him ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 31 July, 2009 Share Posted 31 July, 2009 He's put in some useful performances for Halmstad in the Swedish Prem. -which in all fairness is barely good CCC standard and now has moved to Holland - where the standard is only a little better. Still, the problem is - what do you do with " useful " Academy lads when they come to the end of their time ? In reality if they haven't made a breakthrough to the first team -ala Walcott, Bale, Surman, Lallana...by then they have little future and it costs money to keep them ALL! Tim Sparv was just " useful " ...but would not have been able to command a first team place at age 19, and likely didn't want to wait until someone left , or retired in order to get his team place. Good luck to him ! I didn't rate him at the time, so I and the Saints management perhaps got that wrong, but what we could have done was shown more patience and foresight and signed him and loaned him out. The problem these days is young players want a big contract and you can't offer that to someone that is not going to be in the first team for some time. I guess the financial model of the club would need to be readjusted to spend more on youth development, and by that I mean finding the money to put young players on three, four and five year contracts. A gamble, but then so is signing a player for a million or more and then him not working out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 31 July, 2009 Share Posted 31 July, 2009 If only we had signed Drogba, Adebayor and Rosicky Forlan, Malbranque Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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