...all he would have to do is pick up the phone and say have a look at this lad for me - or arrange a couple of friendlies he will get kids placed straight in with trials and contracts...
This is what all kids are falling for as well, a line, 'you'll make it if you come to us lad, I know scouts come to watch us every week'
Well that's simply not the case. If a player is good enough, he will make it.
I had a lad ready to join us in the summer until his old club's chairman fed him a similar line, when he gets a bit bigger NUFC are going to sign him on.
I've had players taken to academies from my club, in fact most of the u15s academy team is made up of random clubs, not 'bigger' clubs with scout contacts etc.
This season I'll come up against one team with an NUFC and Liverpool scout for managers, and another with a Sunderland coach training them. The NUFC academy director is the chairman of another team, and a 4th team has direct links with NUFC. Does this give their kids a better chance of making it than mine?
NO
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