The thing is, with so many of our established "superstars" playing so awful, and with the allowance of 5 subs out of 9 in every game, we could have integrated so many of these talented youngsters - especially when they had no development games. But no, we usually played the entire match utilising only 2 or 3 subs and many of these were like for like replacements of older players in the 87th minute!
He then finally caved in to pressure to play a few of these youngsters in the dead rubber against Lille almost as if to show us these untried players weren't good enough - but they did so well he was forced to give some another chance (not all - some were returned to purgatory).
Then after the Dubai debacle we are forced to field a nearly entire team of newbies, most of whom hadn't kicked a ball in a competitive match in 10 months! Not surprisingly many of them struggled coming in from the cold against hardened experienced opponents and it looks like many of them have now unfairly written off.
I have been pleading since the summer to give Connell, Soro, Turnbull, Okoflex, Dembele, Welsh, Afolabi & Henderson some game time in a proper managed manner so they get experience while surrounded by older heads. This helps them develop, keeps them hungry and makes them feel included.
Now most of them feel unwanted and totally fecked off and just want to leave, and then they are blamed as some unnamed source in our club whispers to churnalists that they have an "attitude". So would I have an attitude if I trained day in, day out for the last year just to watch Elyounoussi come on in the last couple of minutes of a game yet again!