Troy Parrott

Fozz wrote: Joins Scully (doing very well) and Cassidy (not doing well) in L1. One wonders if he gets a few goals, will he be in the senior squad in March and if so, why would he be in ahead of Scully? I'm not advocating either of them get in.  Both U21s for me for now.

Ecumenical Matter wrote: Bit of a reality check.  League 1? He’s young so plenty of time but zero progress over the last year.

I dont care where he goes as long as he starts scoring. If he gets 1 goal he should settle down a bit. Pressure might ease. 

Nialler wrote: I don't understand why he wouldn't go somewhere that suits his style of play. He is clearly being badly handled. I am not fussed about league one but surely you find a club in the first place that play football and not Milwall. Ipswich are a league one Milwall.  If I was his agent I would have looked at Haaland and how he went from strength to strength. A continental club that plays football is way better where he can build.

options limited I’d say. Teams who were interested at the start of the season are no longer for various reasons... €, things are ok for them so don’t need another forward, he didn’t do so well at Millwall - agree it seems he’s not been advised very well but I’d say more club that agent.

I thought all a good promising young player had to do was go out on loan and their career would automatically take off, just from reading Terri's posts on Phil Foden over the last 3 years. 

From the little i saw of him for Millwall he didn't look ready to go on loan to a championship team.  He was a boy trying to play mans football.  He had no idea how to deal with physical center half's, particularly from long balls, which there were plenty of.  Still might work to develop him, and there is no big issue in not being ready for it at 18, but he may have been better staying at Spurs and getting minutes in the cup competitions and playing in the underage games for another season. There's plenty of examples of players breaking through at big teams without going through the loan system, Foden mentioned above, McTominay another who springs to mind, TAA at Liverpool.  I'm not sure a League 1 loan is going to do any favours but he seems set on the loan route.

Nialler wrote: GaretFarellysNutSack wrote: Haaland ffs. He's probably the most exciting player since Ronaldo. Troy doesn't seem to be doing much yet, but then most strikers don't really kick off properly till they're 23 or so, with the odd exception here and there like Rooney or Michael Owen.  I would have thought he might shine even in a crap team, he barely seemed to be trying half the time for Millwall in the games I watched.  I know. My point wasn't they are the same player for god sake. Look into how he was handled by his dad. The path he took. He could have gone to big clubs early but he went to smaller clubs thtat are well coached and run and play very good football that will suit him. Troy is not a player suited to Championship and League one batter ball. It is alien football to him. he has barely had a chance created for him, they play sh*t football. No wonder he looks sh*t. Go back and watch his at 17 during the summer against top defenders. He is a far better player then. He should sack his agent immediately and get someone who knows what they are doing. Prob some Irish agent who has friends at Milwall and Ipswich. I would e shocked if that was not the case.

Edited by EdisonCavani - 02 Feb 2021 at 12:58pm

My point is, if Foden had gone out on loan 2 years ago to a championship or L1 club, I'm not sure he would be a better player than what he currently is for having stayed in the City first team squad, learning off the likes of Silva and De Bruyne and being blooded gradually into top level football and picking up a sporadic 100 appearances. 

Edited by Roberto Baggio - 02 Feb 2021 at 3:02pm

kevin100 wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: My point is, if Foden had gone out on loan 2 years ago to a championship or L1 club, I'm not sure he would be a better player than what he currently is for having stayed in the City first team squad, learning off the likes of Silva and De Bruyne and being blooded gradually into top level football and picking up a sporadic 100 appearances.  Every player is different though, and if Troy Parrott had stayed at Spurs for the next two or three years i'd be pretty sure he wouldn't have 100 appearances (of any sort)  Lets not derail the thread though, thats just my opinion    What your saying makes sense but would Parrott have gotten 15-20 matches at Spurs? Highly unlikely.  I’d actually argue Kelleher is better off staying at Liverpool next year then going on loan to a Championship team as he will find himself potentially playing 10-15 games as Liverpool’s 2nd choice. Even more as Alisson has shown the tendency to pick up niggles.