Under-21 Euro 2021 Qualifying

When’s the last time Wales produced a player like Bale? Same as us with Roy Keane players like that you don’t produce once every 30 years they are rare. Elite level players. Even England only produce players like that every now and then like Rooney let’s say. I wouldn’t regard Kane as that good yet. 

What we do need is a Pukki or Mitrovic type goalscorer. Both players have proven themselves to be bottom half PL clubs at best players but goalscoring is still 2nd to none. Healy for the North another lad. Glenn Murray a good English example of the sort of player if Ireland had I think would have scored plenty. 

 

yes.

 

Oddly, Wales seem to produce amazing amounts of world class talent down through the years, Giggs, Rush and Big Nev were all WORLD CLASS. Hughes, Saundres and Speed were top notch also.

When’s the last time Wales produced a player like Bale? Same as us with Roy Keane players like that you don’t produce once every 30 years they are rare. Elite level players. Even England only produce players like that every now and then like Rooney let’s say. I wouldn’t regard Kane as that good yet. 

What we do need is a Pukki or Mitrovic type goalscorer. Both players have proven themselves to be bottom half PL clubs at best players but goalscoring is still 2nd to none. Healy for the North another lad. Glenn Murray a good English example of the sort of player if Ireland had I think would have scored plenty. 

The epl is probably the highest standard of football in the world, I know Spain has Madrid and Barcelona but the strength in depth is not as strong as the epl.

I think connolly, knight, smallbone, molumby, collins, oshea and more besides will establish themselves as regular premier league players.

On one point I do agree is will we get the world class player, the Gareth Bale, Harry Kane types.... 

The last world class player we had was Roy Keane... maybe we're due one soon. 

If you look at it practically of that Toulon tournament crop let’s call them. We have 3 that are regulars/semi regulars in PL squads O’Shea Connolly and Kelleher already. They have established themselves in those squads although Kelleher hasn’t played many games he’s now clear 2nd choice. 

Obafemi broke into the Southampton team didn’t go to plan but was destined for a loan to Swansea before an injury. 

Knight already looks destined for top flight football in the next 18-20 months at least with Collins almost certainly following him in fact I’d be astonished if Collins didn’t follow him. 

That’s 6 players born in 1999,2000,2001 that broke or will potentially break through/play at PL clubs by the age of 21. 

Smallbone I’m almost sure would be firmly a regular in Southampton’s 18 if injury didn’t jinx him also. 

Had we 6 players prior to 2019/2020 that broke through/established themselves in PL 18s let’s say by the age of 21 in the previous decade for context I’m badly struggling to think of 3.

Molumby while he hasn’t yet already looks comfortable in the Championship and I’m confident he will play PL football too and you can throw Idah into this too getting minutes off the bench at Norwich prior to injury and he competing with as good a set of strikers as any club the Championship for one starting spot nearly.

On top of that there is an awful lot of other lads playing in the Championship,League 1, League 2 and Scotland even from this age bracket. McNamara at Millwall a prime example of one flying up the ranks already. Even 3 or 4 of the dozens in this age bracket did like Egan Doherty Robinson Stevens Duffy Randolph lets say and developed into top flight calibre footballers later on in their careers thats better again.

It’s really when you put it in isolation it’s not too shabby at all. If the 2002,2003,2004 generations and so on could start producing close to as much talent as the above then you really are looking at building a decent team in the next 5/6 years.

It will take 4/5 years to really see the benefits of this get but hopefully with time we really will.