Chapter 137: Academy Echelon

After the most important pre-season meeting of the three giants, everyone began to do their jobs.

Soriano continues to do his part, but he also needs to contact the warm-up opponents for the team; Loew has put all his energy into training for the first team, and this season's goals have not been easy to achieve, and even the things that should have been done by himself to gather important information about the opponents have been completely left to his assistants.

As for David, well, continue to be unprofessional.

Of course, the so-called lack of business is just in the opinion of Soriano and Loew, and David, the president of the club, should focus more on the management of the club, rather than squatting in the academy every day with a group of little boys, even if it is the future of Notts County, but it is not the present.

That's right, in recent times, David has completely transformed into a nanny in the Notts County Academy, and every day is revolving around these little kids in the eyes of others, but in his heart, this is the job that makes him the happiest from the bottom of his heart, because he just likes to watch the little kids who drag their noses and even wear open crotch pants gradually grow into big stars, and this pride is incomparable.

Look, this is the superstar we have produced!

Unlike many lower-level clubs that don't pay attention to youth training, David completely put the academy on the same level as the first team, which is something that many giants can't do.

David and Notts County's new academy director Rick Link have had a lot of red-faced quarrels over the planning and construction of the academy, although he is far less professional than the other party in this regard, but he has superhuman sunshine after all.

After repeated research, coupled with references to the mature youth training systems of other clubs, the Academy of Notts County has set up 8 echelons, each echelon is roughly 25-30 young players.

The U23 youth team is actually a reserve team in the usual sense.

If a player reaches the age of 23 and still can't find a place in the first team, then that player has little future at the club and the best way to do that is to look for opportunities at other clubs or even lower leagues.

Originally, David did not plan to set up a reserve team, but this is the FA's rules and requirements, so David also had to keep the reserve team, of course, this is certainly the least valued group of players in Notts County, such as some of the team's main players before last season, if they don't find a suitable home, they can only play in the reserve league now.

At the same time, the reserves will also be a transitional place before the return of players who have been battered by injuries to the first team, and it will not be useless.

Next up is the Under-19s, which is the most important stage before entering the senior squad.

However, although Notts County has a youth team at this stage, they do not have a single player of the right age.

If you turn your attention to the first team, then many people will find that there are many players of this age group in the first team of Notts County.

Sneijder, Mascherano, Mertesacker, Ribery, Iniesta, Westermann, Sania, Bynes ...... almost half of the country.

The U17 youth team, this age group can be said to be the least number of future stars, because in the entire team, only Gary Cahill, Ramos, Babel, Suarez, Joe Hart, these five players are hand-picked by David, and the other players are all ordinary players left after the open trial of the academy, maybe there is a high chance of entering the sequence of professional players in the future, but at present, it seems that there is probably no one who may really stay in Notts County.

The U16 youth team, although there are still not many players handpicked by David, the quality is quite high.

Messi, Mesut Ozil, Juan Mata, Xavi Martinez, Lewandowski, Hamsik, Lallana, almost every one could become a top superstar.

In the future, when this group of players mature enough to enter the first team, I am afraid that it will set off a storm of youth in Notts County that is not inferior to the current one.

The U15 youth team, originally Rick Link felt that there was no need to set up an echelon, but at David's insistence, it was still established.

Although the Notts County Academy has the best hardware conditions, there is still a certain gap in operation compared to the maturity of many famous youth academies, but the heart of Notts County will not stop, so David operates according to the most mature experience.

In the Under-15 youth team, there is also no shortage of future first-class superstars, such as Sturridge, Theo Walcott, Bale, Smalling, Reus, Azpilicueta, Alba, Gibbs, Carroll, and there may not be top superstars, but they are definitely mainstays.

The U13 youth team, in addition to the five young players brought by David, such as Ramsey, Welbeck, Henderson, De Gea and Griezmann, actually attracted two players whose names David had heard of in the future - Kyle Walker and Danny Rosk.

In fact, the Under-13s don't train professionally all day, they need to go to school for cultural learning, and football training takes up almost all of their time outside of their studies.

David is already thinking about this by setting up a school next to the Notts County Academy, merging the primary and secondary schools so that the young players in Notts County can attend school nearby.

He doesn't want people to say in the future that the players who come out of the Notts County Academy are simple-minded and well-developed guys.

Down there is the U11 youth team, well, maybe it's more appropriate to call it the children's team, because it's a real kid in it.

De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Wilshere, Phil Jones, Jesse Lingard, Shcherwigze, Morata, Isco, Alaba, Pogba, Verratti, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ross Barkley.

This group of players is the best in the Notts County Academy in terms of quantity and quality, and when this group of players matures in the future, I am afraid it will be easy to dominate world football.

Of course, there are the lower divisions of the youth team, with Notts County currently only having an Under-9.

Among them, there are several players such as Anthony Martial, Sterling, Stones, Luke Shaw, Chambers, Ali and so on, only they are equivalent to officially entering the echelon, and the other young players are more still playful to train, at this stage, it is really difficult for a child who has just entered primary school to play football wholeheartedly.

David vowed that he would not use his vision of the future to poach people from elsewhere to the Notts County Academy, because his previous work would be enough to make the whole world football worship him in the future.

The development of the Notts County Academy cannot only rely on his vision, with the future cushion of these players, I believe that by that time the Notts County Academy has enough experience to make a player a first-class star.