It always makes me laugh when some say “why did we let him go?” when most of these players have been subjected to dogs abuse at games and on social media by a certain section of fans.
If you ridicule young players either at games or on social media don’t expect their confidence to be sky high to perform how you wish.
Any answers on the ‘reasons to be optimistic’ issue yet? If you keep avoiding this I’ll start to think you don’t have any!