It didn’t cost £200m to find Foden or Rashford. The lads were out there all along. It needed someone to pick them out and a team of coaches to develop the raw talent.
The Manchester/Merseyside conurbation is a big one though, much bigger than Scunny’s sphere of influence so perhaps it’s not surprising really.
Bigger clubs attract better coaches (possibly because they can pay higher wages). Scunthorpe has perennially opted for ex-players. I suspect most lower league clubs do likewise.
Hence stagnation. No fresh approach or ideas. And that’s what we’re experiencing now, and have been for years.
We have been plodding along making no progress at all. And that’s the case from the academies through to the first team, via the coaching staff.
We’ll get nowhere without a complete clear-out, starting with the owner. But we all know how likely that is!
