Glenn Hoddle Quotes

There is a specific mentality that is put into the young players at Barcelona, and from nine or 10 years old, you have to make good seasons because, if not, you are out.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

West Ham have a great academy.

It's very important that Manchester United have four or five young players every year from the youth system.

From United's point of view, it is always difficult to tell just when a young footballer is going to mature into a first-class professional ready to play at the highest level, but the story of how Pogba slipped away from United has more than one strand to it.

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

It's every manager's dream, I suppose, to build a team by coaching young players of 15 to 17. That's why I started a youth scheme.

I want to help grow the game in India and encourage young kids to play football.

Arsenal have a history of bringing through youngsters, giving them opportunities, and turning them into world-class players.

Little details about young footballers catch your eye when you have been around a big club for a long time. At first, it can be minor things, like the way certain young players stand out from the group when the academy lads cross paths with the senior team on their way to training in the morning.

The quality of our academy system is very high, as good as anything in the world. Around the country, lots of people in youth development are keen to get together and find a solution to that 17-to-21 age bracket and how we get those players playing.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

Obviously, everyone looks at whether we bring young footballers into the first team, that's one of the goals. But I wouldn't discard someone who is successful in life, that's big. The hall of fame in the academy should be a wide variety of stories.

There are quite a lot of young players around now with undoubted talent who get stuck in academies at big clubs.

Chelsea is a fantastic place for young kids. They develop you, work you hard, and you can see they have top-class talent all around the world.

I remember when I was training with St Mirren as a young boy Ralston was my Hampden and my Wembley.

Manchester City has a really good academy, and they're winning titles at all ages.

I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.

Dele Alli is probably the perfect example. He played loads of games for MK Dons at a young age. He got a move and kicked on from there because he had that experience behind him.

I learned so much during my time at United. Sharing a dressing room with Paul Scholes, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Ryan Giggs at such a young age was an amazing experience. I didn't play as much as I would have liked, but it was a master's degree in development both as a player and a person.

Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.

I was a promising keeper as a kid and, at 15 and 16, was on the books of Crewe Alexandra.

My PE teacher used to scout for Sporting and, when I was nine, he recommended me for a trial. From there, I just went up through the age groups and was always kept on while others were dropping out.

I got my first taste of real professional football on loan at Northampton. I was 18 at the time, and I played only nine games, but it was a massive opportunity for me.