Telegraph Article

[Wiggles31]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/10439633/Southampton-revival-puts-England-on-path-to-success.html

 

Not sure if this has been posted. A good read about our youth infrastructure. Hopefully England will implement a similar system.

 

I can't think of a better run club than ours right now.

[Whitey Grandad]

Nice read, thanks.

[Wrensup]

I don't want our secrets being given away

[BlakeySFC]

#CircleJerk

[Barry the Badger]

I don't want our secrets being given away

 

The secrets are nothing without the right people

[SimplyRed&White]

Vision, commitment, application, achievement = success

[Bucks Saint]

What secrets? We invest in the youth teams and the training facility, and put a lot of effort into getting it right? Dont think Wikileaks will be getting too excited yet

[Tony F]

I detect that the ethos of the club, as we now see being firmly developed with commitment of club money and demonstrated as successful (so far), has 100% buy-in from senior players who are excited to be part of it.

 

This will, in my view, be a compelling reason for them not to jump ship when the so-called glamour clubs come knocking at doors of our star players in the coming transfer windows.

 

Watch this space?

[Minty]

Another thought - by having such a good training and development set-up, we also put ourselves in a strong position when it comes to recruiting coaching staff, or even retaining retiring players who want to go on to coach. Young players want to be part of the Academy, but potentially so will coaches, new and experienced, who want to work at the best places.

[St Louis]

Great read, thanks!

 

Everything seems to be going so well at the moment, long may this continue.

 

Jeremy Wilson (the journalist of this article and ex-echo) is a Saints fan too, so hopefully the positive Saints coverage will continue