‘Why is scoring goals in League One worth five or six times doing it in the Premiership?’ – interview with Hibs sporting director Graeme Mathie
https://theathletic.com/2712927/2021/07 ... me-mathie/
“If you’re only ever offering one or two years, it becomes difficult to generate a value. If you bring in a young player, it shows a real commitment and at times we have incentivised it so the contract increases over time. It gives us time to develop them too, and we think our sports science and medical departments are up there with the best in the country. The way they can
physically develop players and keep them on the pitch week after week is incredible.
<>
“England produced a player book, so for a geeky guy like me, I love it. It was about looking at where the hotbeds have been and why that is. But they found that most of their centre-backs hadn’t been capped below under-19 level. They were picking the players at the top teams who weren’t doing a lot of defending.
“I spoke to Craig Mulholland (Rangers’ head of academy) about this and I mentioned it. He said, ‘The next time we play you and it’s three 30-minute periods, why don’t you do us a favour and play direct and throw balls into the box and make our defenders defend? Then, in the second period, you pick a theme — press us high up, so we can play out through pressure; and then we’ll both play our style the last 30.”
Prireikė kiek suprasti ką jis norėjo pasakyti, bet patinka man toks otb požiūris į jaunimo futbolą. Viena komanda mokosi pulti, kita gintis varžybų formate, o rezultatas nėra tiek svarbus kiek atidirbti techniką tame amžiuje.
