I have been wondering is youth the way forward for Leeds United if they are to get back to the English Premier League?
I feel if we manage to keep hold of Sam Byram, Alex Mowatt, Lewis Cook, Charlie Taylor, Kalvin Phillips, Chris Dawson etc then Leeds will have a big chance of getting back to the top flight of English football.
Since Neil Redfearn was appointed as head coach by the Elland Road club players like Mowatt, Taylor, Cook and most recently Phillips have been in and around the first team squad on match days for the clubs Sky Bet Championship fixtures in the past few months/weeks.
Byram, Cook, Mowatt and Taylor have all started virtually every game since the end of the January transfer window and it seems if Leeds United are going to move forward and gain promotion from the Sky Bet Championship we will need to keep all our young players in the squad for next season and add more Championship quality to the squad and help us mount a promotion push.
I asked the question on facebook here is what a few people said:
Andy Brown said: "I believe it is but any successful side needs an experienced back bone too. i-e Keeper, Central defender and cunning Striker up front... Put the youth around that and you should have a good football team...."
Phil Rourke said: "Yeah of course, I've been saying it for years now the only problem is we don't hang on to them."
Liverpool fan Liam Angell said: "Youth is always the way forward, eventually you have to trust the next generation as the youth are the future and Leeds need to build solid foundations rather than waiting for some rich benefactor to come in and save them."
Andrew Clarke said: "Yeah defo, always believed In youth and Lucky we have always had a gud un."
Peter Umpleby said: "I'm glad they have been given a chance this season, mowatt and cook are outstanding so far and taylor is holding his own, i just hope we can keep hold of them in the closed season."
Anne Taylor said: "We have quite a few younger players who have proven to be invaluable in the first team & several more who are on the fringes. We had this in the early 90's & with the right mix of experienced players they went on to help us to win the league & a good few of them went on to have good careers. I think that with the same mix of experience & youth it can be the way forward. Redfern knows these young guns & he will utilise them wisely."
Karl Morgan said: "I think that killock will turn out to be a good player for us, would love to see adryan put some good form in too."
A few thing youth is the way forward but we need too keep hold of the young players such as Byram, Mowatt, Cook, Taylor, Killock, Phillips, Dawson etc.
