Which is a very valid point too.
I think that allowing naturally talented youngsters to go out and express themselves freely on the pitch when they are kids is paramount to their development as players....
And development coaching should never be about get bogged down in a particular way or systematic approaches.
Players will always differ in terms of which type of coaching practices are most suitable to their development of course, but in think that coaches who embrace variety are going to be more successful.
Another high profile coach Brendan Rodgers once said as a youth coach at Chelsea he had done every certification under the sun.
A week working with the first team under Jose Mourinho was completely different to what he'd done on courses and likened it to attending a masters degree in football at Harvard. He said it taught him more about the game than all the courses he'd done put together.
I tink than in football, in football coaching, variety is the spice of life!!
very valid across the board for decades.........
Mind you it always takes one to set the new course the rest end up following and some fine tune on the way.
Its not all about the stats/vids but also how you vision X player can contribute/impact not as per the curriculums.
I'm afraid alot of outliers have had their rope pulled in today BUT we do see a outlier here and there.
In saying that your mention of ol whiskey nose, there is no doubt he had a successful career, I think he had 3 pieces of the puzzle mind you.
1. Timing, the class of 92, what coach wouldn't luv having a core at his disposal to work with as such.
2. Man management.
3. Budgets/$$$'s
Whereas I rate one like Cruyff ahead of Fergie as a innovator and game changer/winner far more, look what followed after Cruyff's injection in the game and coachs that followed to this day - now thats a Legacy of success that is hard to replicate.
The Chosen one was damn brilliant as Rogers mentions but why after all the success did he not learn to change/adapt his tack after all the new intel that came to be during his tenures later in his career.
Why did Ancelotti keep delivering only up until last season @ 66yrs young compared to the Chosen One.
Like players not all coachs young to old are the same - correct variety lets hope Ai doesn't take over otherwise the game becomes a E.