kamikaze wrote:
qs! wrote:Every club hypes the shit out of their young players though. Look at that Macheda lad, he's crap but he scored an important goal once and the United fans hyped the shit out of him. Its part of the game. Try enjoying it. Its called hope.
i call it stupidity - why would you lie to yourself? i'll stick to getting excited about players i actually think are/will be good or useful.
Some fans like watching reserve football and like to know how the younger players get along. And at no point have the overwhelming majority thought that Bendtner, Vela, Denilson, Wellington and Botelho are going to be the next Messi, Ronaldo or Xavi, just that their potentially good players. [Actually people may have got carried away with Vela - he was talented]
I don't watch reserve football but I like knowing that Afobe and Aneke are players to potentially look out for or that Miyachi is doing well and could go out on loan or that Campbell scored against Spain or that Kyle Bartley seems injury prone. The same was said about Frimpong, Coquelin, Szczesny and even Miquel. Sometimes they break through, sometimes they don't - as long as you're prepared for that, it's all part of the 'fun' as it were. And the reasons why someone like Vela flopped aren't necessarily the reasons Denilson failed or Bendtner didn't make it, they're not one homogeneous group of players.
Ultimately, it's no different to the people who take interest in the likes of Hazard, Goetze, Reus even though they're unlikely to ever join the club. And even if they do, there is no guarantee that they will be 'useful' either.
Moreover, at a club like Arsenal where a 16 year old is a) likely to be good b) likely to find himself in the first team regardless, it makes it even more understandable that people follow youth football. And being excited by anyone that looks a cut above is just the natural extension of that.
