The Leeds United Academy 2017 Reboot

The already highly rated Leeds United Academy is being set up now to provide for the long-term future of the club... Radz and Orta have been very clear that they want the Academy to become the heartbeat of the club, and as such it has been given a reboot ... the appointments that have been made within the Academy show just how serious they are about this, and now the signings they are making to beef up the talent speaks volumes

There is a clear vision in place for the Academy, and the plan is being implemented with the now customary professionalism expected from the leadership team at Elland Road

The thing about signing these young talents from Europe is not just about them progressing through to the seniors, but also what they bring to the Academy as a whole ... suddenly the local lads are training side by with a lad straight out of Barcelona's Academy and they are exposed to his Barcelona work ethic and skills ... they start to find that they have to raise their game and graft hard to improve, and the overall standard within the Academy goes up

It creates an atmosphere of excitement that there are quality kids from Madrid and Barcelona coming in, and it becomes a real ambition to cut it in the Leeds Academy ... now the club's becomes Academy the place to be for an aspiring young footballer ... make it here, learn here, and your future in football looks very bright ... chances are you will get to wear the famous White shirt, and there will also be a stack of clubs willing to sign you just because you're a Leeds United Academy graduate

Radz, as a leader, knows what he is doing ... I have learnt in business and sport that I cannot motivate you ... I can incite you, for example, with a passionate half-time team talk that gets you flying for the first five minutes of the second half, but once that "rah-rah" wears off it's up to you to stay motivated ... Radz understands this, and he has his plan in place to lift the club up out of the doldrums

Radz and his leadership team are creating an environment at Leeds United that breeds positivity ... they are "creating a motivating climate", i.e. a workplace where people feel motivated to do their very best every day ... this is vital for any long-term success ... it is easy to spot the things Radz has done so far to create a professional, positive environment at Elland Road for the staff and the supporters

LEADERSHIP TEAM
Gone is the awful, unprofessional "leadership" of Cellino, "ably" supported by his "Director" sons ... now Leeds have a very capable and professional leadership team with a clear vision and strategy ... things are getting done, finally

SQUAD
Players are being signed for the long-term, to help the club progress ... the quality of the squad is being improved, and there is a clear desire for success on the pitch ... competition for places is seen as a good thing rather than having a small squad to keep costs down ... we Leeds supporters know all too well how easy it is for a thin squad to run out of puff at the business end of a promotion campaign

ACADEMY
The investment in talent from Europe is shrewd, as it raises the standards within the Academy whilst also raising the club's profile with young players ... the club can only benefit from this, and go from strength to strength ... Redders would definitely feel out of place in this brave new Leeds Academy

THE CLUB
There are improvements being made in and around Elland Road, and it would be a serious misjudgement to see these as purely cosmetic ... Radz is giving us a club to be proud of, an environment we can enter feeling positive and excited

He wants us to be rolling over the top of Beeston hill and seeing the magnificent Elland Road looking like a proper footballing cathedral ... he wants us to be buzzing as we walk up to the best stadium in the world, ready to roar the lads on to another win ... he understands that the supporters are the key to this club, always have been and always will be, and that their passion and desire flows onto the pitch and into the players

This reboot of Leeds United is no accident, it has it's roots in "that" conversation Radz had with Kenny Dalglish about investing in an English football club ... the planning started the day Radz met Cellino for the first time to discuss buying him out ... over the past year Radz had a good look at what needed to be done to improve Leeds United, and who the people were he would need by his side to help him make it happen

Most importantly, Radz clearly understood the need for a strong, professional Academy that is forward thinking and that delivers quality for the seniors ... this new Leeds United is intoxicating, and Radz and his staff will soon realise just how big this stirring giant really is




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love your passion Billy

 

Would have some currency if he didn't post the same over positive drivel every year.
Blind faith is delusional..
One year he will be right.. I just hope I live long enough to congratulate him on his foresight...
It wont be this year and it wont be under this owner using current methods that's a certainty.

 

He is doing things to the best of his knowledge (Rad) he will learn the championship (English) way will take time (I know you don't have much) this season will be very interesting from a Leeds perspective, but its going to be very hit and miss lots of ups and downs same for us

 

Billy this is the first time in a dozen years we start to see the potential growing again. Belief is coming back again. We were both around when Wilkinson had a plan & brought Paul Hart in to make it happen. He brought in coaches who knew the local schools & boys clubs. These scouts found the best and brightest and through coaching brought them on. The next stage was to develop TA into a boarding school where education was as important as footy, these lucky kids had a bed, a room, food, had their washing done, given discipline and taught how to act and behave. Schooling, medical center where everything was done for these kids. Before too long we had the best academy in the UK and had a production line of kids who became household names, and Internationals. Bates killed it, sold it, mothballed it .... Today Radz knows it will take too long to recreate that so as he wants to rebuild he has started by culling kids who will not make it but back-filling with better kids and some of these are from overseas. This is a shortcut to where he wants to be once the new Academy is built.

Most of us will wish Radz luck as we again become a place of excellence again. Besides bringing on stars of the future we also sell talent as a new revenue stream. Not like under Bates where we charged parents to coach their kids, so only got kids whos parents couldnt get them to Man City or afford to be coached

 

Think Leeds are missing a trick here - Instead of trying to entice the local talent back that have left in their droves to go to academies in Manchester and other Prem teams, you seem to be recruiting the players deemed not good enough for Spanish academies - doesn't make sense!!

 

When foreign players first came over in the late 70's people said then it would enhance the game playing alongside top talent and raise the game of homegrown British players, all it did was virtually kill off Scotish football and change the foundations of English football, in the premiership now a 'local lad' is someone who is English in a team full of foreigners.
So in my view flooding our Academys with loads of foreign kids is yet another kick in the bollocks for aspiring young British kids.

 

Ringo theres tons and tons of young local talent out there to be sought absolutely no need to look abroad

 

Who was your last home grown youth player to play in a top half prem team.So lots of talent out there but you have not had one top player in what 20-30 years.

 

Who was your last home grown youth player to play in a top half prem team.So lots of talent out there but you have not had one top player in what 20-30 years.

 

Who's going to sign for millwall when you can join Dartford City

 

One year you will be wrong

This year

 

Half right, you'll just have downs

 

living in the past again what part of "to be sought" is it you are struggling with ?

 

looking down for you lot

 

but you said there are lots and lots,why have you not found just 1 in 30 years should your coaching staff go specsavers

 

how many Spanish kids have you brought through your ranks that have made it into any football club in Britain in the last 50 million years ?

 

50 million years just how old are you ?

 

I know you live in the past but wasn't sure how far back you went

 

And they are really getting prepared for the downs as well, getting all those League 1 players in place so they have a semi decent team ready for their return to League 1, their true spitual home.