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When I used to play cricket if a really poor bowler was on there was an art to milking them just enough but not too much so that the captain took him off. Other teams in the PL need to think about that analogy at the moment as otherwise Arsenal are going to get rid of Wenger.
 

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Not sure I'd include Utd as not having a pathway. Don't they have some ridiculous stat that there has been a player that has come through their academy in every match day squad since 1950ish?


Interested to hear that. I can't think of any players that have come through their ranks in the last 10 years. Clearly for that stat to be true there must be some although to be fair Ryan Giggs playing for 20 odd yrs covers a big stint there.
 
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Interested to hear that. I can't think of any players that have come through their ranks in the last 10 years. Clearly for that stat to be true there must be some although to be fair Ryan Giggs playing for 20 odd yrs covers a big stint there.

Up to 2012 Manchester United have had a graduate from their youth system in every single match day squad since October 30, 1937. That’s 75 years, or 3,623 consecutive games.

And, if that wasn’t impressive enough, up until 2011 there was a player from the youth system in every single starting XI for 73 years. However, on May 1, 2011 John O'Shea started the game on the bench against Arsenal.

Pogba was a Utd Academy player 😂😂😂
 
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