HAHAHA, Hiring two Scottish guys will improve TFC Academy
, man you made my day with this statement.
Only way to improve academy development is to make TFC academy separate entity from 1st team turmoil and politics that we had with 1st team coaching stuff since day one,that slowed down processes of proper development. Focus for academy should be players development,not winning leagues.
Hire coaches outside of province,coaches without agendas and favoritism to their former clubs and rep teams,coaches with understanding that soccer is not boot the ball and chase it down,something you can see often if you watch Senior Academy playing in League 1,whose coach is Neely,go figure.
Stick with program,Sigma has decent success because they are running same strategy and development since day one, all teams are playing same system.Every January during winter break ,all Sigma coaches are in Europe for two weeks to learn and upgrade their knowledge,pick up new things in soccer development,etc
TFC USL team is made of TFC Academy players who are at US Colleges and back to TO for summer break,and few senior academy players,don't see how much that will help for development,when senior academy player sits on the bench ,while college players are playing.
When it comes to recruitment of younger ages,that's not easy,this is not an exact science and mistakes can be made,that's normal.
Where I see a big problem is, when TFC offers senior Academy players academy contracts only if those players sign with soccer agent that works with TFC,or better to say,an agent who has most of TFC players under his agency,and if you denied to sign with him,you are out of TFC future plans. I know this first hand,boy who already has agent and wanted to sign with TFC, but not with that agency,went from team cap. to bench and being played out of his position,game after game. I'm sure first chance to jump oversees,this player is gone, like many other mentioned in previous posts.