Yeah for me personally if there's any lessons learned about our academy record and how some of our exports seem to find the next step when they change scenery with a new coach, I almost think most of our academy lads need to come back and be given a full year under herdmans coaching setup/systems and see if they can free their minds a little bit.
Definitely not what you are saying, more just adding to the point - but for example lol i feel like franklin is one of those type of wide players that would get shipped to nashville or St Louis and become an absolute stud or very consistent mls starter lol out wide. Hopefully the academy grads and younger guys get a year under the Herdman system, and if they aren't cut out for it - they get humbled as bench depth and eventually moved on. Maybe herdman with an eye on proper development can put them on a progression plan or set smaller benchmarks/milestones to achieve to gain confidence and mls calibre skills.