Quote Originally Posted by ollie the optimist View Post
out of the current lot, wilshere, ramsey, jenkinson, ox, gibbs just keep on improving. while we have had a young side, the current youngsters are getting better and are first team players, rather then kids in the first team if that make sense. we have some new youngsters like akpom, zelalem, eisfield who might be the next big thing, but with fuck all else to choose from given we have not got decent squad depth, they are likely to play a lot more then they should be next season, with too much pressure on them
Wilshere is injury prone at the moment though, Ramsey there are questions marks over his quality, Jenkinson is a decent player, Ox Chamberlain stagnated last season and Gibbs well he's always injured, it would be easier to count the games he has played than the games he's missed.

I think younger players are more prone to confidence dips which can really affect their progress and that's why having more experienced players around them and being able to take them out of the line of fire when playing poorly helps. We just don't have the players though and as you said they'll end up playing a lot more than they should, perhaps burning them out.

I really think we make it hard for ourselves.