In September, exciting Liverpool starlet Joao Carlos Teixeira sealed a three-month loan deal to Brentford, which, on the face of it, seemed like an ideal opportunity to gain some much needed experience. Alas, after only 28 days, the Bees have cut short the loan spell, and sent 20-year Teixeira is back at Anfield. What went wrong?
Brentford reportedly fought off competition from Bologna to sign Teixeira, which means they obviously wanted him. So why cut the deal short after only 28 days?
Explaining the decision to cut short the loan, Mark Warburton, Brentford FC Sporting Director, told the club's official website:
“Such loans are always reliant on specific position availability and of course respective fixtures but unfortunately we were not able to give Joao the opportunity to demonstrate his obvious talent. We wish Joao the best of luck for his future career at Anfield.”
This sounds suspiciously like a flattering euphemism for 'he wasn't good enough'.
* 'Specific position availability'? What nonsense. Why take Teixeira on loan without first knowing that he could be accommodated in the team?
* Loan deals aren't just made blindly - Brentford would've considered their options before agreeing the deal, and if there was no space in Teixeira's position, why waste everybody's time?
* The same applies to Liverpool - why send Teixeira away for a pointless loan if there was no real chance of him playing? The whole point of a loan deal is to gain *playing* experience, is it not?
Given his stature, and recent injury problem, it's probable that Teixeira struggled with the overly physical nature of League One football, and that's certainly understandable.
It can't, however, be good for Teixeira's confidence to have a three month loan spell cancelled after 28 days; let's just hope it doesn't have a negative effect on the youngster's forward progress.
Jaimie Kanwar
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Brentford reportedly fought off competition from Bologna to sign Teixeira, which means they obviously wanted him. So why cut the deal short after only 28 days?
Explaining the decision to cut short the loan, Mark Warburton, Brentford FC Sporting Director, told the club's official website:
“Such loans are always reliant on specific position availability and of course respective fixtures but unfortunately we were not able to give Joao the opportunity to demonstrate his obvious talent. We wish Joao the best of luck for his future career at Anfield.”
This sounds suspiciously like a flattering euphemism for 'he wasn't good enough'.
* 'Specific position availability'? What nonsense. Why take Teixeira on loan without first knowing that he could be accommodated in the team?
* Loan deals aren't just made blindly - Brentford would've considered their options before agreeing the deal, and if there was no space in Teixeira's position, why waste everybody's time?
* The same applies to Liverpool - why send Teixeira away for a pointless loan if there was no real chance of him playing? The whole point of a loan deal is to gain *playing* experience, is it not?
Given his stature, and recent injury problem, it's probable that Teixeira struggled with the overly physical nature of League One football, and that's certainly understandable.
It can't, however, be good for Teixeira's confidence to have a three month loan spell cancelled after 28 days; let's just hope it doesn't have a negative effect on the youngster's forward progress.
Jaimie Kanwar
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Watched him score a good goal for the u21s last night, came on late but his talent was obvious.
ReplyDeleteI imagine he might be back after a neck strain, caused while he spent 28 days with his head upwards looking at the ball being kicked from one goalkeeper to another in Div 1.
I just have one problem with your post. Where you say"The same applies to Liverpool, why send Teixeira away for a pointless loan...". Now how on earth where Liverpool supposed to know that this was going to happen? As you also mentioned, Brentford fought off competition from Bologna, so they must have given Liverpool and the player assurances that he would be played. What happened after that, whether it was a falling out with the coach, who knows. Case in point, Nuri Sahin. Liverpool beat off Arsenal to his signature on loan. I don't think they mentioned that they would be giving him back before the loan was over or neither Real Madrid or the player would have bothered with the move. Brentford either saw something about him that they did not like, or, like a lot of football teams, they did not plan properly until they noticed that they had too many players in that position.
ReplyDeleteThis lad should be in the first team right now - I can only imagine it is in house politics keeping him out of the Liverpool first team squad, players with a fraction of his talent have made the first team.
ReplyDeleteIf Brentford have a better player than Teixiera I will jump in the Mersey and I cant swim, idiots. He need to be given the responsibility to make thigs happen in the fist team like Couthino - He will be talked of as a 20 million player within 12 months - get a grip Liverpool.
ReplyDeletelol, he literally couldnt get his game for Brentford who are 10th in League One. But it must be inhouse politics....
ReplyDeleteok...
or maybe hes just not good enough....honestly every time i read an article about a youth team player they are the next best thing when the reality is most of then cant cut the mustard at the top level...perhaps if we all started being just a bit more realistic they may have more of a chance to develop...i keep reading about this youth team regeneration that rafa started but who has come out of it who is a permanent fixture and we have spent a lot of money
ReplyDeleteMaybe BR thinks Tex will get better experience playing in the BPL U21 league than in semi-pro. Maybe BR thinks he'll be better able to enter the first team as he'll be playing a style that more resembles what BR has the first team doing. Maybe FSG has told BR that he better look for better mid-fielders in his own barn before they spend bazillions on outsiders. BR should take a hard look at Suso. He leads Almeria in assists and has scored once already this year for them.
ReplyDeletesuso is back in jan and alberto and aspas are off on loan ..then in the summer suso is back out on loan and they are coming back
ReplyDeletestop buying foreign youth players give british the chance
ReplyDeleteonly suso has made it
everton have made barkley,rodwell and rooney
why did we not have them
toni silva,dani pacheco,lauri de la valle, kachalink,
nemeth , sama(probablly)
and the list goes on
liverpool are ruining theese guys careers
and you can tell who is a special young talent from an early age like sus
o,ibe ,sterling ,rossiter.
so why waste money
on average young talent
and if we are to go foreign in tehy outh why cant we get teh best like junajak, pogba ,pique like utd do
who re the
scouts fire them
the whole youth academy is a shambles
Bees fan here, watched him in both of the games he played for us, obviously he is a talented player but I felt that he was just muscled out of it nearly everytime he received the ball.
ReplyDeletemore like a boy in a mans game sadly
Well there is always this possibility :-)
ReplyDeleteJohnny Starrs
ReplyDelete"I imagine he might be back after suffering a neck strain, caused while he spent 28 days with his head upwards looking at the ball being kicked from one goalkeeper to another in Div 1."
well it might be lower standard football, but its far from what you quote, plus there is harldy any, Biting (Suarez), Rascist slurs in game (Suarez) and alot less theatrical diving going on........real mans football, not a bunch of kids like teixeira and over paid players falling around every 10 seconds.....
Liverpool are ruining these guys careers? No.not ever and more so they are teaching our U21's abut life skills .. and getting qualifications outside pf football. Only a small percentage of youth players ever make it. I watch all our players U21 18 and the ladies and i think this young man is close to good enough... and the club is good at all levels, perhaps you never watch them play?
ReplyDeleteI always wonder about loan deals and how much discussion goes on between clubs in that regard. It seems sometimes like a team asks and if they are not needed at first team and could do with first team experience it is just agreed to without any real guarantees about playing time, position etc etc. Its annoying.
ReplyDeleteIts wednesday now so tell us tonight's lotto numbers there lad.
ReplyDeleteYou clearly haven't followed our youth set up that closely.. We hadn't produced anyone good since the late 90s. Only after Rafa's overhaul have we even come close to bringing good players in, a process that started with the likes of Kelly. Now we're seeing Sterling, Suso et al coming through.. Who potentially have huge futures.
ReplyDeleteReal men's football, without an ounce of quality.
ReplyDeletescored a cracker last night. Doesn't look like his confidence has been knocked...too many assumptions being made here Jamie La ;-)
ReplyDeleteAdam Forshaw ex Everton
ReplyDeleteWe should now sending our reserve boys to the first team..if they cant perform in big stage, you have to start thinking of selling them off...but not wasting to test them in reserve and sell it to your rivals.
ReplyDeleteNot convinced the story is important enough to be making any sort of splash about it on Liverpool Kop
ReplyDeleteonly kelly is close to liverpool
ReplyDeleteI think the point in the article is that Liverpool wouldn't send a player on loan if they knew they weren't going to play. Meaning that they would normally have some kind of agreement that the player would play, for example, 20 games per season.
ReplyDeleteBut Brentford are saying there wasn't position availability, but they would have already known what positions were available, therefore meaning that excuse is probably a lie, and its more likely that the player was 1, not good enough, or 2, didn't want to play for Brentford when he got there, and had some kind of falling out.
The funniest thing about this comment is "there is hardly any" meaning there could be some. Lol.
ReplyDeleteAlso I believe there was a young fan fined for encouraging fans to sing racist chants in a Cheltenham Town vs Hereford Utd game.
Lets be honest, unfortunately this kind of disgusting behaviour is prevalent in all leagues, its just not as high profile in the lower leagues.
Real mans football pfft.
Jack Wilshere: "We have great characters. You think of Spain and you think technical but you think of England and you think they are brave and they tackle hard. We have to remember that."
ReplyDeleteWell maybe that's the reason why England have not anything since 66!
Should Januzaj play for England?
Wilshere's attitude is the reason England are light years behind the top footballing nations. It's the 21st century, and he still thinks the most important thing is 'being brave and tackling hard'? - The mindset of failure.
ReplyDeleteHe was born and raised in Belgium, why would he not play for Belgium...?
ReplyDeleteI think the media have been pretty stupid over this one. The kid has not come out and said anything about playing for England and if Hodgson is looking for a mid what's wrong with Hendo?
And who, pray tell, should make way for him to play?
ReplyDeleteAnd while we're being realistic, let's accept that Texeira ain't gonna cut it.
ReplyDeleteI think the question is, why would he play for England? You get this more often that players decide to play for the country of their parents, or parents parents, birth rather than the western European country that gave them the opportunities and chances to make something of their lives. Although in this case it's his father that has decided he cannot choose to play for a national side until he's made it as a club player. Still, why would he choose to play for England over the other countries he could play for?
ReplyDeleteEngland is not an option at present until he resides in the country long enough. Don't have a problem with him playing for a country that his parents are from but he has no ties to England.
ReplyDeleteLots of people criticise the England team including JK but I think England is still considered a traditional football powerhouse held in high regard with the likes of Brazil, Germany, Argentina...England has produced fantastic players and has the best domestic league in the world. I'm sure if you're born and raised there you would have a passion for the team, like Wilshere.
Belgium have some fantastic players and I think he will play for them. However a country like Albania surely cannot compare to England.
Are you referring to the technical and modern approaches to football? - As opposed to the traditional English, hard and physical game?
ReplyDeleteI think only English people actually still believe England is a powerhouse in the world of football today. The thing for this kid is that England cannot compare to any of his other choices. If he chooses with his heart, Albania is closer to him than England with Belgium second. If he chooses with his mind, Belgium surely trumps England right now because of the quality of the team, the average young age of the team so long term prospects and the more attractive brand of football that suits him best. I ask why would he choose England because in every way, England would be the second best option, at best.
ReplyDeleteI read that Tex had a bad injury and hasn't come back the same player, lacking a bit of confidence. Any word on this Jamie? Can you check it out?
ReplyDeleteRooney is nearly 28 so its been along time since he came though Everton's academy,Rodwell is decent nothing more ,Barkley is a talent but hasn't proved he can do it consistently yet.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that its not just Liverpool, very few of the top clubs in England produce good young English talent, most of players that come into the top 6 teams from their academy's are foreign players brought to the club after they have shown promise at a young age. Even including the foreign players, not many make it at the clubs when they can go out and buy a ready made player.
Maybe BR thinks that the London clubs should have to do more than take a short ride up the M4 or get off at the Brentford train stop to do a bit of scouting.
ReplyDeleteConfidence blow for texeira. Only a very few make it. Too difficult to predict which young player can actually make top level football. The physicality and the picture of a football game(tactics, positioning, decision making) are very high level. The step is too big. I'm still sceptical about how successful academies can become. More changes are needed to ease the step from youth to 1st team football. The Spanish model should be given a try in the English leagues and the quality of coaching and resources need to improve at grass root. Blaming foreign players is a shallow excuse.
ReplyDeleteFrance team 1998 world cup winners where 99% from ethnic origins, Zidane was north African, Viera Was African... it makes sense if you have a special player you want them in your team, regardless of race or nationality. the british are still stuck in the dark ages, live and let live I say.
ReplyDeletethat's exactly my thoughts. could you imagine the premier league without all the foreign import? disaster....Silva, Yaya, Suarez, Drogba, Mata, Ozil, Cazola, Michu, Girou, Coutinho, PAulinho, and so on... unthinkable...
ReplyDeleteThe most ironic aspect to Wilshere saying it is that hes arguably the most technically gifted Englishman since the likes of Scholes and Gascoigne..
ReplyDeleteViera and Zidane and so many others were all developed in France though. I would wager quite a few of that team were actually born in France anyway. It makes perfect sense that if you move somewhere at a young age, a new country, and that country offers you the freedom and opportunities to make something of yourself, that you feel obliged and attached to that country. Which again supports my point of why would Januzaj in God's name choose to play for England?
ReplyDeleteHe didn't look as if he was struggling for confidence in the 5-0 thrashing of Spurs U21s during the week: he scored with his first touch(es) of the ball and chipped their keeper form inside the penalty area.
ReplyDeleteMark my words. This smacks of them having money troubles and on the way to the breaker's yard!
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