Before Liverpool Reserves victory against Bolton yesterday, temporary Reserve team coach Pep Segura had this to say:
“We have to play with different players every game and that makes it tough for us to create a strong team. Our idea is to work hard with the Scouse spirit. If we win, fantastic. But if we lose we will work harder. When you lose your idea is always to win the next game. But we always aim to do everything with the ideas and concepts we are in the process of implementing.”
Segura is the Academy’s Techical Manager and has taken over reserve team responsibilities from John McMahon until the end of the season. McMahon officially left his position as Reserve Team Coach at the start of the week, and I was surprised that he left considering the success he had been having with the side. Especially with the lack of players due to either them being loaned out or being used in first team squads, McMahon had still managed to get the team to the brink of another Reserve League title. Still, McMahon was removed from his post a couple of weeks ago with the Reds citing another proposed restructuring of levels below the first team in the summer.
Considering it hasn’t even been two years since the last restructuring when Frank McParland was tasked by Rafa Benitez to change the makeup of Liverpool’s youth ranks, it seems a bid odd that more restructuring is required. The quote from Segura above does however hint at why McMahon had to leave. The Academy has made great strides over the last 18 months with McParland, Segura and Rodolfo Borrell at the forefront of the changes. Central to their philosophy has been to inculcate a consistent philosophy, both on and off the pitch, which is spread throughout all levels at the academy.
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This maybe a good sign that a deal may be in the pipeline for dalglish. movement on the backroom staff maybe a signal that he has the power to change so is looking towards next year and his ideas. Hopefully kenny will get the liverpool way back in where liverpool recruited from the boot room, this ensured the liverpool mentality was kept but new ideas of training methods and tactics where brought in with new up and coming coaches who will eventually become the manager. In our successful times the manager would change and tactics would be more modern, However the thing thst stayed the same was the pass and move style combined with a die hard attitude to never give up. If we can get this back then liverpool can be a force again and hopefully recruit from within in terms of players and managers.
I’ve always felt getting some of the youngsters out on loan is something we have lacked in recent years. There must come a point where a youth team player fully understands the clubs playing philosophy and translates that directly to his performance. When your at that stage, the only way to develop is meaningful match time and if it’s not in the first team, the next best thing is a loan to another Premier league club, failing that a Championship club, failing that you would have to wonder if the player has the capacity to make as a pro.