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Darren Purses’s City side hammered today:


Darren Purses Cardiff City’s U21 team play Sheffield United’s U21’s

Cardiff City’s bright stars for the future are playing away today.

Both sides have fielded a lot of younger ones today due to international break.

Both sides had players making their debut for the U21’s today.



SHEFFIELD UNITED U21’S 6 CARDIFF CITY’S U21’S 2
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“ Cardiff City U21 fixtures for the 2023/24 “

Tue Aug 15 Fleetwood Town 4 Cardiff City 1

Tue Aug 22 Cardiff City 3 Sheffield Wednesday 3

Sat Aug 26 Burnley 2 Cardiff City 2

Frid 1st Sept Cardiff City 2 Barnsley 1

Tue 12th Sept Sheffield United 6 Cardiff City 2

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The young Bladesmen lead 3-0 vs Cardiff inside 15 minutes

Yes City get one back


Fin Johnson netting for City.

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3-2 now

5-2

Full Time 6-2

Full Time 6-2

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Purse out ASAP, bring back SOL BAMBA

Purse out ASAP, bring back SOL BAMBA

1,000% Agree.

Sol Bamba should of had the job.

As far as u21s go. I don't think I recognise more than about 3 names there. That must've been a young team?!

As far as u21s go. I don't think I recognise more than about 3 names there. That must've been a young team?!

Yes mate I watched it, many new younger players on either side, more like an u19’s match

This clown Purse needs to be sacked from the 21s before millions of potential talent goes down the toilet.

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Oh my god wtf

Purse out ASAP, bring back SOL BAMBA

Agree with Purse going but why Bamba? Surely we should be looking for a coach with experience to bring players through, perhaps an old head like Curbishley or Pardrew or similar.

Also find it very strange that Bulut hasn't voiced his concerns unless he another who is not going to use young talent?

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This maybe a poorer batch of youngsters than perhaps we are used to but what Purse does about it is critical?

Option A is to stick with them and hope that in the future they come good.
Option B is to continually offload your weakest player and replace him with someone better (Like Football Manager )

Going by past experiences option A doesn't work and we end up offloading to a Welsh League side and (at a later date) having to spend millions on a player because he hasn't come through the youth setup.

Some years ago, through work on a legal case, I had the good fortune to speak with Dave Merrington (Google him). He was the Youth Coach (16 upwards) at Southampton from 1983. The now incarcerated Bob Higgins looked after those younger than 16!

Anyway, when I was speaking to him we got talking about Bale and Jimmy Andrews and we talked about coaching. He used the motto "the team is only as good as the weakest link" and, to improve, you have to continually replace the weakest link with someone better.

This was the Youth Team they had in 1986 so he clearly knew what he was doing!

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/11917935.francis-benali-remembers-southamptons-198687-youth-team/

I represented some of these players in their civil action against the convicted child abuser Bob Higgins. Cant say which though!

So I honestly believe that Option B is the best. We need a good youth scouting team that is constantly on the lookout for good quality youngsters (Like when we got hold of Cameron Jerome as a youngster) and that we need to be constantly offloading the weak players and replacing them with quality.

Look at that Southampton side. Almost all of them played professionally and many of them top flight.

Is there any reason why we cannot adopt the same coaching regime that Dave Merrington adopted in the mid 80s and have a successful youth setup - and thus saving millions on transfer fees in the future?

Purse out ASAP, bring back SOL BAMBA

1,000% Agree.

Sol Bamba should of had the job.

Well, if Darren Purse has brought one thing to the U-21's, it's consistency; sadly a losing one...!