England have had an extremely successful year at various youth age groups and yet there is a clearly identified block to the progress of these players within the current club set up. I came across some information about FC FShM Moscow and wondered if there might be a way of creating a similar structure in England. From what I gather FC FShM Moscow was a Soviet era team, established by the Soviet football authorities which played young Moscow based players in the Soviet league in order to give them a platform for development. (Please correct me if I've got the wrong end of the stick here).
Is it feasible to create say 4 regional young England squads (up to 21 year olds) - loosely based on North West, North East and Yorkshire, Midlands and London with say 20 players each loaned to them on a similar basis by professional clubs as they are currently loaned to lower league teams and based on the philosophy that the players will get rotated and experience a similar amount of game time? These four teams would start in league 2 and be able to be promoted up but not relegated out of the FL. The current FA youth coaches role would be expanded to run these teams. In order to balance the fixture load the The EFL Trophy would be abolished and for one season 6 teams would be promoted to League 1 from League 2 to allow both of these leagues to then run as 26 club leagues.
Lots of other details would need to be sorted but as a basic idea would this work? Is this desirable?
Is it feasible to create say 4 regional young England squads (up to 21 year olds) - loosely based on North West, North East and Yorkshire, Midlands and London with say 20 players each loaned to them on a similar basis by professional clubs as they are currently loaned to lower league teams and based on the philosophy that the players will get rotated and experience a similar amount of game time? These four teams would start in league 2 and be able to be promoted up but not relegated out of the FL. The current FA youth coaches role would be expanded to run these teams. In order to balance the fixture load the The EFL Trophy would be abolished and for one season 6 teams would be promoted to League 1 from League 2 to allow both of these leagues to then run as 26 club leagues.
Lots of other details would need to be sorted but as a basic idea would this work? Is this desirable?
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