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Arsene Wenger: Can the new breed of Arsenal youngsters fight, suffer, make sacrifices to become real winners?
Ask Arsene Wenger about his Premier League titles, the FA Cup wins, the clubs first Champions League final and he will reply reluctantly. For him, that is all in the past and it is the future that interests him more.
Ask him about the Academy he has established, its development and the youngsters it is producing and watch his passion glow. This is what the future is all about. Players bred to play for Arsenal.
I believe the Academy is the real heart of the club because it represents the future and guarantees a long existence for the club at the top level, says Wenger, during Sportsmails unique insight into his talent factory this week.
It also represents the real culture and style of the club, because thats where we try to bring in the way we want to play football, the way we want to behave and the way we want to represent the club.
That all comes from the youth team. I believe it is very important there is a transmission and a common culture inside the club.
Arsenals Under 18 team won the Academy League and FA Youth Cup double last season, and Wenger has already promoted some of those players to his first team for games in the Carling Cup this season and the Champions League game away to Olympiakos earlier this month.
It always makes me think the club I love is in safe hands and has a good future, Wenger adds. Thats always a very positive feeling because you think, This is not finished, this will continue, it will go on and on and it can even get better.
They are doing an exceptional job at the Academy. Steve Bould is developing extremely well as a coach and thats why they are doing remarkably well.
When I saw the youth team last year, they played well, but not only that, they showed qualities you know will be very important to win at the top level. When the games were very tight, they always found the resources to win.
You might think, Oh, what are you worried about? but the final quality to come in for a youth team player is the mental side of it. Are they able to win? Can they fight, suffer, make sacrifices to be real winners.
We have seen so many players with talent who dont make it. So when you see that, you think the future of the club is in safe hands.
That is the best crop we have had since I was here, in terms of individual quality and mentally as well. They will all be professional football players. The next step for them is to show they will be Arsenal football players.
They will make a career, all 15 who played last year, but maybe only a few of them will be a regular player at Arsenal and thats what the next two or three years will decide.
The period between the ages of 18 and 21 is identified as one of the problem areas for youth development in English football because the standard in the Premier League has become so high that it is difficult, even for the top academy graduates, to break in.
Wenger has six promising youngsters out on loan three in the Championship, two in League One and one in the German Bundesliga in the hope that they will develop their football and appreciate life in surroundings which might not be as cosseted as it can be at Arsenal.
Its a modern problem we try to sort out, said Wenger. We try to put every football player in the best possible environment, where he can have no excuses if he fails, but we also try not to go overboard and pamper them a little bit too much.
Thats why many times we try to get them out for a period on loan in the Championship, to be toughened up, to learn what its like to play for the first team with responsibility and pressure to perform.
And to know the career is not as easy as it looks sometimes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1237044/Arsene-Wenger-Can-new-breed-Arsenal-youngsters-fight-suffer-make-sacrifices-real-winners.html
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