Hi Bud, I agree with you it seems its down to two managers or at least to two people who are interested
What will you do first to improve this team?
For me the first thing is to work with previous U21 manager and continue on his work, there is no point starting from scratch when you can utilise someone else's resource and hard work.
Second is to communicate with existing managers that own players of national team and start a dialogue so we can find the best way to continue to work with them and train players.
Thirdly, scout all the new drafts to identify new potential and then set up a training programme with the owners of these players.
Fourthly try to organise strategic friendlies which as you know help the ranking of the team and might help us get better and luckier draws in official competitions, it makes a bid difference.
Finally, work on public relations and try to set up alliances or at least become friendly with lots of national teams, cause you can benefit from that.
What do you guys think we can do, to improve our roster development system to generate more quality (good) UAE players in the future?
I think this is the tricky question, you need to give an incentive to the managers to continue to work on good and quality players. So my first thing is similar to Konrad setting up a private forum or network where people can work together and evaluate all players. My excel skills are good but not that good to set up an automatic programme that scouts all draft, i prefer to do this job manually and want to create a motivated team from people in the UAE that will work with me and assist in this process. At the same time, i keep repeating its very important that the U21 team is a preparation for the national team, and the important thing is not so much the ranking but the development of players that will be ready for the big team and will get the most out of trainign at their young years 18-21.
At the same time, one of the most important things for me, abour roster developments, its farming. I know it might sound illegal, or imoral but it makes such a difference and most of the big if not all the big teams use it. But more on that on private messages or private thread. ;)
U21 manager is about training, Can you give us name(s) of the player(s) you previously train or currently train that you can be proud of.
I agree but I also disagree. U21 is about managing other managers that do the training and then pick the best. Its not about training myself. For me someone who has a national team player, especially a young one, has to make a choise and sometimes sacrifice his own team for the benefit of the player and the national team. So i think as a manager of the U21 my job is to manage, communicate, and motivate managers to continue to train, to set up a training programme and to make sure that the best players make it for the team. Different managers use different tactics in their own personal team. And my target has been to train players in my team but not to make the national team potential. But instead to make them strong enough for my team, while at the same time concentrate on buying experienced players which is a luxury you dont have as a national manager. So i might not have the players in my team that are national team players, but that was a choice and nothing else, but i can assure you as a team manager its easy for me to manage a team, create a network and work with other people for the benefit of the U21 team. I do that as a living as well, outside buzzer so its easy to apply the same skills.
Just to answer your question though here are a couple of youngster that have made it in my team
My team captain and own draft
(9421358)My own draft sold for 1,000,ooo
(13394485)thanks