[Official] Zeb Jacobs to leave club at end of season

[Rousseau 9,484]

 

[compo 6,214]

Does the club get any compensation 

[Sutton_blows_goats 4,321]

[JohnMc 2,483]

Compared to PSV and Ajax the Feyenoord youth set up isn't that successful. I mean it's still better than ours, but that's a low bar. 

I thought bringing in someone from Belgian football made some sense. They've been pretty successful producing players in recent years and with a population around twice that of Scotland's copying whatever they're doing seemed logical. 

I've no idea if Zeb Jacobs was the right guy to implement that. I've no idea if he'll be a huge loss to the club. Perhaps whatever he's done over the last couple of years will bear fruit in the near future. Maybe his successor will get the credit, or blame, for that. 

Rangers and Scottish football in general aren't going to start producing seriously good players until the entire league is changed and it won't matter who we bring in to replace him. It is no coincidence that Celtic brought through a batch of decent young players when we were out of the top league. Since we've returned they've developed nothing like that number. Young players aren't getting a game when a couple of draws are a crisis and three defeats will see a manager sacked. 

[Bluedell 5,354]

It seems that some who attend the youth games regularly weren't too impressed by Jacobs.

[Whosthedado 1,519]

Is it bad that I thought 'who' when I saw this!

[Sutton_blows_goats 4,321]

52 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

It seems that some who attend the youth games regularly weren't too impressed by Jacobs.

I follow him on Instagram and it looked like he just spent his 3 years here travelling around Europe doing PowerPoint presentations. 

 

Obviously that's not indicative of what he did while he was at the training center 9-5 but its all I have to go on.

[Uilleam 5,487]

2 hours ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

PowerPoint presentations. 

 

Is Power Point still a thing?

Or are Rangers miles behind the technological wave? (I shouldn't be surprised.)

 

Anyway, there is no point in worrying:

There is nothing we can do about the matter;

There will be another Academy Director along in due course, to slot seamlessly onto the top of the pyramid;

We don't actually know if we should be worried about this change (which, I concede, might be worrying, in itself). 

 

 

 

Edited April 30 by Uilleam

[compo 6,214]

Open the doors and let them all go it's not as if the academy has produced a production line of talent .

[26th of foot 5,856]

Rangers youths are participating in this season's Youth Cup final against Aberdeen tomorrow evening at Hampden.