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Speaker 3: 8:25
If Liverpool's U16 team goes to play in European competition knowing there's different. Was it September 1? Is that the cutoff?
Speaker 6: 8:33
Yeah, september 1, generally yeah.
Speaker 3: 8:35
So if they're September 1, they go to play Ajax. Ajax is January 1, how do they do that?
Speaker 6: 8:40
Yeah, good question. So they'll do. Ajax will just have a mix of the two, I guess, in terms of years, years of birth, mixed into the age group, because they'll have some that are kind of early part of one year and late part of the other year, and then for Liverpool they would just operate as normal in terms of their approach. But I think where you get a lot of the bigger European clubs and a lot of the bigger Premier League clubs will already be playing younger players up anyway, because that's just the way that they're operating in their academies. In the 16s, for example, liverpool will probably have I'm just guessing here but probably a 60-40 split between under-16 players. The 60, and 40% will probably be 15s players playing up anyway.
Speaker 6: 9:25
So you always get that little bit of a disparity between clubs anyway and I think Ajax will be similar in that kind of sense and then some others maybe will operate solely with the older players in the year for that tournament.
Speaker 6: 9:39
But it'll be defined by whoever's running that tournament what the kind of cut off point is in terms of under 16 at this state and then you work back from that in terms of what players you have available. But a lot easier to do in a system where you have so many kids in an academy that are fairly close in level anyway that it doesn't make a huge amount of difference Usually when it's one year difference. The bigger change came if it was a two year gap right, because that's massive at youth development age, but generally a one year is not huge and they would only put the right ones for the right level of challenge into that squad for that tournament. And that's again where they're blessed, because they pick their tournaments around the world and then they pick which ones suit which players at which time. And that's where they're probably fortunate because of the nature of Premier League academies and Cat 1 academies in the UK.
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