Liverpool Midfielder Secures SPL Move: Official
by YNWA on September 15th, 2009 230 words | 10 commentsYoungster makes loan move permanent.
Liverpool today confirmed the sale of midfielder Ryan Flynn to Scottish Premier League side Falkirk.
The 20-year-old Scot was on a season-long loan with The Bairns but the deal has now been made permanent.Flynn, who originally joined the Academy from Falkirk in 2006, was a key part of our successive FA Youth Cup wins, scoring in the final against Man City in 2006 and bagging three goals during the 2007 campaign.
He also helped the second string to league glory in 2007-08.
The youngster had yet to make his senior competitive debut for Liverpool, though featured in several pre-season friendlies. (Liverpool Official Site)
By all accounts Flynn was a decent player who just fell short of the standard required to get a place on the fringes of the first team picture, but a move to the SPL is by no means a bad one and clearly he can push on and do well for himself. Ryan has already become a regular at the club and has found the back of the net a couple of times already.
Luckily for us we have a fair few youngsters coming through the system who have made the grade, and given the recently announced homegrown Premier League rule, we are well placed to deal with the new guidelines.
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footybanter.co.uk - September 15th, 2009 at 11:00 am
A decent youngster, from what I’ve seen of him. Probably asking a little too much for him to break into the Liverpool starting eleven and the move will benefit his career.
Good luck to him.
Retryboy - September 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
We do have decent youngsters coming through not on the wings though i just see it as another good prospect not brought through properly if u win youth cups and reserve leagues then u r better than all the other clubs youngsters its just what happens between 18-21 at liverpool they aren’t given enough chance we have no cover for riera flynn could have done that job
desertfox - September 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
wats the point of having a youth system if most of them get sold without even playing a single game for the senior team ( at least carling or fa)
Donavan Ried - September 15th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Afternoon Retryboy …… “its just what happens between 18-21 at liverpool they aren’t given enough chance we have no cover for riera flynn could have done that job” ….. These youngsters need first team football to improve,wheter it be from the bench, in game that are won i.e Burnley at 3-0, or in full league cup games as Arsenal have done with thier youngsters …. As said by desertfox – September 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm ……….. “wats the point of having a youth system if most of them get sold without even playing a single game for the senior team” …… this is one of the areas Rafa needs to learn and improve on
anonymous - September 15th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
rafa aint no good with youngsters, his judgement cant be that good if he buys them saying they are great prospects then sells them. how many have broke thro to 1st team?
Retryboy - September 15th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Afternoon m8 must sound like broken records but it is so frustrating watching the conveyor belt of talent shipped out the squad is far too big for these players to get their chance when they should be getting run outs in the carling and fa cups the team is full of the likes of degen, voronin, babel and now kyrgiakos to keep them happy and we don’t progress cos these players want regular league games and know they won’t get that at liverpool fact is we have a bigger squad than utd and all the other big clubs by far and this reluctance from rafa to ship out the crap stops these players making the grade
anonymous - September 15th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
“The reluctance of rafa to ship out this crap”
who bid for degen, voronin, lucas, babel this summer? must have missed all those bids being rejected. You cant flog what nobody wants. the truth is, that all our ex youth team players sold on havnt done fuck all to say rafa made a mistake, except maybe Warnock who could still do a job in our squad today.
Our youth set up has been broken for a while now, from the ground up. Scouts find wrong players, coaches dont get the best out of them or teach enough, Rafa wont give them a chance bcos they are simply not good enough. The reason he plays degn and voronin is they have decent sized contracts and we want to put them in the shop window. How exactly do we plan to sell our useless players unless someone sees them playing football?!
And dont start saying that youth team being shit is all rafas fault, he’s only recently managed to get rid of all the shitty backroom staff not up to the job who were offered long contracts under Houllier so the club wouldn’t allow rafa to sack them when he arrived.
For gods sake if you reckon your a liverpool fan, at least try and learn a bit about the club before insulting it.
Retryboy - September 15th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
How has the youth set up been broken for some time u mug we win youth cups, reserve leagues with these players good enough to represent england at under 18s this lad was u obviously know fuck all seeing as tho hertha berlin offered 5 million for voronin in the summer you are trying to defend rafa yet all the players you list as unsellable he has bought which blocks the progress of top quality youngsters you have proved my point you mug and how dare u say that i am insulting liverpool i am saying these youngsters are quality you are saying they are shite pull your head out of rafa’s arse and do your homework a bit better knobhead
anonymous - September 15th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
some people have been saying wh get rid of younsters. look at the england schoolboys through to senior team and how may players actually make it?
from the flynn era we have produced spearing, kelly, darby not a bad return.
maybe having king kenny at the club the accadamy will get better and instead of producing good players like flynn we would produce world class, like mcmanaman, fowler, owen, gerrard & carragher, good luke to the lad and lets look forward to the next crop.
Retryboy - September 16th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Good point that not all players will cut the mustard at the very top level and do know that rafa has had to change so many things from all levels of the club think we have a star in nemeth and think rafa knows that with even the athens manager saying that benitez expects gr8 things from him still personally think that the way these lads dominated the reserve league players like flynn and hobbs could have been very good players in our squad and still think the size of our squad prohibits some of these players breaking through but do agree with some points made