Lionel Messi spoke about the problems for academies in the Pep Guardiola era but Manchester City have already addressed it
Ever since they came together to change football at Barcelona, there has been a race to try to replicate the success that Pep Guardiola and Lionel Messi have enjoyed.
However, it is not always useful when people try and imitate the success. Guardiola has regularly warned about the dangers of 'copy and paste' just because there appears to be a winning formula, and now Messi has spoken of the 'confusion' that can harm the development of young players by trying to over-coach them.
"At foundation phase, it's about game understanding," academy director Thomas Krucken told MEN Sport. last month. "Let the lead coach be the mentor of the kids to explain something to the team members.
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