Quote Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays View Post
https://trainingground.guru/articles...coaches-course

Good post but are you getting your licences mixed up? You may well be right about the UEFA coaching badge but it seems the elite coaching licence is an FA thing and was disbanded some years ago.

I wasn't trying to catch you out; I figured that we couldn't afford Critchley at the moment so wondered if we could find a similar graduate who wouldn't need a fee and found the link above, though it looks like Critchley was the standout student.

Hopefully our new board member is on the case and scouring the globe for a similar prospect (said in hope rather than expectation).
That coaching course sounds amazing, especially the part about preparing tactically to face Barcelona - what training drills you would use the week before to help your tactics work and then hearing from rene Mulensteen what ManUtd actually did in the build up to that game. All the bright young coaches on that course - I bet none of them would have come up with the innovation of playing 5 centre backs in one game. God knows what training drills we were doing to get that to work as well.