I wouldn't be taking this too seriously, infact I would advocate an approach which English teams haven't used before. I'd go into it with essentially a B team, and if Mike Marsh/Colin Pascoe are assistants worth their salts I'd let them take the helm. As it is, we have to IMHO be totally prepared to go out of this early, we ought to be playing guys who can't get a game in the senior team (had it been this season, Balotelli, Borini, Toure, Enrique, Manquillo etc along with the up and coming kids, Sinclair, Rossiter etc). Now obviously if we DO progress, we can always start getting interested once it gets going a bit.
I think it would be bonkers though to get too heavily involved in it early doors, it's league form we need and it should IMHO purely be used as a platform to support that, not as a parallel competition for the same players to play in.
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