Aarons ready to feel at home here
talked about the process of ‘growing the squad’ - and by that he means by bringing more of these youngsters and fringe players up to a first-team level.
That is precisely where this club sees its longerterm future – bringing through more and more young players from the academy set-up, not to the complete exclusion of transfers, but as a budget-friendly supplement to those new first-team arrivals they do bring in like the debuting Rolando Aarons. In the meantime, Town do not need to field eleven of them every week.
They just need them to be good enough to fill in here and there as required, as Crichlow, Daly, Brown and Duhaney have done a
While Town would obviously much rather had won, the result was never the most important thing
reasonable job of at various points over the last year or so. Nobody is under any illusions that every prospect in this particular 20-man squad is going to go on and have a stellar 10-year career at Huddersfield Town. But if even half a dozen of them make it through to be capable and reliable long-term squad rotation options and just one or two of them evolve into more than that - and there is an argument that in unused substitute Ryan Schofield and the absent Rarmani Edmonds-Green, they already have a couple who are well on their way to that - the policy will have paid off.
NEW Huddersfield Town signing Rolando Aarons is hoping to find something at the club that he’s not felt since he was a teenager – somewhere to call home.
The winger’s career had stalled at Newcastle United after emerging as a teenager in 2014 and the 25-year-old has expressed his relief at having finally sealed a permanent move away after having five different shortterm loan spells over the last three years.
Aarons also revealed he had been speaking to Town top scorer Josh Koroma about what to expect upon his arrival at the club - and that he arrives prepared for the rigours of Carlos Corberan’s style as a result.
“Every time I get on the pitch, even on those loan spells, it’s an opportunity to prove yourself but I feel like this is the first time since maybe I was really young at Newcastle where I can really call somewhere my home, which I haven’t been able to do,” said Aarons, who made his debut as a substitute in Saturday’s FA Cup defeat by Plymouth.
“It gives me peace of mind and that side of it will a lot more helpful for me going into this.
“Players like Josh would probably say himself he didn’t have the best loan spell last season [at Rotherham], but he’s come back this season and he’s flying. It just shows what Carlos is doing here and the progression the players are making.
“He’s told me it’s very demanding but it’s improving him as a player and as a footballer that’s all you really want.”
Speaking about that style of play, Aarons said: “It would probably be like nothing the boys have ever experienced before and it’s obviously going to take some time.
“The boys have started to progress and naturally towards the end of the season you’ll probably see the best performances.”