{"id":28479,"date":"2024-12-05T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=podcast&p=28479"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:05","slug":"kitman-labs-podcast-what-factors-drive-talent-development-in-the-premier-league-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/kitman-labs-podcast-what-factors-drive-talent-development-in-the-premier-league-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitman Labs Podcast: What Factors Drive Talent Development in the Premier League and Beyond?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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We bring you the views of the International Football Group\u2019s Paul Prescott, Aarhus\u2019 Morten Larsen, who sees one of Denmark\u2019s best academies up close, and Kitman\u2019s own Stephen Smith.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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More than 77 per cent of professional contracts in the Premier League and EFL are held by homegrown players.<\/h6>\n

It wasn\u2019t always thus. \u201cEnglish clubs were basically funding talent development models in Spain or in Brazil because English talent wasn\u2019t seen to be at the same level as players from those countries,\u201d Paul Prescott, the Managing Director of the International Football Group, told this Kitman Labs podcast.<\/p>\n

That situation persisted until recently and is starting to change in part due to the introduction of the Elite Player Performance Plan [EPPP] in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeing that some of the decisions that were made maybe 10-12 years ago are beginning to bear fruit,\u201d added Prescott, who was joined by Morten Larsen, the Head of Methodology & Development at Danish Superliga club Arhus, and Stephen Smith, the Founder of Kitman Labs.<\/p>\n

Aarhus share the Premier League\u2019s emphasis on talent development, albeit in different circumstances, as Larsen explains [5:30].<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark is a small country and the league is a small league,\u201d he says. \u201cSo there\u2019s only one thing we can do to compete with the other clubs in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Smith sets out the differences in approach between leagues and clubs [16:25]; Larsen explains the impact of data on decision-making processes in the Aarhus academy [24:10]; and Prescott ponders whether EPPP was an outcome or a catalyst [36:30].<\/p>\n