Quote ="Mild Rover"Isn't a financial benefit well worth having? Especially if the money can be spent better elsewhere e.g. On having an additional development level.
Apart from maybe Saints, Leeds and Wigan, how many clubs have under-19 teams that offer value for money?
Paying transfer fees, scouting the lower leagues and the amateur game - that'd offer more bang for your buck than the current system. At the moment it's basically train some teens to the point where a few are ready for championship 1. I know Hull fans are (rightly) proud of their under-19s efforts, but if you look at pound spent per regular first teamer produced, as Pearson, surely will, you can understand why he might think there's gotta be a better way.'"
Time will tell I guess, no doubt cutting the cloth was needed I get that, and hopefully it will be the right decision, I don't want it to fail just to be proved right, I'm not that shallow. I'm not sure the saved money will be re-invested though, I think its a saving money exercise - both directors have openly admitted they cant keep throwing money at the clubs.
I just can't help but feel that our academy was really starting to bear fruits, the evidence is there for all to see. Kind of seems a shame to have put al that investment in place and then buckle just as it was starting to come good?
If it can start producing talent on a regular basis, and the evidence would say FC are right on the cusp of that, then paying big transfers would be a thing of the past anyway, as the talent pool would be in place.
Ultimately I cant see how merging with KR will produce more talent for FC than it is now?
