Chronicle: Ashley to Invest in Young Talent, Cull Current Youths

mike seems to be taking us seriously just lately i am happy he never sold anyone so if he thinks he can sort the other squad out what we got to lose

 

Anyone else think that Thin Mike, having lost a lot of weight, is feeling better about himself recently and is therefore doing good things for the club?

 

quite possibly he could have had a bet with llambias and lost ha ha you lose weight mike you must invest

 

Plausible, once you feel better about yourself you do generally have a better outlook on things and what better way to continue that than by pumping more money into a club flying high in the league.

 

and STILL some of you will not forgive him. What the **** is it going to take for you to back YOUR owner?? Its a bit ridiculous of you lot. As if you have some higher proven skill in owning football clubs and that you would do so much better, when in actual fact you probably would have failed worse than Ashley and left by now. The sooner you back MA the sooner things will run more smoothly

 

In other news man set to walk on moon.
This isn't exactly a new development, its been his plan since buying the club.
Allardyce was given a million to spend on Ben Tozer.
Kadar and Vuckic were part of the youth players from around the world bought for the future idea.

 

Would be brilliant if this the way we go.

 

Great policy but like somebody already said I didn't think this was news. One of his first ever statements after buying the club said the same and the recruitment has been going on for years.

The current cul list is new but the rest has been said before.

I'm only dissing the news worthiness of this btw and am totally behind the decision. With the fairplay rules having an affect, look at the lack of spending this window, creating your own quality players is obviously the way forward.

 

I am sure I saw him play against Palermo in 2006 which was wayyyy before that urchins arrival

 

Wise was going to sell Krul for a few hundred grand a couple of seasons back. Possibly to Feyenoord. I think it got as far as Krul being at the airport before the plug was pulled.
As for the list of names its a seasonal thing. In theory we should be having a squad of 25 qualifying from the reserves to the first team every other season but the first team pool only turns over every five years at least.
Players are getting recognised from a younger age so are in the fans discussions longer, but not many bridge that gap from reserves to professional football.

 

So better the devil you know?

I just hope he's switched on enough to keep Carr here. He's been working wonders!

 

dennis wise needs a bullet he is a ****er and brought bad luck with him to our club

 

Pointless. If a top club offers 100k a week then us going from 50 to 65 wont make a difference to the player.

 

Yeah. If Liverpool/Chelsea/City/etc. come in offering big bucks then there's not much we can reasonably do. We simply aren't on the same level financially as they are.

That being said, I do think the wage cap will be raised, if the club continues to perform well and bring in the money to pay for it. What's not going to happen is fat contracts that the club can't afford being given to players who don't deserve them.

 

**** it

 

That's cool I guess, but we can't rely solely on youth, we still have to be prepared to spend some money. Good to see that we're planning on keeping Vuckic, Streete, Alnwick and Abeid who are destined for great things if they keep going the way they're going.

 

Haven't we already been doing this anyway?

 

Not really, we're about to overhaul a significant percentage of the team and pursue more young players like Vuckic and Abeid.

 

Good, them lads are better than a lot of the older ones. Love seeing the young lads play.

 

At this rate we're going to see him at away games in his strip and in Bigg Market buying diet cokes!