That's a great looking pitch and your academy is also obviously very good, now if you can just get rid of the fat drummer and the goal music, you'll be onto a winner.
I've just read a very interesting article on how the new academy systems works and it's actually disgraceful. It's also not true that you won't lose players for peanuts, the whole system is geared to towards the big clubs cherry picking anyone they want. We got £75k compensation from Reading for Harry Cladwell last week, if we'd been Cat 1 we'd have got £209k, it's crap whatever category academy you have.
Didn't know that I'll admit - and you are right it is disgraceful - unfortunately the 'uncertainty' of how well such a prospect will do ultimately makes it almost impossible to protect against - although perhaps a ruling that a club that has a player poached in such circumstances should also then receive 50% sell on and / or a value based on his contract(s) whilst at the poaching club, could go some way to redressing the injustice?
Surely a percentage of the sell-on fee relating to how many years said youngster was at your club, would be a good idea.
Bring in FFP and this stupid academy rule is doesnt make sense in the slightest The whole point of FFP was to stop team spending big on signing players and giving big wages. So they would then concentrate on bringing through young players from the academy Now with the Academy system team like Hull and to a degree us are going to say whats the point if when we actually do bring through someone decent he going to go to a bigger club for peanuts. For me they should have left everything how it was. If clubs like Portsmouth spend beyond their means and put themselves out of business its the own fault. Same goes for us, if the club cant be managed properly by the people at the top then bad things will happen
Very true and it seems it's already having exactly the opposite effect to it's aim. Yeovil and someone else(sorry, I've forgotten who), have immediately closed their academies, as they see no benefit to bringing players through, if they can't get a decent return on their investment. It seems to me, that it's completely self defeating and can only be to the detriment to the game.
This is another example of how greedy and self-serving the premier league has become. They don't care about the game, the FA or anything else except lining their own pockets. The rich get richer and clubs bankrupt themselves trying to join them.
