LJ won’t be going anywhere at present,we are on the cusp of something. I just hope the club don’t balls it up.
Ha ha not what you were saying 6 months ago!! I think we are in a catch 22.. If we don't go up, it's been shown on TV that we have good players and a very good young manager...we will be lucky to keep them!
BCFC are a selling club. Even Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs have to sell their best. With what is occurring at Ashton Gate could make BCFC a obvious choice for young talent. Recruitment is set up to promote a righteous circle of scout, buy, develop, sell at profit, alongside the long term nurture of the academy. Bristol City being a club that plays youth, plays a obvious passing and modern style of football, good stadium, improving facilities could become a club renowned for that ethos making it easier to recruit. A case of one goes out, another talent is already in the building via the academy or the further recruitment of youthful players. The righteous circle. Doing things the right way can also open the door to further quality loans. EPL clubs stockpile great kids - Gotta a great prospect = Bristol City = They look after them, develop, play, don't diminish potential. Recruits will come in. They will almost certainly not be the players you want but the big players City do have like Joe Bryan you wanted rid off, and the academy that produced him and Bobby Reid. The big opportunity is to continue along that path above not abandon it.
I remember, I'm going going back a few years, in fact the 80's & 90's, Crewe Alex, they employed a guy called Dario Gradi, he set up a well renowned youth development programme, it focused on attractive, technical football, this was regarded as very successful at that time and produced some well known names from their system, Rod Jones, Neil Lennon, Danny Murphy, Seth Johnson, & Robbie Savage ( I must admit I researched those names) all good value players whom were sold on. Look at Crewe now, right back in the doldrums, I hope that is not repeated by us.
back in the pre 80's?/70's Burnley were in the then first division, I used to play games with brothers on the results based on Sat 5pm and the gates in the N O W on the Sunday Divisions 1 and 2 it was based on drawing your teams from a pot scoring was based on about 4 or 5 different aspects... nobody wanted Burnley as they were always the lowest gate by quite a way... and once read an article they always had at least 1 player to sell at the seasons end to pay the bills and wages for the next! Crewe, MORE MODERN AGE were similar, difficult for them to maintain a high division status BUT A FANTASTIC ACEDEMY.
I see Javier Hernández might be up for sale......wages would be loads, till the end of the season would be nice!!
And Crewe were not backed by financial clout. No Mr Lansdown. Gates of 2/3/4 thousand. What they did was out of necessity. What they did was very successful on and off the pitch financially and in terms of results. The Premier league driven self interested Elite Player Performance Plan damaged what Crewe did for ever. Crewe existing as a club as they do with means that puts them on par with say Torquay or Hereford is still testimony to their methodology. A better parallel in means / potential is Southampton to Bristol City. A club that develops and sells at great profit and thus reinvests in its XI and further development of players, and the structure that produces them.
Sensible offer for Flint he should go. He is 29 (???) and at his peak. Sensible offer for Bryan 10-15m and thats the academy paid for another ten years.
We are not at that stage yet.. A season or two in the prem by not selling your quality players will create £150m pound of revenue. (and more) . a possible cat 1 academy and paid for 50 years!
City will always be at that stage, They would have sold Flint earlier if clubs had put up what SL wanted.
With where we are in the league this season, there is no way would I sell either Flint or Bryan......unless it's stupid money...I would try and hang onto them until the summer, even if we did get less for them.
If Bryan and Flint are sold ... Add the bank of Steve. There would still be the issue of replacements following the ifs of how and would he/they/we want to. It also emphasizes how trifling the sums are to run the Bristol City academy annually, which is a fundamental part of the progress of the XI.
when you sell a player you either have a equal to replace him or he this back up to your regular... sell your main man and buy another? ..you hope there is one and he works out.. in the past we have dropped a few.........................
