No, no, I'm not suggesting we scour the blue square for players willing to join us! It does though seem that most lower or non league players with potential will very rarely get the chance to move up as things are. Was it Hayes & Yeading we got Sir les from? Loan spell in Turkey and then he really became ( to bring up a previous thread ), a legend. I know there is much talk about the continental set up with youth, but are our home grown talents really that poor? Any emerging talent to watch out for in the next couple of years?
Of course there are. We find them and groom them and then along come Man U. Chelsea, Liverpool etc to take' em off our hands when they're 15 or 16. With a bit of luck we might get one back one day when he languishes in their reserve team and is regularly farmed out on loan. It is a sign of the disease spreading throughout the game thast new owners want only established names. It makes them feel good to know that we shop in the exclusive transfer markets rather than sale shopping through the lower leagues. Why invest in a proper scouting network and youth team factory when we can buy the likes of Bosingwa for three times the money??
