This Murinhio guy is growing on me. Or is this trickle down world class player economics? Like the league is benefiting from City and Chelsea buying every great player up that we get the fantastic rejects. I kinda was against this billionaire football ridiculousness but this has me thinking
Chelsea had a policy going back years of "buy everything". Including encouraging youth players to break their contracts.
This idea of them stockpiling for FFP is incorrect. They just had a very large pool of players intentionally so they could pick out them. Many have fallen at the wayside. Chelsea and others were going across Europe hovering up young players at one time.
Eg. Gaël Kakuta
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaël_Kakuta
On 3 September 2009, it was announced by the
FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber,
[7] that Kakuta would be banned for four months and be fined €780,000 due to a breach of contract with his old club
Lens in order to sign for Chelsea in the summer of 2007. Chelsea were also banned from signing any players in the next two
transfer windows due to their involvement in inducing the player to break his contract at Lens, meaning they would have been unable to buy or sell players until January 2011. Further to this they received a €130,000 fine, payable to RC Lens.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_English_football_tapping_up_controversy
EVERTON get mentioned for poaching one of Crewe's 12 year olds who was their most promising in 2009 according to Dario Gradi there. Whoever that is is now 17. I wonder who and if we will get them into the first team.
Now clubs pay fixed amount "training compensation" for youth players.
Before Chelsea were like a bunch of outlaws in the wild west. When it came to poaching youth players.