sotnas
Player Valuation: £10m
Don't compare us to the [Poor language removed], mate. Their manager would get us relegated. The onion is always whinning about getting new players in.
The scouting is hard to do, I agree. But it is necessary for clubs who want, at some point, to become forces in football.
You must keep in perspective that mining players is not getting the finished product. Is about getting the roght players to develop.
Do you see Arsenal spending big? I'm sure that if they can keep tehir players beyond this new season they'll be real contenders for years. If they're doing it, why not us?
We must build a reputation on this department.
And please, don't say that compared to other english academies we are good. We are nowhere near Arsenal and Man Utd won the CL with a team based on their youth ranks.
We brought through on true class player so far, Rooney. And we sold him for big money as we did with Jeffers but he never lived up to expectations.
We needed to add a couple of players more to the selling record for that sort of money 20-30M, unitl we are able to hold them at the club.
That's what we should be doing.
One other thing, if we don't have too much money, why not buying players with a clause for future transfer fees? We'd get the player we need on a lower price. Of course if we sold the guy later we'd have to split the earnings, but if we were to keep the player, we'd have a real bargain.
For example, Moutinho...12,5M euros with a clause of 50% of a future fee for Sporting. He's young, he would be playing in a good league exposing the lad to the eyes of the big fishes... I think it would be tempting for the selling club.
