Interesting story in the Daily Star of all places this morning where it names the top ten Championship sides this season when it comes to using players produced by their Academies. Almost entirely down to Joe Ralls, we are rated tenth. which is seven or eight places higher than I thought we'd be, but our figure in terms of number of minutes played by former youth players at the club is about a third of that of the team at the top, Leeds, who have also done very well when it comes to getting the sorts of fees that enabled them to build the type of team they have this season.
That's where we really fall down I feel - say what you like about Peter Ridsdale, but we were able to build very competitive sides in this division through signings made off the proceeds of the sale of one or two players every summer for seven figure sums - since we were relegated, we've almost completely lost the knack of finding players we could make a profit on when they left us.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...sportgalleries
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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