One of the most Efficient in the championship

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Originally Posted by Michael Morris

…transfer chief Patrick Deboys is leading that change…

…the club have had to rip up and move away from their old scouting network to implement a new, data-driven model to sign players.

"We've got 30-35% of the first team now being supplied by the academy, which is great and we're seeing the benefits of that"

"We have one of the most efficient recruitment departments in the league"

"Over the long term, if we can make the squad better after every window, that's the most pleasing aspect."

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Anybody heard from Patrick Deboys recently?

I would love to get a bit more information on these benefits of 30-35% academy take up of the first team.

You know he has been with the club for almost ten years? Who does his year-end appraisals? Oh, hang on.. :facepalm:

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Originally Posted by Jamsarnie

I would love to get a bit more information on these benefits of 30-35% academy take up of the first team.

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I think the benefits are quite obvious.

That's 3-4 players who you don't need to pay a transfer fee for, leaving more money to strengthen the remining places.

academy players are almost always on a lower wage.

There's a chance that the academy players will kick on and really increase in value, giving another income stream from selling them on.


It's definitely a good approach to take for a club of our size.

Bringing through youngsters is hard though - there's a reason Warnock didn't want to bother with it. They are inconsistent, make errors, and you never know how much they're going to develop. From a manager's point of view there's a good chance they'll be sacked before you ever see the benefit of persisting with them. However from the club's point of view its definitely preferable to having a load of ageing players on large wages that you can't get rid of.

Most other clubs in the division are doing it to an extent - maybe 2-3 debuts per season, with 1 or 2 in time becoming embedded in the first team.

having 3-4 of the team from the academy is ambitious and would put us in line with some of the better clubs in that respect.

This article aged well then. To be fair he didn't say which league we have one of the best recruiting setups in, he may just have been very good at seeing into the future.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

Â…From a manager's point of view there's a good chance they'll be sacked before you ever see the benefit of persisting with them.

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At the time of the article - and probably over the past decade - I don't think anybody thought the first team squad was capable of absorbing that percentage of academy players.

If the hierarchy at Cardiff feel this approach is the most profitable way to run/own the club and they're not fussed what league we end up playing in, then the lack of action to halt our nailed on relegation this season makes a bit more sense.

I just wish they'd be a bit more honest about it and have the bollox to tell the fans.

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Originally Posted by LA Bluebird

This article aged well then. To be fair he didn't say which league we have one of the best recruiting setups in, he may just have been very good at seeing into the future.

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Any ire directed at Omer Riza, a lot should be directed at this charlatan...

And Riza, and Tan, Dalman, Choo, Borley, the players, coaches, physios :hehe: