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Depends how you look at it. Whilst we may have not developed many young players we have been promoted twice to the Premier League in that time. So we obviously made some players better.
Every club would like to get promoted with a team full of developed players but how often is that the case? Most clubs buy their way out of this division. Thats just the way it is.
Lets cut the bullshit, this is just another of your threads with the hidden message being an attack on Vincent Tan.
Let it go mun.
Oh yeah, that's the 'agenda', of course it is.....
As it happens, I believe Tan is largely blameless for this area of the club's operations. As often as not, he's backed his managers with reasonable sums of money. The problem is that, by and large, they've brought in players that either aren't capable of progressing past Championship level or aren't even good enough for the second tier.
It's telling that, of the players the last manager assembled last year for a tilt at the Premier League, only two are playing top flight football this season. One, who was here on loan, can't even get on Crystal Palace's bench, while the other is turning out for a side who are 17th in the French league.
Yeah, that tends to happen when a club gets relegated after just 1 season. It was a squad made up of players who had never played in the Premier League, or those that had operated previously in the top flight, were deemed not good enough so its not that telling.
Its not like we signed a load of established Premier League players, they spent one season with Cardiff, and they are shit. The players were not good enough for that level to begin with.
My answer to this would be that we haven't done as well with signing players for little and selling them for lots to bigger clubs (or as well with bringing players through as youngsters) since the days of Ridsdale and Hammam. That's not any agenda against Tan or Dato Chen Ghee. I think that's factually obvious.
Another interesting question might be to ask how many players we've made a profit from in recent seasons. I don't think there's many at all.