Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Our wage bill when we went up under Warnock was 55 million. there's no way it got anywhere near that under jones.
Although during the Dave Jones / Peter Risdale era we brought in a lot of old pros, at the end of their career (on big money), we did see a lot of youngsters come through too.

We had Cameron Jerome, Ledley, Gunter, Blake, Ramsey, Matthews...and previously to that Gabbs, Earnie, Collins...

There was a bit of a purple patch for a brief period and some of the transfer fees enabled us to keep the taxman at bay.

It's worrying that we have not been able to produce a young player of note in recent times, or maybe we have but they have not been given the opportunities.

The risk of blooding youngsters, who might make mistakes, is too high for clubs these days with the amount of money on the line. That attitude has to change though, for clubs like us we are going to need to be able to produce talent we can sell on at some stage to survive.