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8m for Zohore good, at the time Ramsey - 5m for a 16/17 yo was good money - Prefer he stayed and potential for more but if he had to go, add on’s would have been nice but club needed cash.
Fee for this guy looks about right,. Real question is who cares what they get really? They are not our problem.
James and McBurnie were in their late teens by the time they went to the Jacks. They obviously deserve credit though but people criticise us for taking Ralls at 15 and not a real youth player etc, while these two came in 2/3 years after that! I agree though, we have to get it working better than it is currently, we've wasted 5 seasons really with no progression. Hopefully Coxe gets games somewhere this season!
Re McBurnie, he puts the ball in the back of the net first and foremost. If he does that, nobody will care. He's scored 33 in his last 61 games for the Jacks and Barnsley. It's a lot of money but I'd rather spend it on him than Solanke.
I don't think we should be criticized for taking Ralls and developing him and I don't think they should be criticized for how they've developed Mcburnie and particularly Dan James who was about 14 when he went to Swansea from Hull.
Either way they've spent a lot of time developing these players in their academy according to their philosophy and made a profit of £35 million ffs. How can anyone be sceptical of that!!
Just for clarity, James was 16 when he joined the Jacks:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150416...il/story.html#
McBurnie was 19 and already played 30 professional games:
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co....ager-mcburnie/
All credit to the Jacks for improving them.
Not really both players were already out of their respective academy before they came to Swansea. McBurnie was on a pro deal at Bradford.
Dont get me wrong Swansea did well to identify 2 young talents, they were lucky they were in the Premier League at the time, and the players developed in their U23 squad.
However its nothing to do with them having a strong academy.