Quote Originally Posted by Whisperer View Post
Personally I think it's slowly suffocating the life out of football.
Like it or not it is just the way that football has gone. It seems raiding the academy of smaller clubs and hoping one or two come good is the way your Man City's of this world have chosen. When they are getting millions from other leagues for players like Matondo who didn't really make it with them then you can understand why they do it.

If City aren't to be left behind they need to be utilising the loan market as much as other clubs and aiming to be a club that players want to come to and the parent club want to send their players.
I don't think our brand of football has helped in this regard in recent times.