Quote Originally Posted by MOZZER2 View Post
not sure where to put this one but anyone here heard of charlie crew ?

supposed to be a welsh youngster aged 17 on trial with Leeds

wheres he from etc ?
He was legally poached last summer from our academy.

The current system stinks. Anyone showing any promise can be enticed away with next to no recompense to the club who spent years developing them.

The current system needs to change or more clubs will adopt the Brentford model which doesn't benefit youngsters.

Using Rabbi Matondo's exit as an example a fairer system would have given us at least 50% of the fee Manchester city got for him. The percentage should be set by the number of years between transfer fee and joining their first academy. If say we had spent 5 years developing the player and so had Manchester city then a 50 50 split would be fair.