Originally Posted by
Undercoverinwurzelland
There should be a rule making it compulsory for the purchasing clubs to include really decent sell-on clauses when they sign players too young for professional contracts who've been with the selling club for more than a couple of years. Could be a sliding scale based on how long they've been with the academy.
£250k is nothing to Man City. How many of these players do they and the other big teams hoover up every year, with the possibility that they'll either make it and play for them or they'll sell them for a tidy profit? The big clubs get bigger, the small clubs stay small.