Any youth policy is an unknown. Kids will sometimes never reach their promised potential as they mature. Others are cast aside only to be late developers a few years later, No one really knows how they will end up. 

Look at Chelsea! They spend a fortune on youth development but how many of their kids break through into the first team, or even the premier league for that matter.

there has to be a balance and with the correct management a decent balance could be achieved.

i would be so frustrated if I was a Southampton fan, they should be a top 10 club if they hadn’t sold off their youngsters. They can’t be that bad off surely!

On 09/06/2018 at 22:00, ARLukomski said:

As a club, Notts are doing well. We are bringing in young players and developing them and they intern are helping us move forward as a club

But these are two models we cannot replicate

1) Crewe. They flooded their team with youth players too fast, too soon and it has done nothing for them apart from plunder them into successive relegation battles. I'm not saying them players are bad, I'm saying you can't rush youth players (especially lots of them) too fast, too soon into the first team

2) Southampton and Barnsley. Buying players then sell them on. It doesn't move the club forward. It eventually caught up on both clubs. Southampton eventually made a wrong decision in appointing Pellegrino. They can somewhat get away with it as they are in the Premier League. For Barnsley, they weren't so fortunate. Barnsley sold Holgate, Mawson, Winnall, Bree, Hourihane, Roberts and MacDonald all within under two years. Added to that key players such as Scowen and Watkins left. The club just dropped back into League One. 

I think in time & learning you will understand the model of both clubs.

Crewe's downfall had nothing to do with the players, bad management, the rumblings of the sex scandal long before it broke and the suicide of a well known someone due to the aforementioned scandal were the catalyst for their downfall.

As for Barnsley just how much revenue do you think these clubs generate against outgoings? You are talking about wage bills in the region of £30,000,000 p/a as an average. Where does this money come from? Thin Air? You also forgot their best player of the last 25 years that they sold in John Stones.

Southampton have / had a nice new ground to pay for, alongside at that level the game is an altogether different kettle of fish with average playes for that level earning around £2,000,000 a year, again, where does that money come from?

34 minutes ago, Northants Pie said:

I think in time & learning you will understand the model of both clubs.

Crewe's downfall had nothing to do with the players, bad management, the rumblings of the sex scandal long before it broke and the suicide of a well known someone due to the aforementioned scandal were the catalyst for their downfall.

As for Barnsley just how much revenue do you think these clubs generate against outgoings? You are talking about wage bills in the region of £30,000,000 p/a as an average. Where does this money come from? Thin Air? You also forgot their best player of the last 25 years that they sold in John Stones.

Southampton have / had a nice new ground to pay for, alongside at that level the game is an altogether different kettle of fish with average playes for that level earning around £2,000,000 a year, again, where does that money come from?

This is recent times. Crewe being in relegation battles since 2013-14 and Barnsley ever since they got back into the championship in 2016. Southampton also since they got back into the premier league in 2012

Just because it wasn't in the Beano until 2 years ago doesn't mean it hasn't been known or investigated by the Police for years. 

Remind me when did Gary Speed commit suicide?

Also regards Barnsley, do you suddenly believe that in the last 12 months the championship wages have sky rocketed? 

FFS i tried to lead you to the answer but obviously only the last 12 months count

I must point out that my reference to the beano was a reference to the sun newspaper, I call it thr beano due to its childish reporting