A bit of perspective

[lappinitup 629]

With the recent sale of Josh Murphy and all the speculation around Jamal Lewis, let''s take a look at a look at our neighbors who face similar problems to us.....

"Speaking back in August 2016, former Town head of academy recruitment

Steve McGavin – who is now at Norwich – said: “Unfortunately, with the

Premier League, we’ve created a monster. It’s like a runaway train that

no-one knows how to stop. The money at the top end, as we all know, is

huge and it’s filtered down into the Premier League academies."

“I won’t say the clubs’ names, but one Premier League club recently took

another Premier League club’s best Under-nine, Under-10, Under-11 and

Under-12. The financial package that the Under-nine got was mind

blowing."

McGavin continued: “In recent times we’ve lost two boys. In both instances the players and the families wanted to move."

“One thing EPPP has brought in is that accessibility for

clubs. If a club wants to sign a player and the player and his family

want him to go then there is very little you can do about it."

And to bring it up to date.......

Ben Knight – the 16-year-old widely viewed as Ipswich Town’s most promising young player – is set to complete a £1m move to Premier League champions Manchester City next week

The diminutive England U16 forward, who hails from Cambridge and has

been with the Blues since the age of eight, has been hailed as a very

exciting prospect at Playford Road for some time.

It’s understood that he was the player academy supremo

Bryan Klug was referring to when he said the Blues had a young player

who could ‘potentially be the best I have ever worked with’ at the

Supporters’ Club AGM last year.

And so it goes on throughout the game. It''s impossible for any club to stand in the way of young players tempted with big money offers from bigger clubs, more now than ever before. Blaming clubs or their owners as ''unambitious'' is a futile exercise.

So, if we do lose Jamal or any of our other promising youngsters in this window, let''s be realistic about it and remember, we do the same to other clubs.

[Big Vince 318]

But the Manchester City now is not the same as the Manchester City in L1.

How many of their players now get lured away by bigger clubs?

It is about success. If you are successful you can dictate your own terms. Failure on the other hand invites predation by others. Delia is that failure with horns on.

[lappinitup 629]

A dreadful thought has occurred to me Vinnie with all these youngsters being lured away, what if a bigger club comes in for nephew Tom? [:S]

[TCCANARY 263]

[quote user="Big Vince"]But the Manchester City now is not the same as the Manchester City in L1.

How many of their players now get lured away by bigger clubs?

It is about success. If you are successful you can dictate your own terms. Failure on the other hand invites predation by others. Delia is that failure with horns on.[/quote]

Does that mean we have to wait until Norwich hosts the Commonwealth Games before any upsurge in our fortunes?

[Woodman 92]

A certain Angus Gunn was lured away fro us by Man City if I remember rightly...

[cornish sam 942]

That was before EPPP came into force I believe and might have been helped by us having just sacked his dad and him getting a job up there...

[Big Vince 318]

[quote user="lappinitup"]

A dreadful thought has occurred to me Vinnie with all these youngsters being lured away, what if a bigger club comes in for nephew Tom? [:S]

[/quote]

He''s already been listed for a free transfer as have the rest of the Board.

[Icecream Snow 761]

A woman in my office and her husband have a 11 year old son, they live in the Leicester area, and for a while their son was on Burton Albion''s books. They did the drive for a while (which is about an hour away), but couldn''t keep it up. It''s crazy now with both the numbers of kids getting funneled through a system that ultimately produces very few professional footballers, and the incredibly young age at which they start.

Then you''ve got the Man City''s & Chelsea''s of this world hoovering up kids that with never play for them. Even at a late stage, like Patrick Bamford, who cost Chelsea £1.5 million from Forest, and sold to Middlesborough for £5+million without ever playing for them. For the bigger teams, it''s arguable about generating cash by flipping them.