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That's £70mill banked from City alone since 2009 and supposedly we're a club that can't compete with the big dogs in the transfer market.
All the money needs to be spent. 3 quality players minimum or Wenger out.
The OC wasn't bought for the youth team. Besides which, £6m is way more than the annual youth team pot.Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
I think there's a clause built into the club that insists we reserve a largish amount for youth development.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fist of Lehmann
We spend roughly 3M a year on youth development IIRC, whereas Barca spend something like 13M.
Found this article about it:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle7080571.eceQuote:
With half of their first team on parade as glittering alumni, Barcelona’s academy is widely regarded as the finest in the world — but so it should be, as it is by far the most expensive.
•The club devote £13.5 million a year to the process of finding the stars of tomorrow, a huge sum that dwarves the figure invested in youth development by Arsenal (£2.5 million annually), Manchester United (£4 million) and even free-spending Chelsea (£3.6 million).
•Barcelona’s money is clearly working as in the past decade their academy has delivered the cream of Catalonia (Carles Puyol, Xavi, Sergio Busquets) as well as the best players from all over Spain (Andrés Iniesta, Pedro) and the rest of the world (Lionel Messi, Bojan Krkic).
•In the same period only Iker Casillas and Raúl have come through the ranks at Real Madrid.
Arsenal The most productive academy in England, with Alexandre Song, Gaël Clichy and Cesc Fàbregas coming through the system.
Chelsea Invested heavily and signed several teenagers for large sums on top of their budget, but no first-team player has come through since John Terry.
Manchester United Have struggled to live up to the standards of the once-in-a-lifetime Beckham/Neville/Scholes generation, but still produce plenty of good players such as Jonny Evans.
From March 2010.
We/Wenger has a chance to build up again.......we now have a large amount of money........I think that a lot depends on tomorrow night but Hazards story has come out on BBC the same time as Nasris so there may be more truth about this.......not because it is the BBC but its more than a one liner, admittedly Lilles boss says no go.
if we wrap Hazard we need to move to the next area......CB I say because we have already lost two to injury so its a no brainer but I would like to see a striker and CM........the French guy that was recently mentioned and NQ has a good idea about Bellemy for a striker, he should be cheap as well........the next few days should be worth waiting around for
Chelsea make a bid for my cousin :upset:
Valued at 18M euros roughly.Quote:
15.28: BREAKING NEWS Sky Sports News is reporting that Chelsea have now made an official bid for Porto's Alvaro Pereira. He can play at left back or left midfield, and you'd have to assume his primary role would be the latter at Chelsea.
Re: Bellamy, Liverpool are supposed to be in for him as well as Seb Coates (another player we were linked with, a CB).
Lastly...
:lol: Frimpong :bow: :bow:Quote:
15.13: Emmanuel Frimpong doesn’t seem to be too impressed by Samir Nasri’s move to Manchester City. First, he tweeted that “Money is the Roots of all Evil”.
Jack Wilshere subsequently wrote: “Good luck to my friend @Nanas08 (mr Nasri) learnt a lot from him. World class player! Will be missed!" To which Frimpong replied: “Pffffff comeon Jack”
Bellamy :lol:
No excuses for not signing quality now, in a way this is a good thing, it allows us to start again and hopefully get it right this time.
We do need to bring in top quality players though, no more projects at this stage.