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So remind me again why any young player would join Chelsea?

randy andy
randy andy Posts: 5,457
edited June 2013 in Other Football and Sports
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  • RZA
    RZA Posts: 176
    They hate Agile development?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    what is that link? hope i dont live to regret opening that.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,006
    Eh?
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    $$$$$$$$$
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,173
    Curb_It said:

    what is that link? hope i dont live to regret opening that.

    Likewise.
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,966
    I would have thought they would have used a waterfall approach in the past but moved to an Agile approach...

    I want.... to kick a ball...

    so that...I score a goal

  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,457
    Not sure what happened there! Here's the correct link:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22687663
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,457
    To summerise, Chelsea didn't play a single English player under the age of 21 last season, neither did Man City. The premiership has lower percentage of U21 qualified players than any other major european league.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,173
    And yet the FA and the PL have changed the rules so they can cherry pick the best U21s and pay minimum compensation to the developing clubs. Words fail me.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,633
    Algarveaddick said:

    And yet the FA and the PL have changed the rules so they can cherry pick the best U21s and pay minimum compensation to the developing clubs. Words fail me.

    agreed to by the FL though


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  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,457
    Only after some gentle persuasion by the premier league

    "that's a nice youth team you have there, would be a shame if you lost those solidarity payments"
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,075
    LargeAddick said:

    Algarveaddick said:

    And yet the FA and the PL have changed the rules so they can cherry pick the best U21s and pay minimum compensation to the developing clubs. Words fail me.


    agreed to by the FL though

    Under duress.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    They still agreed it. I wonder if it's really bad for the game. Were there that many top class players in the good old days that developed in the lower leagues? Genuine question.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,247
    Wonga!!

  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,238
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMT663_jjI
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,457
    Here's the team from the 1990 world cup and the clubs they started at:

    Shilton, Peter L. - Leicester
    Stevens, M. Gary - Everton
    Pearce, Stuart - Wealdstone
    Webb, Neil J. - Reading
    Walker, Desmond S. - Forest
    Butcher, Terence I. - Ipswich
    Robson, Bryan - West Brom
    Waddle, Christopher R. - Newcastle
    Beardsley, Peter A. - Carlisle
    Lineker, Gary W. - Leicester
    Barnes, John C. B. - Watford

    Only two of those clubs were in the top flight in the 1989/90 season. Less than half had had prolonged top division presences in the preceding decade, so it's clear that in the past top class players came from a wide variety of clubs.

  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,174
    Mortimerician said:

    They still agreed it. I wonder if it's really bad for the game. Were there that many top class players in the good old days that developed in the lower leagues? Genuine question.

    What part of the word 'duress' did you not understand?

    Clue: similar process by which the FL 'agrees' to a reduced level of solidarity payments.

    The FAPL as a separate commercial entity needs to be abolished.



  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Seeing that England XI reminded me that when we played at Elm Park v Reading in the League Cup in the 80s they had Neil Webb, Lawrie Sanchez & Kerry Dixon in their starting XI.

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