Premier League?s search for young talent has left the market overheated and failing

Brexit and PSR are contributing to a spike in the fees and wages offered by big clubs for ****agers, but is this stockpiling really raising standards?
The discussion during a meeting of Premier League sporting directors this year turned to academies and the amount of money spent on homegrown ****agers. The market for players as young as 14 has turned wild, according to industry figures.
?Some wages are astronomical,? one agent says. A sporting director at a top-flight club struggling to keep their best youngsters away from the richest teams in England says: ?It?s a nightmare. We have to offer 14-year-olds scholarship contracts just to protect ourselves.?
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