Quote Originally Posted by george_kaplan View Post
Two things spring to mind.......agents, money in any order you wish. Ohh and a couple of well known scummy clubs snap em all up and hide em away so no one else can have em!
Money ye, in a way. Agents? They have them in other countries too.
It's because they can't, with a very few exceptions, get to move on to regular football at a good standard.
Look at our recruitment policy last summer.
Us, an average (budget-wise) championship club can go to Spain, a country with at least 50 players who would get in our national side, and buy outstanding players for our level for a fraction of what he'd cost here. An English Samu would be 15-20 million quids.
It'd be worth some of those U17 lads who've done so well out in India going abroad and getting regular first team football, imo.