Quote Originally Posted by MikeSB View Post
No, not at all...

The total expenditure on the academy is well over a million and our contribution is £760,000 that has been reported. So its even worse that we can't seem to get L2 standard players on that sort of money. To me it's obvious that we downgrade to Cat3 and save at least 500,000 or more and the FA still contribute quite a large amount on top of that. Its a matter of opinion as whether Cat2 or Cat3 will make lads think whether to go elsewhere but nobody has given us names of local kids that have gone to Cat1 academies if they are right that more coaching results in better players that is...
Well there are lies, damned lies and statistics lol

Ok working on your premise £760000 over 5 years equals £3.8 million, in that time we have sold Powell, Murphy and Westwood equals £5 million plus add ons of approx. £1million oh and Clayton and Colclough another half a million