Originally Posted by
TK20
The reason why MikeSBs argument and Wartmans is so flawed is that if we don't spend any money on an academy and save this 750k, who is playing in the first team? Volunteers?
We would have journeymen like Chris Porter (2k a week) or Bowery (1800 a week) throughout the whole squad which would see our wage bill shoot up massively.
Compounding that is the fact there would be virtually no resale value in any of our players. So we spend more on wages for no return.
In terms of transfers it's worth remembering we sold George Nunn for 300k, we had 500k from clauses in Westwood and Hanleys contract plus George Cooper in recent times.
I expect Ng, Pickering and Kirk all to fetch reasonable fees in the near future also.
An academy is the only way to run a sustainable club without PL TV money. If you don't like our model, I notice Port Vale are doing very well down the road in Burslem.