Although the sentiment is great for fans, there is very little point in having an academy at the minute. Under the EPPP, top clubs can essentially poach any promising players for peanuts - if it works, great. If not, they can just sell them on to Championship/L1 for a small profit. There is very little risk for high reward for them.

And as others have mentioned, we are the least attractive proposition for the local talent pool. We can't compete with Forest, Leicester, Derby or even Mansfield anymore. It's quite clear our business plan is to sign young up and coming players either from the leagues below or this one and move them on for a profit and re-invest. Whether we like it or not, that's the direction our owners are taking and we have to respect that.