I guess it comes back to 'what do the Leagues and Uefa want?

My understanding is that they want all leagues and European competitions to be 'more competitive', to develop the game in the weaker leagues, generate more fans, more interest and ultimately have a richer continental football culture.

With the key focuses on 'Grass roots development' - getting young local talent into the game in their specific region.
To then grow that talent into top quality professionals which can add value to their local club and national leagues.

This is where the whole PSR/FFP nonsense falls apart.

If that were the case, a player developed in an academy would be of more value in the first team of the club who invested in them than their sale value, as a line item on the end of year accounts, would be.

2 things had occurred due to these rules being put in place.

1 - Rich clubs hoarding all the top young talent.

They have the option to turn them into free first team players if good enough or they have all the next gen top talent on their books so sell off at will to ensure they maintain dominance over their respective leagues.

When the EPL & FA changed the academy system to Tiers A,B,C and the Mackems got an A and we got a B, it was clear that there was some shady shyt going on.

Whilst I appreciate development of youth potential is of paramount importance to the game, it has given the wealthier clubs yet another advantage by controlling the future of players and profiting from their future value.

If the Governing bodies were really serious about player welfare and development money would be spent on lower league and local clubs like the Wallsend Boys club and the mighty Heed to use those clubs as talent farms.

Restrictions would be put on the number of players clubs can have on their books, Chelsea for example had a business model that kicked off the whole Multi-club fiasco. The blues had over 120 players on their books at one time with over 90 of those lads never even seeing Stanford Bridge let alone kicking a ball in anger for the club.