that's it then re the academy system. premier league gets it's own way again

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11661_7252955,00.html

threatening to withdraw £5million to the football league has clinched it.
i wish the premier league would just **** off.

 

Agreed.

Teams like Crewe (who have had an excellent system for years) will now go to the wall. Absolutely disgraceful if you ask me.

 

I cannot wait until the day, when the Premier League implodes and eats itself. Like Serie A pretty much has. If a Premier League club goes to the wall, then I would not bat an eyelid, for they would deserve everything they get.

 

the line from the link i posted which really makes me sick

is the fact that even if you manage to get the youngsters, and stop the bigger clubs poaching all the cream, bring them through your own academy and up to them being 17 and it will only cost them a maximum of £100k to lure them away.
after all the time spent nurturing the talent.

 

..and the one that made me gawp..

"There is always the danger under the new scheme that larger clubs will become more predatory but we hope we don't see that."

 

Another nail in the coffin. The PL is sh.it.

 

Me too, I just want it to implode and give us our game back.

 

so turkeys do vote for christmas!

I'm with you, the sooner the top clubs p*ss off to some kind of Euro league (where hopefully they will die a long lonly death) the better.

What with this and the proposal to scrap promotion & relegation the game is doomed.

 

In a way if they became a closed shop there wouldn't be the mad dash to scrape into the PL-Top of the Championship would be the goal and the PL could wither away in Europe

 

this is really wrong.... looking at it from the other way though....

there are going to be lots more footballers who reach the age of 16 and after being promised riches untold by man utd/liverpool/chelsea etc find themselves out on there ear because they didnt develop quite as quickly or as well as the big clubs thought they would...

 

I am thinking "will it really make much difference?"

Premier Clubs can still only have 20 players in each age group.

They have always got the best prospects anyway, and compensation for teenagers has never been great as potential is not a hard and fast commodity. Most young players don't make it to the top.

The new system wouldn't have made any difference with Rory Fallon, Neil Austin, Antony Kay, RNL, Butterfield etc.

At the end of the day, we will have a youth system that we can afford, and is appropriate for the size of the club. Can't see anything wrong with that. It's not as though the current system has produced an endless stream of fantastic young players that we sell on for huge fees, and are suddenly going to be snatched away for nowt.

Yes, it's no doubt PL clubs weilding their power again, but the world is not about to end.

 

Thing is, they claim its in the interests of English football by making sure the best talent gets nurtured at the best academies. Which is great, until they can't get a game in the Premier League and end up fizzling out like so many before.

The whole exercise is purely to save PL clubs cash in prizing players away from lower league clubs.

Arrrrggghhhh! I'm starting to despise English football.

I don't know what else to do in protest though; I rarely watch England anymore, I have cancelled Sky, and I never go to the pub to watch Premier League matches anymore.

 

And I quote: "There is always the danger under the new scheme that larger clubs will become more predatory but we hope we don't see that."

That'll be fine then. Hoping. Never stopped the *******s before, but so long as someone's hoping, that'll sort any issues out.

 

"There is always the danger under the new scheme that larger clubs will become more predatory but we hope we don't see that"

Fecking hell - what a quote. What planet?

I hate everything about the PL - I would never have Sky, would never pay PL prices - I hope to God we never get promoted back there because it would be horrible. This madness must stop somewhere surely?