Please explain how the academy is “bleeding the club dry” when it is completely funded as a separate entity by the Crynes and has no bearing whatsoever on the club’s finances
We were never going to get the'new coach bounce', when that person was already part of the old regime. We're never going to improve our style and tactics when the same coaching staff have been in place over the same period we've been in decline. Our academy is run as a mates club. This is why it's not producing anything exceptional. My sons team played them not too long ago and absolutely battered them. There needs to be wholesale changes at the club, from the coaching staff, to the youth development coaches. From the current manager (sorry Connor), to the DOF (not sorry Mlad). Like another poster on here, I've been involved with various football clubs for the last 30 years. The football world, at the best of times, is incestuous... We are full on Hillbilly with our youth development.
Be interested in seeing the details on that. Presumably we'll see the cash injection from the Cryne's in the latest club accounts? And all previous accounts if this is how it has always been done. I don't think we should close the academy btw, this is not an argument in defence of that, it's just I've never previously heard that the academy was funded this way.
Yes now you mention it I think there is also some funding via the premiership. My main point is though that the club does not fund the academy
I doubt that there will be anything about the academy in the club accounts. It is as I understand it, a completely separate entity.
OK then, if that's what you believe, what's the name of the company that owns the academy? There will be accounts submitted with companies house for that company and we can look at those.
The academy is run and funded by the club. With financial support from the Premier League courtesy of the EPPP agreement some years ago.