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Lottery of the tribunal system? 4:20pm on 13 Jul 2008 I read your previous post before it was removed.
Surely if England to have a half decent team, these youngsters need to play regular first team football in order to develop themselves. Do you really think Bostock will play many first team games for Spurs next season if at all? He may be at a bigger club, with better players etc...but regular first team football is surely more beneficial for Palace at this stage of his career than in the reserves at Spurs. If Bostock had stayed at Palace for a year or two and then moved on i would have had no complaints whatsoever. And this is the problem which filters up to the national team. Premiership clubs are grabbing these talented up and coming youngsters from lower league clubs and sticking them in the reserves, thus they dont play regular first team matches and dont get to fulfil anywhere near their potential. Chelsea signed two young players from Leeds a couple of years ago, Michael Woods and Tom Taiwo. Have you heard any mention of them since they joined? I havent.
What good is it for the national team to keep allowing this to happen? The pool of English players each year is becoming smaller and smaller.. youngsters are being lured by the money of the big clubs, smaller clubs arent being properly compensated and most of these players just seem to disappear off the radar.
As for Jordans comments he is spot on. He pumps money into this year in, year out..and to see Bostock taken away and getting peanuts in return, i think he has every right to say what he did. What is he supposed to do, just say 'ah well' and just move on..and just accept things the way it is. I know Jordan is not everyone's cup of tea, to put it kindly, and there has been times where ive cringed the way he has spouted off, but he does speak sense from time to time and is straight to the point, and at least someone has the balls to speak out.
Lottery of the tribunal system? 3:30pm on 13 Jul 2008 For clarification, i was referring to the post above which has now been removed
Lottery of the tribunal system? 3:29pm on 13 Jul 2008 the last two paragraphs of the above post is typical fan in the Premiership showing breathtaking ignorance and demonstrates perfectly all what is wrong with football in this country. Why do you think Football League clubs ask a lot of money for their players? All of the money is in the Premiership, the majority of clubs outside have to sell to survive, so of course they will ask for as much money as possible as they can, who can blame them. The problem all comes about because of the lack of money being filtered down.
Quite frankly, blaming this on the FL clubs is ludicrous.
As for Jordans comment, he is spot on..why would a club run an academy and develop youngsters and then a big club comes in and takes them for peanuts. It costs a lot of money for a club to run an academy so when you see players getting taken from under your nose and not properly compensated then there really is no point.

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