Search results

Mix of both is my view as well

Have you had time to read your post yet. You know the one where your talk about... Saving the ACADEMY. Taking players from OTHER CLUBS. Spending money in RECRUITING youth The WHOLE thing is a waste of money. Their long term plan Is to show its NOT needed. Yes not sure how I got the wrong end...

Not at all I fully understand the concept. The point I am making is the academy is not just about comparing the Jones' verses the wilsons. We bring through a lot of other players who have amassed a great amount of appearances between them on very little wages. If you snap the academy and just...

Your post in case you have forgotten

Oddly that's not what you said, so you may as well do a nick clegg again

It's great but not really that helpful to the point of the OP. Does TM want to get rid of the academy as part of a long term plan

Not been patronising at all. Genuinely thought you were not aware that the thread was about..... whether we should keep an academy or choose to recruit youngsters in instead. Also that not keeping it TM's view and he is trying in the long term to prove its not worth keeping. As you were...

See post above You seem to be debating about restructuring it. I am debating that TM would not want to completely get rid of it.

For you OSB This thread is debating if TM thinks we should get rid of the academy and recruit youth instead

Transfer fees for these players are received in instalments over time. By the time we will have received all payments including clauses and add ons for Wilson, Maddison, Bigi, Sambou, Christie (even received a payment when he made his Ireland debut) I take it in that 4 million costs you are...

The thread that we are responding to is about 'saving' the academy. The OP is suggesting TM and MV would rather recruit youth ie Turnball's Jones's Stokes Thomas ect Than develop our own. I am pointing out how A) a club like ours can't financially go that way the academy saves us a fortune...

I have always said I am talking about the academy at any status. It was even cheaper for Wilson compared to the money he earnt us. So would Tony Mowbray make the decision about the academy or the owners? I will help you out, It's the owners which makes the thread a waste of time

No need to apologise. It seems we see things massively different. Are you saying you can only value a player based on his valuation at the point he leaves the academy? On that premis you would have to ignore the fact that if we had no academy we may never have had that player in the first...

At the start I made reference to the academy at whatever level (category) it is at hence including the likes of Wilson. Of course his value grew from playing in the first team that is the whole concept of the model at our level. Develop them into the first increase their value to the optimum...

Never ever said it doesn't Always said there are always people at the extreme minority. Which is why I was asking how many people have said SISU simon. Like you pointed out I only know of Grendel who made the other statements Minorities at the extreme ends of the scale Who in the whole...

Most importantly the average mangers life span for CCFC is less than a year over the last 15 years. So to make such a critical decision for the club, will rightly be nothing to do with the manager. It will be down to the owners who have been here for 9 years and say the club is not for sale...

Didn't Robins do both. Firstly say it was because he was promised a budget that didn't come. Then later say the council need to help the club more. He just lived off DMC and the players he inherited. His track record since showed he was nothing special.

Whatever level the academy is set at Wilson Maddison Sambou Christie Bigi All have raised vital life blood money for the club. We are possibly talking 7-10 million ( 10-18 years funding of the academy) Then think about the number of appearances from these lot on relatively low wages. Burge...

Maybe I am too wrapped up in here but I have never seen the words SISU Simon. So for me it's as extreme as Grendel's All of SISU's decisions are good for the club because they own the club. I just don't think the people at the far ends of the spectrum, should be given much credence. That's my...

"Academies are the lifeblood of football clubs, produce players who have aspirations of breaking through. It’s vital for a club like Coventry and I am hopeful we can come to a resolution .” TM July 22nd 2016