Morning all....lets begin

Crewe have produced some great players over the years they have had to because they have very poor gates.all the money they make pays the bills. If we get a name for providing a gateway to progress hopefully we can produce players for a profit and improve the team and the same time

 

Hope is the right word

 

As I say all the profits go to prop themselves up. That wouldn’t be the case with us

 

I don’t want the Crewe model, I want us to be promoted to the next level. I do not want our reason for existence is to develop young players for the benefyof other clubs.

 

Very naughty .

 

I’m not saying we’re in the same league (financially) as Peterborough but we are trying to pursue a similar strategy with recruitment and bringing in players with sell on value.

Like I said, this takes time to implement and time to learn and get right. There will be plenty of “misses” but hopefully a few “hits”. I like this policy far more than the old regime, sadly a lot of fans seem to have decided they don’t like change, they want the owners out and will refuse to listen to reason.

 

The strategy has a slim chance of success and that depends on how we are going to bring these talented young players to the club. I hope the owners get it right, but its gonna take more speculating and that means more funding, i'm not sure there is anything in the pot for that.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, Bradford city fans. Prepare for mid table/relegation battle. I see absolutely nothing to suggest otherwise. Nothing.

 

I've just rarely seen the strategy work. The only examples I can think of are Crewe getting to the Championship and Southampton to the top half of the PL.

You need a lot of luck to bring through a group of youngsters together, who are all good enough to take the next step up.

From a financial perspective, if we're spending £500k, extra a year, on youth/development squad, we'd need to sell a player for £2m every four years, just to stand still.

I don't see that happening.

The only benefit I can see of this strategy, is that you can under pay players until they are 24, because they don't have the Bosman ruling to fall back on. However, you might need 6 or 7 failures to get 1 right. You might have well sunk the money into a couple of wages for senior pro's.

 

Too early to say that yet.

 

Maybe but the projected budget and policy suggests to me that mid or lower table might be par for the course. Of course we all hope things will be substantially better than that but I think I'm being realistic. I've also seen City for over 4 decades and division 3 or 4 is our average.

 

Yeah I can’t disagree with anything you’ve said there. It’s a gamble putting all our focus on youth but is that what we’ve done?

We signed McCarten, Wyke, Poleon etc for fees and these were all players for the first team. They’ve obviously been signed with a view to improving them and selling them on for a profit but that’s different to youth/development signings like Pubus, Robinson, Hanson etc.

 

Thanks for the heads up.