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Development/Youth Squads 2025/2026 Thread - U18/U21

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AjcW

AjcW

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Anyone know when PL2 stuff usually gets announced?

Feels a bit late to have no fixtures or anything announced yet. 

Ryy

Ryy

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Our National League cup fixtures have been revealed:

 

Braintree Town (A) 12th August 7pm

Wealdstone (A) 16 September 7pm

Forest Green (A) 21st October 7pm

Boreham Wood (A) 25th November 7pm

Ryy

Ryy

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2 hours ago, AjcW said:

Anyone know when PL2 stuff usually gets announced?

Feels a bit late to have no fixtures or anything announced yet. 

They’ve been released today. We start vs Liverpool at home on Monday 18th of August 7pm 

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st albans fox

st albans fox

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1 hour ago, Ryy said:

Our National League cup fixtures have been revealed:

 

Braintree Town (A) 12th August 7pm

Wealdstone (A) 16 September 7pm

Forest Green (A) 21st October 7pm

Boreham Wood (A) 25th November 7pm

Defo going to Borehamwood !

davieG

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Armando Broja's move to Burnley means Chelsea have made more than £250m in sales on players from their academy in just three years.

Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, influenced by the pressure of the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules (PSR), have accelerated a strategy that began under their predecessor as owner, Roman Abramovich.

In this case, Broja's departure to Burnley is worth up to £20m if all add-ons are met, taking the potential total banked from academy player sales this summer to £41.2m.

Defender Bashir Humphreys also moved to Turf Moor for £14.7m, while Ishe Samuels-Smith moved to Strasbourg for £6.5m this summer.

Further sales are possible, with forward Tyrique George and England international Trevoh Chalobah not ruled out. Josh Acheampong has also attracted interest from Bournemouth but is considered not for sale unless a substantial offer is made.

The £41.2m slice of incoming funds is part of the £225.5m raised from player sales this summer alone.

But because academy players count as 'pure profit' in the club's accounts, their departures have provided Chelsea with greater financial flexibility - helping fund £250m in new signings, with transfer fees amortised over the five-year span of long-term contracts.

Interestingly, Burnley have contributed over £55m to Chelsea through player purchases this summer, also signing midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu for a fee believed to be over £20m, despite being officially undisclosed.

Sales of Noni Madueke, Djordje Petrovic, and others have boosted Chelsea's bottom line, with the club set to surpass £300m on incomings this summer.

The club are in talks to sign Manchester United's Alejandro Garnacho, while RB Leipzig's Xavi Simons remains a target ahead of the transfer deadline on 1 September.

 

 

 

How come they can get so much for their Academy players when we get next to FA.

st albans fox

st albans fox

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12 minutes ago, davieG said:

Armando Broja's move to Burnley means Chelsea have made more than £250m in sales on players from their academy in just three years.

Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, influenced by the pressure of the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules (PSR), have accelerated a strategy that began under their predecessor as owner, Roman Abramovich.

In this case, Broja's departure to Burnley is worth up to £20m if all add-ons are met, taking the potential total banked from academy player sales this summer to £41.2m.

Defender Bashir Humphreys also moved to Turf Moor for £14.7m, while Ishe Samuels-Smith moved to Strasbourg for £6.5m this summer.

Further sales are possible, with forward Tyrique George and England international Trevoh Chalobah not ruled out. Josh Acheampong has also attracted interest from Bournemouth but is considered not for sale unless a substantial offer is made.

The £41.2m slice of incoming funds is part of the £225.5m raised from player sales this summer alone.

But because academy players count as 'pure profit' in the club's accounts, their departures have provided Chelsea with greater financial flexibility - helping fund £250m in new signings, with transfer fees amortised over the five-year span of long-term contracts.

Interestingly, Burnley have contributed over £55m to Chelsea through player purchases this summer, also signing midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu for a fee believed to be over £20m, despite being officially undisclosed.

Sales of Noni Madueke, Djordje Petrovic, and others have boosted Chelsea's bottom line, with the club set to surpass £300m on incomings this summer.

The club are in talks to sign Manchester United's Alejandro Garnacho, while RB Leipzig's Xavi Simons remains a target ahead of the transfer deadline on 1 September.

 

 

 

How come they can get so much for their Academy players when we get next to FA.

Kdh

barnes 

chilly

all academy products 

 

the ones that aren’t good enough for our first team squad aren’t going to drive a fee of any note 

 

Not the same at Chelsea where many of their academy products can’t break into the first team squad but are decent prospects and in some cases already good players. 

davieG

davieG

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34 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Kdh

barnes 

chilly

all academy products 

 

the ones that aren’t good enough for our first team squad aren’t going to drive a fee of any note 

 

Not the same at Chelsea where many of their academy products can’t break into the first team squad but are decent prospects and in some cases already good players. 

Nyoni?

st albans fox

st albans fox

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Just now, davieG said:

Nyoni?

17 y o 

had never played a competitive senior fixture when he left 

 

the guys Chelsea are selling are 20 y o +  and are exposed in senior men’s football. Our academy boys over 20 just aren’t on that same level. 

 

davieG

davieG

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56 minutes ago, Ryy said:

 

I presume from that we've given them some £s and maybe agreed sell on %

Chelmofox

Chelmofox

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3 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Kdh

barnes 

chilly

all academy products 

 

the ones that aren’t good enough for our first team squad aren’t going to drive a fee of any note 

 

Not the same at Chelsea where many of their academy products can’t break into the first team squad but are decent prospects and in some cases already good players. 

Which is all about £110 mil. 

 

And we are yet to realise the value of the current crop.

Stadt

Stadt

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23 minutes ago, filbertway said:

Man, remember Jordan Ibe going for 15m. Master salesmanship

Not a worse deal than paying £12m for Ward

AjcW

AjcW

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6 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

I live about 2 minutes from Seagrave now so I might start going down for the academy games. Are the tickets easy enough to get hold of? 

Yeah they usually put at least half a year on sale at a time :) 

 

Ive been a few times it’s good fun. 
 

Some games randomly “sell out” very quickly. I assume this is when another team has asked for a reasonably behind closed doors game. 

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Foxy-Lady

Foxy-Lady

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13 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Which is all about £110 mil. 

 

And we are yet to realise the value of the current crop.

£110 mil is not to be sniffed at but dont forget....they are the only 3 significant academy player sales we have had in the past 4-5 years.

 

Chelsea have realised £41 mil this summer alone....so that doesn't include fees received for previous sales of Mount, Hudson-Odhoi, Guehi, Tomori, Loftus-Cheek, Solanke, Gallagher etc, etc...

 

Im not convinced our current crop of youth talent is going for continue producing the revenues that barnes and Chilwell did......especially now we are no longer such an attractive/high profile option for young talent.

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