Premier League Academy Proposals

[Fosse Boy]

Found this article on another forum. Couldn't find any other corroborating sources but this is madness if true. We're one step closer to a "cut the cord and sod the lower leagues" situation if stuff like this is being seriously considered.

Parish sees the club's future around bringing on more talent through the youth academy and developing a new stadium. Developing players is not easy and he worries about the difficulty of maintaining any control over the investment in them.

Some Premier League clubs are proposing to invest in an academy school system to give them more time with young players, and they are negotiating with the FA to have the right to pull any player they choose out of an academy in a lower division, with a fixed compensation package which could hurt a club like Palace and deter clubs generally from investing in young players.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/markets/article-23903557-all-hands-to-the-parish-pump-as-palace-starts-to-rally.do

[FoxyPV]

Don't you know that football only began in 1992 when the PL started and therefore as the creators of fottball they can do whatever they fooking want

[Bert]

I blame Sky Sports.

[Ford Super Sunday]

I blame Sky Sports.

I agree, let's completely ignore the clubs who broke away and formed the Premier League, and the clubs who took the first PL TV deal, some clubs who are now in dire financial jeopardy. Let's blame Sky.

[The Doctor]

ridiculous.

Lower league clubs work hard and invest a lot of money into developing these players - no doubt they'll sell them on eventually but it's what they've got to do to survive and this is going to rob them of that and, should they end up against the wall and needing to sell to stay afloat, they aren't necessarily going to have players they can sell to raise the money needed without stripping their squad to the bare bones.

Mind you, look at the john bostock saga a couple of years back and you could be forgiven for thinking we're already at the "sod the lower leagues" stage. Yet again it's proof of the premier league being too powerful, to which we can only thank sky.

sky - ruining football since 1992.

[Fosse Boy]

I'd wager a hefty sum that wrong'un Phil Gartside is involved. He usually is in these affairs...