Greed knows no bounds.

[Thracian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15381652.stm

[The Doctor]

****ing hell, I actually agree with Barry Fry - this is definitely a disgraceful idea.

Edit: been voted through. Really bad for football but so long as the prem gets to keep it's illusion of being vastly superior then who gives a shit

[Super_horns]

Seems like the Football league were forced to vote for the changes due to the threat of losing academy funding.

Not good news if you rely on youngsters coming through and being sold on...

[Tielemans63]

The big clubs really don't give a shit about lower league sides do they? This will be bad for football - we'll ended up with more Tom Taiwo's. Who you might say? Look him up and you'll see what I mean.

[Soar Fox]

The big clubs really don't give a shit about lower league sides do they? This will be bad for football - we'll ended up with more Tom Taiwo's. Who you might say? Look him up and you'll see what I mean.

Remember that a couple of years back. Didn't he sign for Chelsea along with another player?

[DB11]

The big clubs really don't give a shit about lower league sides do they? This will be bad for football - we'll ended up with more Tom Taiwo's. Who you might say? Look him up and you'll see what I mean.

I just searched him on Wikipedia. What is bad about that? Chelsea signed him so the selling club (Leeds) got quite a bit of money, and now he's playing for Port Vale.

[The Doctor]

I just searched him on Wikipedia. What is bad about that? Chelsea signed him so the selling club (Leeds) got quite a bit of money, and now he's playing for Port Vale.

I'd assume because his career was somewhat hindered by a move to Chelsea, where his development would have been set back by a couple of years because he didn't stay at a club where he had a chance of breaking into the first team and getting experience.

[purpleronnie]

[Tielemans63]

I'd assume because his career was somewhat hindered by a move to Chelsea, where his development would have been set back by a couple of years because he didn't stay at a club where he had a chance of breaking into the first team and getting experience.

That's exactly what I was getting at.. Okay, Leeds got a few quid but not that much - a lot of it was performance related however he has never played for Chelsea. He went there with another player Michael Woods who has suffered a similar fate.

There's a story that Tom Taiwo didn't bother to turn up to training for 3 days and it was only at the end of the third day that anyone at Chelsea clocked he was missing. The point is that big clubs stockpiling young players and letting them fester in the reserves may well prove disastrous for our game.