Has money ruined football?

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The Serie A system spent 84 million in wages for the 100 players (five per team) with fewer minutes.
It is the first item to work on and to correct for a more sustainable football.
 
Go on son said:
Whats the story with brentford not having an academy/ underage system? Is that true or did i hear wrong
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Brentford closed their academy about 4 years ago.

What they do now is to look at players at other academies who are unhappy as they are not making the progress they think they should get or look at youngsters released from other academies and take on the best youngsters (typically aged say 18) they can find and run these players in a B team to play other sides usually outside a youth league system.

So for example, Paris Maghoma thought he should be more highly rated at Spurs than he was and left to join Brentford. Paris Maghoma signs for Brentford B

They have picked up some decent youngsters over the last few years - but curiously lost a few good youngsters (mainly aged less than 17) when they closed their academy and players left to join other clubs to continue their 'scholarship' elseawhere - inc;uding several who joined Spurs. So net losees versus gains of decent youngsters I'm not sure they have made any net gains of good players from closing their academy and running a B team.

Where I think they have gained is seeing good youngsters at lower league clubs, buying them and developing them - obvious examples being Oliver Watkins bought for a song (circa £2m) developed over say 4 years and sold to Villa for some £30m, Ivan Toney released by Newcastle (bad mistake), picked up by Peterborough (Barry Fry) for circa £650k, polished for 2 years and sold to Brentford for alegedly £5m plus up to £10m in add ons. Probably worth £30m - £50m now ?

Brentford''s skill in buying players is supposed to be very much data based analytics (moneyball)...... and they are doing very well at it.
 
Newcastle won’t be thinking it has……
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