It's clear Englands youth has technically flourished in recent years, IMO, we should pick up every young kid we can in key areas up to £25M, and cycle the rest to foot the bill, attepmt 6 or so this summer, maybe two foreign and 4 of the best U23 English. Then another 2-4 the following window, if the squad still needs more running and youthful will.
This is the England u18 side who beat Wales a few weeks ago, which is a typical squad ...... and the number of those players not already at a top club really is not large (highlighted in
blue for ease).
England (4-4-3): 1 Hubert Graczyk (Woolwich), 18 Ethan Ingram (
West Bromwich Albion), 4 CJ Egan-Riley (Manchester City) , 6 Jarell Quansah (Liverpool) , 21 Callum Doyle (Manchester City), 16 Aaron Ramsey (Aston Villa), 8 Alex Robertson (Manchester City), 7 Karamoko Dembele (Celtic), 10 Shola Shoretire (Manchester United), 19 Daniel Jebbison (
Sheffield United), 11 Louie Barry (Aston Villa)
Substitutions: 13 Tobi Oluwayemi (Celtic) for Graczyk 46', 2 Daniel Oyegoke (Woolwich) for Ingram 46', 3 James Norris (Liverpool) for Doyle 46', 5 William Fish (Manchester United) for Quansah 46', 14 Carney Chukwuemeka (Aston Villa) for Ramsey 46', 15 Alex Scott (
Bristol City) for Robertson 46', 17 Samuel Edozie (Manchester City) for Dembele 46', 23 Kwadwo Baah (Rochdale) for Shoretire 46', 20 James Balagizi (Liverpool) for Barry 46', 9 Liam Delap (Manchester City) for Jebbison 46'
So I make that 3 players from that squad which are at clubs who might sell youngsters for the right money.
We are better off if we can recruit at a younger age and get them to join our academy ...... and anot easy as we are always competing with not only Woolwich and Chelsea in London but also ManCity et al.