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February 21, 2018, 6:55pm
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I'Anson made a career for himself at Spain. Played most games in Valencia B's play-off campaign last season earning a transfer to Segunda side Granda but has sinced moved to Real Murcia in January. He also played for Real Oviedo and several matches for Elche in La Liga. Not bad if you ask me.

People missing the point though when they think of how much can we sell for? It is about getting players into the first team and them playing for us. On that note, players like North, Wood and Bore were good value for money because we got 50+ i.e at least a season of first team football from them. Further to that when you have lads who have come up through the youth set up it creates a bond between the fans and the time because the players are invariably local or living locally. I can see why Wycombe do it, they are so close to London it must be difficult to compete, and whilst we don't have a huge catchment area we can attract players from as far down as Boston (Butterfield is from Butterwick) and as far across as Lincoln/Scunny/Sheffield and over to Hull rejects if we want to. The potential is there but it needs to be run properly.


If I'm not mistaken I'Anson was the last English player to play in La Liga


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IIRC Brentford also scrapped their youth set up.

How many lads are in Towns academy? If it starts at say Under 8's (?) up to Under 16's and each age group has 15 lads 9 x 15 = 135 players.

That's a lot of local lads introduced to GTFC and when you add parents, grandparents that represents a fair few that you have the chance to indoctrinate into GTFC.

If we get one or two through then all the better but it isn't a huge cost. A fair percentage comes from the FA and then lots of fundraising covers a fair amount of the rest.

If we didn't have a youth set up it isn't as if we would get that money for the first team is it?
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