Some of the biggest losers here will be Academies like ours, there’s no point trying to develop young players, the majority of them who won’t make it at top flight level. The payback for investment in Academies is future sales of a few players to lower league clubs to offset the cost of developing all the players within the set up.
There’s plenty who don’t make it but they have at least been given a chance to fulfil their dreams with fantastic coaching and education.
These new rules will have the effect of driving down transfer fees at all levels, probably making Academies to potentially run at a loss. However if a player like Cole Palmer is sold for big money it’ll still add to revenue but that money will not be able to be reinvested on an alternative player.
As a consequence of this bullshit player fees will plummet in the next few seasons, will drive down the quality of the PL and Europes elite will benefit, they must be pissing their sides watching the most successful domestic league in the world tearing itself apart.
It’s on a par with Gerald Ratner’s famous off the cuff comment:
“How can Ratner’s sell jewellery so cheap?”
Gerald
“Because it’s all crap”
Ratners didn’t last long after that.