Thank you Txiki, Omar, Ferran

[Didsbury Dave]

It’s bloody amazing mate and there is a conveyor belt where one or two will be deemed good enough for the first team squad and the remainder have been given the best football education money can by and a brilliant chance of a career in football. Those that we let go are comfortably funding multiple first team purchased every season for the foreseeable.

I actually remember hearing that was exactly the business model when we spent £200m or whatever on the whole campus all those years ago. Now we are so admired across football that anybody who has come through our system is deemed attractive by all other clubs. There's basically a "City Premium" which I remember United having in the 90s and Barcelona more recently. It's like a feedback loop of success from the top of the playing staff to the bottom.

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

Agreed, plaudits should go to them for what has been on the whole an outstanding transfer and commercial strategy.

But in pursuing some of those commercial strategies they’ve effectively priced out many ordinary blues from attending matches and heartlessly forced others to move from their preferred section of the ground to accommodate the corporate mob so some brickbats are in order too

 

[Chippy_boy]

I actually remember hearing that was exactly the business model when we spent £200m or whatever on the whole campus all those years ago. Now we are so admired across football that anybody who has come through our system is deemed attractive by all other clubs. There's basically a "City Premium" which I remember United having in the 90s and Barcelona more recently. It's like a feedback loop of success from the top of the playing staff to the bottom.

Makes £200m seem like a pitifully small amount to spend for such and enormous return. Bit of a no-brainer in fact. Not to mention the draw for potential new signings who see the absolutely first-class facilities.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Makes £200m seem like a pitifully small amount to spend for such and enormous return. Bit of a no-brainer in fact. Not to mention the draw for potential new signings who see the absolutely first-class facilities.

That's the bit I forgot to mention: we have an incredible story to tell the parents of prospects too which feeds the whole loop.

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Not sure they come on blue moon mate.

They do. Trust me.

 

[urban genie]

I turn up and support them through the thick and the thin they should thank me for bothering, not the other way round.

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

I turn up and support them through the thick and the thin they shuld thank me for bothering, not the other way round.

How would you like them to thank you personally ? Lol.

 

[urban genie]

How would you like them to thank you personally ? Lol.

By buying the best players and entertaining me, they do that, so I don't need to thank them, me turning up amd the other 49000 or us is thanks enough

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

By buying the best players and entertaining me, they do that, so I don't need to thank them, me turning up amd the other 49000 or us is thanks enough

Don’t bother if you feel you are doing them a favour. You can easily be replaced.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

"....but if we sign Paul Pogba, who's had a better transfer window than us?"

I still laugh a that fat oaf saying that. 8-)