Sorry if this has already been discussed. But you've got to think about all aspects, and I have been doing.
All the youth teams and the EDS. City and our owners have very wisely invested in the development of a general campus and training facilities that are second to none in Europe. This is the home to a whole range of youth teams, many of whom are doing extraordinarilly well. The process by which a fifteen-year-old is slowly and carefully nurtured is a complex one. The vast majority will never make it. Not with us, anyway. We know this. A few will. Right from the start, Khaldoon said that they were playing the long, patient game. I always totally approved of this and felt that it was one of the best aspects of the way the club is run.
But if we were to be expelled from all domestic competitions — and the risk is there, although it's complicated for the PL and the FA to do it, apparently — how can you possibly see Liam Delap or Tommy Doyle being played in any of the games in the Super League. See the problem? If anyone from the EDS already gets little game time with the first team, it'll now be reduced to virtually zero.
It flies in the face of the entire patient strategy since the takeover. What our owners have done just makes no sense.