Everton Youth Teams Thread

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There is an increasing race to the bottom in terms of 'smaller' clubs fielding younger and younger players as that is a very easy and effective way to put them on the market. It's rife in South America and getting worse in Europe as well.

Not saying that against Loney and Graham specifically but it is a growing trend.

It’s a fair point, particularly in Scottish football, I don’t know much about S America. The RS signed right back Calvin Ramsay from Aberdeen about 2 years ago after he’d started for Aberdeen as a 17 year old, cost about £5mill. Still young but out on loan to Wigan this season. I suspect that we haven’t spent much on those two, so relatively low risk, although reports from both clubs suggest we’ve taken our usual fair minded approach to dealing with them.