Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
I think theres major benefits to playing or developing "our" youth players.
Theyre all quite obvious in such that they know the club, have the home grown local mentality and fhe fans of course will back them which encourages positivity. Also though every top side in the league has only ever performed well with home grown nucleus of local players.
We have a lot of england youth players all 17-19 years old. If we can get them into the squad even as mostly backup or rotation options this is a major strength in terms of the clubs mentality and culture.
The key is the quality of the players and optimistically Davies, Galloway, Connolly are 3 players who look good enough + dowell,ledspn,walsh may be good enough and others brought in such as Holgate,foulds and the chap we signed from northampton could be good enough along with the rest.
On paper it could be that we could see a huge number of these guys in the squad over the next 2 seasons
Thats more barca than madrid and if we achieved this then we create our clubs culture + have the local passionate players + use transfer windows to only sign the very best to compliment them.
Man Utd are now more real madrid and have lost their local players so now play u21s on occasion but theyre not top notch apart from the dutch right back....thwyre mostly imports.
Look at chelsea without terry and lampard or liverpool and arsenal without their local players.
