Football

Going to Stamford Bridge on Sunday, anyone know where Clive sits?

keeping a squad/team together and adding extra pieces can be the difference between winning a league and mid table scrabble

I think you mean winning the league and avoiding relegation

Your trolling is like your wallet - lightweight!

At least his trolling sees the light of day

He sits with all the posho's, Septics and Ruskies

That doesn't really narrow it down

West Lower I think

Wear red trousers. He'll find you.

I was being kind!

Just realised you were talking about Leicester. Precisely. Pretty much the same squad that finished previous season strongly, couple of new additions and a tactical tweak and suddenly winning things is possible.

You can look at the work that Unai Emery has done with Sevilla, they still lose players at the end of the season (not as many as when he was managing Valencia), but the core stays the same, and they reinvest the money wisely, and they want to win trophies, so they are in the final for the 3rd Europa League in a row.

Southampton in the same time have produced...Rodriguez

They bought Jay Rodriquez from Burnley, for quite a bit of money IIRC.

What age was he when they brought him? I'm not as much of a southampton fan to know where all their products come from, so can't claim too much knowledge of how many "true" academy products they churn out.

I'm hoping in a decade or so that the Spurs academy is as good..

23 or so, he'd already played upwards of a hundred first team games for us and they paid about £7m.

apologies, definitely not an academy product then...

Usually compromise means the club sells the player for large profit and then spunks said large fee on shite replacement...

Isn't that what your lot and Liverpool are famous for?

Bale
Walcott
Oxlaide Chamberlain
Shaw

Any others?

Mark Dennis?

Mick Channon
Matt LeTissier
Rod and Danny Wallace

Francis Benali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_F.C._Academy#International_players

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everton_F.C._Reserves_and_Academy#Past_Academy_players

every team's done it, what did your lot spend the lampard/ferdinand/cole money on?
Sure there's some godawful buys in there..

To be honest of the seven or so we brought with the bale money, Eriksen, Chadli, Lamela, have all contributed to our current success so... (shrugs)

That Everton one is completely flawed and unfinished

Garbutt was from Leeds
Baines was from Wigan
Mustafi was from Schalke

To name a few...

No Hibbert, Osman, Rooney or Barkley on there either?!

The Ferdinand money famously went on upgrades to a stand.

The Lumpolard cash went on covering debts and the YJC money was just frittered on Don Hutchison's pension plan and Nigel Quashie.

Nigel Quashie, ouch. If it makes you feel better we paid £2.5m for him, in 1998.

He came to us, played half-a-dozen or so times as a sub and then picked up a foot injury that kept him in the treatment room for nearly two seasons.

Last seen hanging out the back of women in Iceland whilst playing in their top division.

Holds the dubious record of being relegated with every Premiership club he's ever played for.

Brighton suffering four injuries in the play of semi and down to ten men before conceding a second goal. Now that is a what you call a hangover blow from not getting automatic spot. Sheff Wednesday maintaining their 100% play off record.

our current success

Remind me what you've won?