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For most clubs the academy is there to make a profit from loan fees and transfer fees. Generating players is a bonus but pretty unlikely if you're a top club.
aggi-
Generating players is a bonus but pretty unlikely if you're a top club
For Spurs, there's Kane, Winks, Skipp, Walker-Peters, Edwards, Carter-Vickers, Onomah have all had games in the recent past. However, 'top club'...
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But would it? The possibility of finding home grown "stars" on cheap contracts would be better no?
Loans and transfer fees would be the fuel that keeps it ticking over whilst you produce a "star/stars" And the attachment/loyalty of academy players means you can keep them on relatively cheaper contracts for longer, because they want to play for the team they've supported/been with from a youth.
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cornelius_blackfoot
You could be right, but I thought the reason for having an academy was to produce players for that club. A happy byproduct of them "not" being good enough is that you sell them on, make a profit, keep the academy going and extend the timing of possibly unearthing a Kane, Pogba, Sterling, without having to shell out the transfer fee/wages.