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@cornelius_blackfoot
Clint, its not about the southamptons selling Bale's for ten million, its about selling players for 250k or 80k or a million, which pays for the academy itself and puts money into the coffers of the team once they've broken even.
If you produce players yourself, you only have to dip into the transfer market if and when necessary, and can ship out high earners if your budget doesn't support them for the cheaper younger, youth team product coming through.
West brom will be looking long term into this, because as good as you have been in finding value in the transfer market and having a coach who has put out a strong attacking team, lose a couple of players over the summer, have a couple of loan signings take a bit too long to settle and the money spent on transfers to be wasted and you are into wigan territory...
Every team should have a viable youth policy, it seems madness not to..