Our youth academy

[ashton287]

Supposed new plans for english clubs to follow.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 66,00.html

An interesting part of how they would categorise the clubs youth scheme's, it says no one meets cat 1 and i thought we spend alot more than 2.5 million on our academy.

The expected cost for a Category 1 centre would be £2.5million per year, although Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore admits that nobody currently hits that level.

"We are so committed to adopting such a high level that none of the clubs meet a Category 1," said Scudamore.

Category 2 would be similar to 1, but they would have less time with the boys as they would not have to meet as stringent requirements on their education. But like Category 1 they would be allowed to take in boys and train them from the age of four and sign them at nine.

Category 3 academies, unlike 1 and 2, would not be allowed to get hold of young players until 11, whilst a Category 4 academy would be seen as a safety net picking up released players or late developers aged 16.

Wonder where our current program would rank then and it would obviously work in the bigger teams advantage basically giving them first refusal on youngsters as they would be able to sign them alot younger than poorer clubs.

[BlueinBosnia]

An interesting part of how they would categorise the clubs youth scheme's, it says no one meets cat 1 and i thought we spend alot more than 2.5 million on our academy.

I'm sure I read last season that we spend just over (or possibly just under) a million a year on the academy.