by Paul Keevil » Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:51 am
The cost of a Cat1 Academy averages £5m per year - of which the FA provide £1m assistance
The cost of a Cat2 Academy averages £3m per year - of which the FA provide £1m assistance
Basically an extra £2m per year or £38k per week.
Cat1 academies, insofar as I am aware, can poach players from Cat2,3,4 clubs - (They are not allowed to poach from Cat1)
If we were Cat1 not only could we avoid clubs poaching our promising youngster but we could also do some of the poaching ourselves
When you think of the weekly investment that went in Tomlin, Bacuna and Vassell - surely it would be better to have put that into an academy??
Maybe £2m of the Sala money, if case is awarded in our favour, could go towards the Academy - Maybe even name our Academy after Emiliano ("The Emiliano Sala Football Academy")
If we are spending £3m already surely it makes sense to go the full distance with a Cat1
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