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Selling homegrown players 14:58 - Feb 2 with 682 views

I didn't realise that when selling an academy graduate the fee is considered pure profit. So offsets the purchases you make, hence why Chelski and Man City sell so many of their youth players to fund their big spending.

Am I missing something, or wasn't this always the case?

Selling homegrown players on 15:02 - Feb 2 with 654 views

Boston

I doubt they come anywhere near funding their buying players, maybe fund the executive lunch bills.

Poll:

Thank God The Seaons Over.

Selling homegrown players on 16:03 - Feb 2 with 525 views

Watford_Ranger

In the short term yes. Chelsea sell Gallagher for £50m (lol) and that’s £50m in the bank now.

They buy Brighton 30-game wonder, Ukrainian hair model and Argentinian World Cup winner who has actually barely played professionally for a combined £320m but all get put on 8 year deals so that £320m is only £40m this year*

The obvious flaw is you aren’t going to sell an academy graduate for huge money consistently and those signings are going to be £40m every year for eight years unless sold (probably at a loss). You can though create a human farm churning out players who’ll never make it with you but can be sold for £5/10/20m fairly regularly when in the past these guys would’ve probably been released at 18 rather than perpetually loaned out until 23 or so. Todd Kane was still hanging around there nowhere near the team until he was 25 and some mug club took him on.

*the good folk at Fifa or some other body limited this to five years to stop this being exploited as much.

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