See the bit in red below.

Kai Hutchison, 15 years old, not even signed his first professional contract, paper talk that Wolves are in for him. Boy hasn't done his exams yet and his head is likely being turned, It doesn't add any value to the debate that the academy is bearing any real fruit.

You'd hope his parents would be advising him to stay put, learn his trade, but even the chance to go down there, at his young age, will likely bring riches and rewards that he'd get nowhere near even as a regular first teamer at us,

David_Blunkett wrote:

Yeah, was just in regard to the local lad did good kinda thing some folk seem to romanticise.

By the time a kid is good enough to play for our first team, they're already on the radar of bigger clubs, even Lewis Neilson, who was nowhere near ready to be a starter, his career has floundered, was spotted and picked up.

There has to be more to it that just cost.

Rules, regulations, grants, memberships, benefits etc all must play some sort of part as on the face of it, it certainly doesn't seem cost effective.

 

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