Harry Souttar’s the only one I can think of.

As above Harry Souttar is the only one of the guys who left before really featuring much, who went on to have a decent career. He spent 7 years at Stoke, a few of them farmed out on loan, any money we made was from a sell on, and as long as I have a hole in my arse he'll never be a 15 million pound player, but money is crazy down there, so why not try to work that to our advantage?

That's maybe the route we go down, If a player is snapped/tapped/pried away early, say training compensation is 400k, we accept 250k, but with a 10-15% Sell on attached to his time at his new club, If that can be done?

In most cases we'd get nothing, but 10% of any future fee when it could be 15 million, is better than selling a player a year and getting 150k extra.

lifesanocean wrote:

JerryDungle wrote:

Harry Souttar’s the only one I can think of.

 
Right enough and that was 10 years ago we sold him. He was one of the last products (as well as Jamie Robson and Ross Graham) from the old Stevie Campbell-led youth system that was run on a shoestring under Stephen Thompson.

We've made money out of the current academy system under Mark Ogren and a string of 'Academy Directors' (who all seem to move on after about 1 year to 18 months) but nobody since then who has moved South has made the grade at the English club they signed for.

Times move on but I'd suggest Utd got far more footballing benefit from the system we had under Campbell. Or was it just he was a much better coach?

 
We’ve never recovered from binning Stevie Campbell, and the manner that Thompson and McNamara did it in was a disgrace. I don’t know what he done differently but whatever it was helped produce young players who were actually ready for first team football by 19/20 year old.

stucam wrote:

I suppose the other question is, have we ever signed one on the rebound?  Or is it a case of burned bridges.

 
Kieran Freeman