Kerr Smith was on loan for Barrow 1st half of the season, played only once ("looked like Bambi" according to one punter on Barrow's FB page and was punted back to Villa in January.

Agreed

Also agree.

Goodwin has no interest in developing our young players or giving them chances.

Add to that England having so, so much money and hoovering up anyone that takes one good free kick or heads a ball clear and it is utterly pointless. Even happening to Old Firm these days.

I would much rather spend the money taking gambles on later developers in the lower leagues of Scotland - something we have actually been very good at over the last 20 years.

Two things are definitely going to happen here.
1 Hutchinson (& his parents) will have far more money and financial assets to their names in 3 years time than they would if he has signed a contract at Tannadice.
2 The player has  reduced his chances of making it in the professional game.

From the times I’ve watched him he does have a lot of potential but that’s what it is just potential. He stands out atm because he is big and strong however IMO he doesn’t have a good first touch and awareness .

lifesanocean wrote:

Stillliving wrote:

Two things are definitely going to happen here.
1 Hutchinson (& his parents) will have far more money and financial assets to their names in 3 years time than they would if he has signed a contract at Tannadice.
2 The player has  reduced his chances of making it in the professional game.

From the times I’ve watched him he does have a lot of potential but that’s what it is just potential. He stands out atm because he is big and strong however IMO he doesn’t have a good first touch and awareness .

His attitude is also questionable.

Other laddies will catch up size-wise too. If he's got genuine quality he will make it. If all he's got is pace and power he'll be found out down there.
 

 
A 16 year old with a questionable attitude,  who'd have known 🤣

redford_must_score wrote:

Motherwell just sold a young Academy lad to Brighton.
Earlier today this was posted on a Motherwell forum

"This. As much as its depressing from a sporting level that this happens, financially it's certainly not all negative - banking six figures for kids who might turn out nowhere good enough as adults adds a fair bit of certainty to the planning budget. Part of a balanced portfolio and all that jazz"

Sound familiar?

In Motherwell's case they can afford to be a bit more philosophical when they lose young players.

They are fan owned and they know with confidence no-one at the club will benefit financially from the sale of any young player, only the club will, and will likely be re-invested in further recruitment. See also (Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen etc).

In our case in any young player sale, it goes towards paying off the massive debt owed to Mark Ogren (which he created himself).

Depressing af.