Everton are the new Arsenal.

Pilkz, is your brother called Rodolfo?

Mr Leiva wrote:

Pilkz wrote:He also said Kenny has never come down to the Academy since he's been back which is surprising.

Before he was manager, he worked with the youth kids. Could name every kids name, and know there background.

Swear I seen him down at some youth games last year.

Why does he need to go back, since it is in the good hands of Frank McParland, Jose Segura, Rodolfo Borrell, Mike Marsh and Steve Cooper.

Yeah what you said at the top bit is why i said to my brother "Are you sure he's never been down?"

Cam wrote:Pilkz, is your brother called Rodolfo?

No he goes by the name of Jose Segura.

Mal wrote:New Arsenal? We'll forget that every club in England signs 8-16 year olds regularly.

This.

Says alot about Bradford City when one of our youth players is worth more than the entire first team

The deal is £300k rising to £2m with a 25% sell on clause. We're still getting loads of money off the Cleverley deal with addons too

There's a huge difference. Arsenal sign youngsters because they want to, while sitting on millions upon millions in the bank. Everton are buying youngsters because they have to, they simply don't have the cash to buy anything else, and even then they probably need to sell someone.

One of Bradfords scouts who used to work for Celtic said the kids the best he has ever seen for his age

It difficult to judge the ability of someone so young, remember Pennant and that American guy who did some skills on youtube?

Laurencio wrote:There's a huge difference. Arsenal sign youngsters because they want to, while sitting on millions upon millions in the bank. Everton are buying youngsters because they have to, they simply don't have the cash to buy anything else, and even then they probably need to sell someone.

Thats what they say.

Everton have been doing well with youth development for a while now, but they've just gone unnoticed for it.

Mr Leiva wrote:

Laurencio wrote:There's a huge difference. Arsenal sign youngsters because they want to, while sitting on millions upon millions in the bank. Everton are buying youngsters because they have to, they simply don't have the cash to buy anything else, and even then they probably need to sell someone.

Thats what they say.

Read their fiscal reports, they have profits after tax and expenditures such as player transfers of roughly £40M a year for the last 3-4 years. They should have well over £120M in their reserves. Especially considering the lowest profit they have posted in the past 7 years was in 2007 (£5M after taxes and expenditures). There's definitely funds there.

theboss wrote:It difficult to judge the ability of someone so young, remember Pennant and that American guy who did some skills on youtube?

Freddy Adu?

Everton do just fine, the problem is whenever somebody comes good they quickly sell to United or City.