More Premiership Screwing of League Clubs

It's the sort of drivel I would expect from them all.

The big Clubs run up collective debts in the billions paying way over the odds for players who will never be worth what they're paid or what the Club has paid for them (a) because the big Clubs lack the self-discipline to pay them by results and (b) because the players and agents demand exorbitant sums far in excess of the player's demonstrable talent.

And then the big Clubs have the cheek to pontificate about valuing young players more accurately not on the basis of how greedy the small Clubs are, but on the basis of how successful the young players actually TURN OUT to be.

And when the reason why the small Clubs are greedy - apart from sheer greed itself - is precisely that the bigger Clubs are so desperate to corner the market that they strip the smaller Clubs not of proven talent - there isn't really any proven talent at that age - but of innumerable kids who will NEVER make the grade merely because there are so many of them.

Particularly if we also take into account the extent to which Premiership Clubs rely on foreign talent. It has been said that Clubs like Arsenal field teams which consist almost entirely of foreign players, yet Arsenal are notorious for snapping up young English talent which, judging by the constitution of their first team, has little or no chance of ever making the grade.

The smaller Clubs could call their bluff, of course, but as far as I can make out, they're no better.