[theo_luddite]

We've always done it, we always will at any level. Even though we've got this super-dooper Play Station/X-Box type footie software that tracks players from kids ages upwards all over Europe, it comes down to how you use it and what you are looking for. Then there's the human element. If your face doesn't fit with the current coaching staff you're out - or as good as - no matter what the stats say.

In fairness, most clubs let a few go that they later wish they hadn't. Wenger was supposedly tearing his hair out this past week when he found out that Harry Kane had been at Arsenal as a kid.