[spireitematt]

I agree sort of Matt about the Jamie Vardy thing, but all these clubs were employing decent size scouting operations. They could've looked on the internet and found out about Tendayi .....

Jason Puncheon, Yannick Bolasie, Albert Adomah ........ They're doing as well as all the publishers who turned down Harry Potter.

The Premier League clubs send scouts abroad to look at young foreign players and then sign them and stick them in there development squad, youth team or U21s and they probably make 1 appearance in the League Cup and you never hear of them again until they are playing in Championship or below.

Yes they could have found out about Tendayi on the internet but they didn't because most Premier League clubs are focusing on buying players from abroad which doesn't help home grown players in England progress or let them test themselves at the highest level as they become stuck in the reserves or bench warmers.

When Alex McLeish was manager of Rangers his son was playing Football Manager and advised his Dad to sign a young player in Barcelona's B team who he thought was going to be the best in the World. The Player? The player turned out to be Lionel Messi.

I know that teams and managers use the Football Manager players database to find out about up and coming players and players abroad.