[Blue Baggie]

Easy solution...
Close the academy and save 2.5mil a year, if the massive clubs can just come along and take out most talented kids for next to nothing. Absolute joke ....

The academy has a big pool of support staff and they will have to be culled along with everyone else.
I did a count up of employed staff at our club and got to 157 with 3 vacancies. 
Amazing including the 4 recruitment staff in the academy and the other 8 in the club we can't get players - it's a joke either Jenkins / Lai will not let us spend any money. Either way all 12 of them may as well not be at the club. 
The window has been open from 16th of May and we have lost 16 players and signed a kid from Cirencester and a Bilic guy on loan.
I think we have a right to know what our recruitment staff are doing

We have almost £70 million banked atm and I am watching where we spend every penny of it.
This doesn't include sponsership - ticket sales - EFL money - Media fees - TV funds (Money used to run the club).
And don't anyone tell me we don't have it, unless they can show me where it's gone. I will not accept the tea ladies have had a pay rise. 
If it disappears the bean counters have had it away, just like last year.

[wba13]

Someone said close the academy to save 2.5 mill a year well keep it open I say ,remember we sold Roberts for 5mill and now it looks like Morgan Rogers will be sold for 8 mill .that is 13 mill on 2 players . Ido not like the idea of players being nurtured by us and sold on but can you really blame both WBA And Rogers that is an extreme amount that is being reported in the sun and Rogers will be on at least 20 grand a wk probably more. It is well worth keeping the Academy open it we bring on players to make us that sort of profit . Would rather we kept them but some of these deals suit both parties.

[Beefy 1965]

I would still close the academy
Just can't see the point of having kids from the age of 9 years to go for 250k .....
We have invested in them so money being spent on every individual as well as the running of it , yes we sold Roofe, Woods etc but they were then part of the first team,
However if this is true in our situation it's makes sense to put towards new players now , how much have we banked now,
4 weeks until the window shuts, best get moving ....
Another 8 million ????

#ManCity agree £8m deal for #WestBrom kid Morgan Rogers in the biggest transfer for a 16-year-old since Theo Walcott joined #Arsenal https://t.co/lCNq8IwdqZ

[SomersetBaggie]

I would still close the academy
Just can't see the point of having kids from the age of 9 years to go for 250k .....
We have invested in them so money being spent on every individual as well as the running of it , yes we sold Roofe, Woods etc but they were then part of the first team,
However if this is true in our situation it's makes sense to put towards new players now , how much have we banked now,
4 weeks until the window shuts, best get moving ....
Another 8 million ????

#ManCity agree £8m deal for #WestBrom kid Morgan Rogers in the biggest transfer for a 16-year-old since Theo Walcott joined #Arsenal https://t.co/lCNq8IwdqZ

Quite happy with the £8M for Rogers especially if there is a sell on clause.

[WBA-Josh]

Yes it’s bad that the kid is going and it makes a mockery of our Academy with all the time and effort spent on nurturing his talent but £8 million is a bloody good price for a 16 year old.

Good luck to him. I hope he makes it at City in the long-term.

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Also we need to keep our Academy going. If we close it then all the players from the under 18’s down and the hard-working staff will be out on their arses and that won’t be a good look for the club.

[Beefy 1965]

WTF is going on ?????

WBA U18s boss Mike Scott is leaving after 11 years to join Derby County as the Head of Academy Coaching.

#wba #westbrom #dcfc https://t.co/PsMoKLlEl1

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Mattwilson@expressandstar ....
Jay Rodriguez's £10m move to Burnley has been announced ..

[Mightybrom]

WTF is going on ?????

WBA U18s boss Mike Scott is leaving after 11 years to join Derby County as the Head of Academy Coaching.

#wba #westbrom #dcfc https://t.co/PsMoKLlEl1

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Mattwilson@expressandstar ....
Jay Rodriguez's £10m move to Burnley has been announced ..

Regarding Rodriguez, I could be wrong here but this seems to be the difference  between our club & others. Obviously  Burnley wanted him so they go out and get the deal done in 24 hours. Whereas  our board  say they have targets but take an age and seem to miss out. As I say I don't know what is going on behind the scenes, but it does get frustrating when deals can be done sharpish.

[Baggie_One]

https://www.kingfut.com/2019/07/09/hegaz...ahli-move/

[Baggievicar]

Last one out, turn out the lights.

[Northwalesbaggie]

Last one out, turn out the lights.

Let us pray Baggievicar that you are wrong. Perhaps you could have a word in the Almighty's Shell like for good luck in finding a replacement