I do understand the point you are making. As someone who is Sussex born and bred myself, I'd love to see a succession of local youngsters coming through the system. It's easy to forget that we have two who are regular first team players and one who played for England U-19s at the EUROs this...
You've answered your own question there.
Remember how we first learned about Garcia? I'll remind you - Does anybody know why this kid is wearing an Albion shirt?
It was from a story in the Spanish press that both Barcelona and Real Madrid were after the 15-year-old kid (when he had, we now...
Happy to discuss your "evidence" that Albion are ignoring local talent.
Albion have taken on a total of 80 first-year scholars over the last 8 years.
You obviously know how many were Sussex lads. Let's see if your numbers match mine.......
You've gotta love agents, haven't you? :rolleyes:
At the time of this article, the extent of this kid's "career" was training (not playing, but training) with the U-17s and U-19s of a Norwegian third tier (south) side. And yet:-
Yeah, well maybe he needs to actually play a match against a...