Sigh .... you just can't answer a straight forward question can you ?
Lets make it easy for you and do it as a balance sheet format :
2007/08 External Funding for Academy= £138,000
2007/08 Club Funding for Academy = £xxxxxx
Fill in the £xxxxxx bit to justify your claim that "the lions share...
All you have to state is the facts - if that's hard work it's probably because you don't know what you're talking about.
Forget the player value etc ... I asked you to justify your statement that the Albion don't spend large chunks of their own money on the youth system.
We've got half way -...
Surprise surprise - still no figures !!! Just state how much BHA have spent on their youth setup for each of the last five years and how much money has been given towards it by other parties in each of those five years.
I'm struggling because you're providing no evidence - post the figures then !
It's strange that the league would appear to diagree with you - there are rules about paying a reasonable sum for players that have come through the youth system - persumably because it costs clubs a reasonable amount...
I'm not sure I've seen someone contridict themselves with so few words before.
If it's difficult to quantify how can you say they haven't spent a lot of money on him ( so a small amount for that matter ). Get your arguement straight !
You're the councillor aren't you ? It would certainly...