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That's a good point: most of our lower league success stories have been bought for fees in the region of £100-200k. Peterborough seem to have a useful habit of producing players that can tear it up in League 1, and then selling them for millions.

Noone and Barnes were league 1 with Plymouth; Bennet had been at Wolves but never played 1st team and was mainly out on loan to lower league teams, Zamora was higher than us in division 2 (league 1) but couldn't get into the Bristol Rovers first team squad. All good examples of players that...

Glenn Murray, Ashley Barnes, Elliot Bennet and Craig Noone are all good recent examples of players from League 1 or lower that have been successful for us at this level and with PL teams. You could go back further and identify young lower league players like Zamora or Peter Wars. On the other...