Evangelos Marinakis And Co

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OK - accepted that I know little of FFP across Europe - but that dwarfs the riches and allowable losses on offer in the Prem. Also I will be very interested with the EFL ruling on BCFC coming up. I am re-assured that the new owners have a handle of FFP and have some creative ways around it.
The biggest area that has suffered for us and where we are way behind is a proper player recruitment strategy. Brentford do a fabulous job in this area - so have Norwich and numerous successful medium-small clubs we should be on a par with. We are rightly proud of our academy but with our somewhat scatter-gun recruitment recently, this has suffered.  Leeds focus on youth development has shown it can be done. Maybe Karanka is to blame for this.

Spending on the Academy is excluded from any FFP expenditure as I recall, so a successful academy would be a good way to improve us given those constraints - either by bringing in youngsters at zero FFP cost, or selling on prospects if the club don’t want to play them in the first team. (Or maybe even something more creative on ascribing costs to it?)