Everybody quotes Brighton and Brentford and bemoans our inability to match them in their club organisational set up and particularly scouting prowess.
Well here's some news for you, 80 odd other clubs in the football league are in the same boat as us. It looks like they have stolen a march on how to set themselves up to unearth new talent. But, like everything in football, things will even themselves out in the end. Others will catch up - either by emulating them and doing it better, or finding other ways. That's the way the cookie crumbles. The top dogs will always be the top dogs. Yep there will always be the odd Newcastle case with new silly amounts of money..... like there was Man City and Chelsea before them, going back to Blackburn in the 90s and even Wigan 20 years ago punching crazily above their weight.
The ridiculous money in football now is sapping my love for the game. If Blades weren't in it I doubt I would even watch a PL game on TV. Its a fuckin pantomime.
I pray for the day the money bubble bursts - let it fuck off to Germany or Italy or wherever. I just want my football back.