You’re right though it is all about money. When I started watching football the very best players always ended up at the top clubs but it wasn’t like now where every club has 25 players, soon as anyone has a few good games they’re linked with everyone. Players get snapped up and paid more money than they could ever dream of to go to big clubs and be part of their squad rather than play every week somewhere else
we can’t even keep our young players anymore which was all part of our DNA. Max Alleyne made his Man City debut at the weekend after being poached by them at 16, we’ve lost plenty of others that way too. Bigger clubs offering them money that we can’t or wont offer, if you’re then why wouldn’t you take it?
what is sad about our current set up is we play right into that with our self titled player trading club. Every player is signed with a view to what we can sell them for, which doesn’t even make it a football club it’s little more than a human stock exchange. Buy low sell when stock is highest. Results almost seem secondary these days .