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Won’t be popular but I think it makes sense to shut it down.

In every youth team the chances of anyone making the breakthrough are so slim, this can mean keeping 8 or 9 players on so the 2 or 3 we think can make it have team mates to play with. On top of that the landscape of youth football has changed and if we do bring through a particularly special player the bigger clubs can just take them for a relatively small amount of money.

I would do away with the academy and look to pick up good 17 and 18 year olds released by the biggest clubs.

I think that’s what Brentford did and to me it makes complete sense.
This is Brentfords model

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/05/brentford-ditched-their-academy-premier-league-outcasts