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I don't think anything will come of these lads.

I don't blame them for taking the money, but I hope they're careful with that money because the best thing it will do is set them up financially for a career post football.

The era of Premiership clubs stockpiling players will not be one that history judges well as having looked after those players.

If they want to have successful careers they need to follow a different path - the John McGinn, the Andy Robertson route.

These players will get clubs after leaving their current clubs but their careers will be on the wane by then and the descent to part time football will be fairly rapid.

Players need to be playing an optimum amount of competitive football at the best level possible from about 18/19. Spending years training, with the odd U21 game and the odd loan spell will do nothing for them. Only very few will go on from that sort of background to have a respectable career imo.
Funny you should say that, as I heard , that when young players go to play for teams in the London area, that the jump in their wages, are largely taken up, by the expense of higher rents, and living standards, reasonable standard young players, still don’t get huge money, until they break into the first team, and quite often find , they had more expendable income , when living at home.
But I suppose that could be labelled at any young person, living out with their home.