A box of Krispy Kreme donuts every morning for the scouting team

Damm, I thought you were going to say he'd been sacked

I'm a blind man, i'm a blind man, now my room is cold,
When a blind man cries, Lord, he feels it from his soul.
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I have been asking this many times on these pages .He and his staff should be scouting for young up and coming talent but no all we are getting is ex players or players like Ayew

I bumped into him a couple of weeks ago and ended up having quite a lengthy chat; was more than happy to talk about AWB’s move and stories of old players etc, but wouldn’t give anything away on incomings.

Interestingly mentioned that Parrish didn’t want to let AWB go at any cost, and that Dougie and Roy had to convince him to take the deal; felt the money was too good to turn down, but they also felt it set a bad precedent to all the other kids they are trying to push through the academy if we are going to deny them an opportunity to move on if they really flourish.

AWB had approached Dougie and Roy to say he wanted the move and they felt keeping a young player from making his dream move would be harmful to our recruitment/retention of young talent in the long run.

Agreed. You only have to look at Charlton they have a conveyor belt of young talent that progress into the first team and then get sold. Granted most are not PL standard and Charlton fans are not happy they are sold so quick but the point is well made. If I was a young lad I would rather sign for Charlton than Chelsea.

We need an edge in our recruitment if this is the carrot so be it.

One more point

Consider the following players from the Crewe academy who went on to forge careers at top level :
Rob Jones, Danny Murphy, Dean Ashton, Neil Lennon,David Platt Etc.

Crewe also had the likes of Geoff Thomas and John Pemberton who left for a bigger club ! And Bruce Grobbelaar was at loan at Crewe when Liverpool signed him.