Football academies - Topics

What parents should look for in a local youth football club Can a spreadsheet predict which academy players will make it? Life in an academy hostel: homesickness and the boys who walk away What actually happens to a boy released by a Premier League academy at fourteen? Do teams genuinely develop academy players or just sell them on? Academy trials: what scouts really watch for in a nine-year-old Why parents should not sign the first representation deal offered for their child The gap between an academy education and a real school qualification Why clubs stockpile academy players and then release almost all of them Why academy age groups get trimmed at under-16 and then again at under-18 How much compensation does a club get when an academy player is poached by a bigger club? What parents should ask before letting a club academy take their child What an agent looks for before taking on a sixteen-year-old client The quiet recruitment side of summer football camps Do academy boarding schools take children away from their families too early? Does an academy place still lead to the first team or just to a loan in League Two?