In the absence of Transfer News, a great read from TSF

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But it was the reserve-team side of this operation that was so impressive. The club bought players, who never had any chance of playing in the first team, for a few hundred thousand pounds before selling most of them on for over £1 million.

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There's always the chance that he fails to impress in his cameo roles and subsequently doesn't deliver at Championship level either. Result= bargain basket at budget price?

Though I guess these clubs can easily afford to write off these occasional losses