Simon Jordan & Gabby Agbonlahor DEBATE If Clubs Like Chelsea Are Damaging Academies 👀 | talkSPORT

Simon Jordan and Gabby Agbonlahor discuss if clubs such as Chelsea selling their academy players is damaging academy set ups.

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[rbar]

I actually feel sorry for Gabby. There’s no way he should be scheduled with Simon. He’s completely out of his depth.

[CorporalFriendlyShark]

‘Simon and Gabby debate…’

Even without watching a minute of the video I can guess how that one ended. Simon probably flummoxed Gabby with a three-syllable word.

[robsta]

“Spending your money like drunken sailors.” Gotta love Simon!

[WhatInTheDeepestShadeOfFeck]

PSR is arguably making academies more important

[stevenduvall]

Simon had it spot on right at the start. Owners managers stop spending stupid money on players😂😂 it is as simple as that!

[Flipmode]

Chelsea's academy has produced more quality players over the last 10 years than anyone. Even if you don't make the side, you end up at Madrid, Milan, Newcastle, Palace, West Ham

This is content for idiots

[stuartgould]

We sell at least 5 academy players a season at Man City, replace them with Haaland, last season we sold 11 for 93 million total that paid for our signings kovacic nunes etc that’s how it is and if they’re good enough they’ll make the first team, end of

[Samlfc]

Dewsbury hall the 26 year old academy graduate 😂

Who’s next Jessi lingard.

[FisHLoC]

Chelsea have sold academy players for decades. It was literally romans business model.

[Samlfc]

Love a talksport debate. Basically before you watch it. Gabby will have a really valid point.. Simon will throw loads of fancy words at him and Gabbys point becomes invalidated.

[chuckles]

Thousands of kids will never play for the club they are at the academy for. And it has always been that way.

It only seems to have become a problem now that young players are going abroad rather than stay in the premier league. That seems to be the thing that has got the media to push this story.

If Gallagher went to another PL club, I would bet, the media would be talking about how it was great business.

[_Forza]

This topic has gone braindead. The fact Gallagher is the figurehead pushing this narrative is hilarious. The guy is average on a good day.

[denisako]

Most PL players are from other team's academies step down from your high horse

[SwiftGifts-niqz]

When Gabby speaks everyone stops to listen.. it's inspiring

[chiefkc]

Academy players are important to the identy of the club. They help fans connect to the club even more.

[lfcspectre]

Lord Elite Simon = Top LAD Proper Clobber 💯 Facts
2 + 2 = Yellow Gabby

[Jinx-igfz]

People are up in arms about Conor Gallagher like if he's the second coming. This type of thing happens all the time. Clubs buy and sell players as if they don't care. A new manager come in and the star man is now rocking the bench. Players sign long contracts and only play 5 minutes when the game is on the line if ever. It's nothing new.

[hikedeco]

What Simon is saying is all nice and good until you get injured

[Chris-ozqx]

Chelsea over the last 10 years have sold Bertrand, Tomori, Guehi, and Abraham from their academy and made profits on Salah, Lukaku and De Bruyne, so their business model is not new. Previously however they had good enough of a squad to still win things, now they don't. Gallagher is better than all of their midfielders bar Caicedo, when they sold De Bruyne in 2014 they still had Lampard, Ramires, Willian and Mikel in their midfield.

[taktikz]

I don't know if I can articulate my opinion well enough, but here I try... if you have players coming through your academy that are good enough for the first team then in effect you are saving money, I'm a Liverpool supporter, so the best example of this I can give is Steven Gerrard... in today's money, if Stevie G was coming through the Liverpool academy right now, you would not sell him - you would know he is certain to be a first team player, future captain, world class... you can tell. So in essence if you didn't have Stevie G coming through the academy you'd probably have to spend 70million at least to acquire someone of that ilk.

Then you have academy players coming through that you know aren't quite good enough to step up to the first team on a regular basis, they'll be a squad player at most, they'll give you a couple of 9 out of 10 performances but overall they'll give you 5-6/10's most weeks, if you have say 10 of those players coming through your academy and you can sell all of those 10 players for 10-20million each to mid table teams or championship teams coming up, then you're giving yourself 100million to go out and buy the Stevie G type player that's not coming through your academy - plus those academy players that are moved on are going to have better PLAYING careers because they're not sitting on the bench being bit part players who only get their touches of the football on the training pitch.