It's a good sign that the quality of our youngsters must be improving. But depressing that we've dropped to a point where we can't stand on the way of one of our young lads wanting to join Watford. 8 years ago we got promoted on Watford's pitch.
Would we get any compensation for this? Why would we release him before the end of the scholarship if he is good enough for the league above? At the very least we should have kept him on his current deal and forced Watford to pay us for him.
Exactly. I think we sold him for about £0.5 million but made £9 million from the 20% sell-on clause when he went to City. Possibly our best bit of business ever.