EFL Trophy

and that idiots use the word "United" for other bunch of wan kers
 
The club should make sure that they use the rules to the maximum to allow U23, U18 players to fill as many of the places as possible in this competition. It's a stupid competition now, so let's use it to get the younger players up to speed for the matches that matter.
 
The club should make sure that they use the rules to the maximum to allow U23, U18 players to fill as many of the places as possible in this competition. It's a stupid competition now, so let's use it to get the younger players up to speed for the matches that matter.
The trouble is that the club earns a lot of money for winning games and progressing.
So a club that is losing £1m to £2m pa wont want to throw away the opportunity to win some money ....
 
The trouble is that the club earns a lot of money for winning games and progressing.
So a club that is losing £1m to £2m pa wont want to throw away the opportunity to win some money ....
Well you could say that developing the younger players is probably more reliably likely to produce a return. Either through helping the first team win more games in the more senior competitions (where the returns are greater), creating a load more saleable assets or protecting the existing senior players from having to play (thus being fresher and again making it more likely that we would do well in matches that matter more).
 
Well you could say that developing the younger players is probably more reliably likely to produce a return. Either through helping the first team win more games in the more senior competitions (where the returns are greater), creating a load more saleable assets or protecting the existing senior players from having to play (thus being fresher and again making it more likely that we would do well in matches that matter more).
No I totally get that but... if you are losing that amount of money and struggling to pay the wages you are going to want to get the decent prize money.
As some have suggested the problem with this Cup is that the lower league teams take it seriously as there is significant prize money funded by the PL.
 
Sarge - they aren't competitive games. They class them as 'non-competitive' to avoid having to pay appearance fees to the Wonderkids of the all-conquering Premiership.

I would think any game especially against the scum would be classed as competitive.?
 
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