I 100% know for a fact parents of kids that live out of the area are put on scouting courses so they can be paid as scouts to then ferry the kids to Manchester 3 times a weekwe don’t actually know what city pay for players, what if some of its off the books?
they are very well run, but it’s easy to be when you brought you way to success let’s be honest there Academy would’ve been extremely well funded, they split the costs over than multi club system for other things. They also have multi clubs to try and test things. The whole system is corrupt and yes, they’ve greater finding talent, but you don’t know how many bribes how many Scouts have paid off the books. No one has any idea really what they truly spending