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That's the whole thing, though. Chelsea had youth players and were developing more, but they've all been forced out of the team. And, Chellsea bought young stars and stagnated their careers by putting them on the bench, whereas if any other team bought them, they'd be starting. A team with...

Or you could make all clubs supporters unions, like Barcelona or Celtic.

That's the whole bloody point! How is it irght that Madrid should be bailed should have that kind of favouritism? The government did bail them out and they've used that to capture teh biggest names in football. Now, Chelsea were bought by an investor with big funds, it's no less illegitimate...

You're right, UEFA can't really dictate that kind of thing to the clubs, but I think that something ought to be done.

I think that you're misssing the point. If teams do buy star players, then they will play and the youngsters won't, that's not really debatable. I think that UEFA is more angry (as am I) that Chelsea also bought players like Joe Cole, only for them to sit on the bench wasted.

Come on Denco, don't act so naive. You and I both know that Real has the favour of the King and they derive funds from that relationship. (I'm trying to make it sounds as legitimate as possible, but it isn't.)

Bah. Real's only objective is furthering Perez's ego.

And the point that I am making is that relying on your youth system does no t make you a weak club.

Right, so it's been eight years since they won the cup...how long has it been since Chelsea won it? What about Arsenal?

But, isn't that the whole point? I mean isn't the point that a team can, in fact be very successful in europe on their youth system alone? Ajax has proved that.

What are you on? The wuality of their youth is suffering? Let's look at the stars they had in their squad last year that they got from the youth system: Andy Van der Meyde Rafael Van der Vaart Nigel de Jong Yakubu John O'brien Zlatan Ibrahimovich Mido Maarten Stekelenburg Trablesi...

Hold on their killer. You are, of course, forgetting Ajax...

Indeed. It would have seemed that Mutu, Hasselbaink, and Gudjohnson formed a great striker corps, not ot mention the various youngsters that have been subsequently loaned out...

Guti.