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I'm inclined to disagree. I would like to that sort of thing bought to an end. The big clubs have had their cake and eat it for far too long in my opinion. It should be a case of use it or lose it. if you can't offer your kids a pathway through and they choose to leave, you should absolutely not be allowed to circumvent that by using a second club as a warehouse for said talent because you resent said club potentially making a fee on that young player that you couldn't be arsed to develop.
For the benefit of football, I agree.
For the benefit of Spurs, I disagree.
It can be beneficial to the feeder club as well to receive talented players that can be pushed their first team football. They receive a fee and they have the benefit of higher grade of players probably on higher wages than they can afford mostly covered by us. I would have initially thought a club like Rangers would have been ideal when Warburton was there with his footballing philosophy and Spurs links but I guess the constant upheaval there proved me wrong.