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A major factor to all but the "top" clubs when it comes to recruitment is that very many "professional" footballers these days focus entirely upon themselves as being "self-employed" and definitely not "employees" of the club they sign for."Top" clubs attract players of skill AND ambition, and they cost a fortune beyond the "lesser" clubs' means. Lesser clubs, like us for decades, don't have that attraction (as a direct result of Kenwright). Instead "lesser" self-serving players are signed to as a minimum maintain their lesser, but adequate to us, status, whilst we no doubt pray they find one or more of these lesser signings imbued with the talent and ambition to be attractive to a "top" club, to whom we sell him/them in order to ease our/everyone's bizarre financial worries.The farcical financial "laws" that have for years now "governed" "professional" football – ha ha – have increasingly reduced the game I used to love to a bent farce.Sigh!

We\\\'re apparently loiking at a goalie from Bristol Mike even though we have Travers of a similar age.

They\\\'re a bit late coming into the financial app market so I suppose it makes sense in promoting brand awareness since they\\\'re not a \\\'name\\\'.\r\n\r\nDon\\\'t think they\\\'d like the reference to \\\'gambling on the stock market\\\' though MK.

Darren #108, Fellaini fits that description perfectly. Can\\\'t think of anyone else as I don\\\'t bother with other teams but there must be some, after all it\\\'s only Moyes that doesn\\\'t play youngsters.

Steve, Lookman made 48 appearances for Everton and played more than 1700 minutes in all competitions. He got plenty of opportunity. The club didn't want him anymore. He failed. He had a fine loan spell at Leipzig, was signed permanently and failed. He was loaned to Fulham, where he failed. He was loaned to Leicester, where he failed. Leipzig finally gave up on him and sold him to Atalanta for €15 million, barely more than Everton had paid for him five years earlier. For a player of that level of talent to not increase in value over five years is failure. But at Atalanta, he became a star. It takes some players longer to mature than others, and some never do. Lookman did it. Tony, I suspect that it wasn't his talent that Lookman's managers mistrusted, because that was obvious. I suspect it was his commitment. I can't think of another reason he'd have been moved on so often. And now he's scoring big goals in the Champions League. Way cool.