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So my message to Rafa is simple, if you want the best young players from lower division clubs, don't buy them and stick them in the reserves, buy them and loan them back to the lower league teams, or don't buy them at all.

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The first clause of your statement is perfct. Buy the young kids from the lowertier clubs and loan them back. This will certainly help improve their game and has been described as a successful means to develop young talents in Spain who otherwise would struggle to make a breakthrough at the bigger clubs. BUt your second clause sounds so so naive. Well,if Liverpool don't go and get X from that third division side,then Man U will and if Man U don't,then Chelsea will. That's how it works in football,or rather in the business part of it. If you are a 17 year old football aspirant playing for an obscure little club in the south west of England and the out of the blue,the likes of Man U or Arsenal come knocking at your doors,you do find it really so very,very tough to refuse the offer,even when you know that you might find life in a bigger pool too tough for your constitution.

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Subhankar Mondal is a football writer for www.goal.com.

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