Reading make Mapps enquiry (From This Is Local London)

• "I am glad we are a selling club and the long run I think it benefits the club. We are a developing club, one that identifies, develops and then gives a chance to young talent. This means that when the next generation of talent is coming through we are seen as a club who will give youth a chance, will provide a sound footballing education and then gain a fair fee for selling the player onwards and upwards. This is the pact that players buy into when joining the club either at youth or developmental level (like Danny Graham for instance). Sean Murray turning down Man City seems to have been playing the long game, knwoing that he will get a far greater chance to shine at first team level in the championship and then get his move a little later on. The alternative approach of going early to a bigger club didnt work for Harry Forrester and it could be fairly argued nor did it work for Chris Eagles who had to step down on loan and then permanently to a champioship club.
  My concern is that financial fair play, if enforced correctly (which I am not sure it will/could be) might driv down the compensation that a club such as Watford would be able to reasonably ask as other clubs will have to work within their budgets eventually.
  
  Someone at the club has been doing something right for some time at youth/academy level - so well done to Tom Walley, Kenny Jackett and all who have followed them (too many to name) who dont get the individual limelight but do a great job for the club and the players"
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