Amaechi, that's the one! He was fairly highly rated, wasn't he? But we couldn't get him to sign a professional contract in the end. We might lose out on a few million eventually there too, same with Josh Dasilva, but it's still hard to see how it's going to bother us massively when we have Nelson, Saka and Smith-Rowe from the same cull of players.
Lately everyone is getting so jumpy about youth players who leave us, and I get it to some extent, but we'd do well to remember that we have actually kept everyone who has shown extraordinary promise. If even half of the current lot turn into first teamers the academy will have saved us hundreds of millions of pounds, literally. How much is Saka alone worth right now on the market? Losing a few million on Mavididi is a drop in the ocean by comparison.
