Ben Symes

And I think that weight of expectation and that pressure in England just is not there if you go to Germany.

And when you're a young player, you need to be allowed to thrive.

And you need to be allowed to experiment.

And we still don't know what Michael Noonan is going to end up looking like as a footballer.

He's only 18.

And we forget that if this was...

jeez I'm going back 10 years if you were 18 year olds 18 years of age and you're making an appearance in men's first team football it was the equivalent now of what like Max Downman is doing at 15 that's what an 18 year old was 10 years ago he's 18 in July 31st July yeah like Sebastian Hoonis obviously one of the

Yeah, Lorient.

There was another one of a player who went to Lorient.

Yeah.

It was the same sort of thing.

I unfortunately don't think so.

And I think Sligo have done a brilliant job in this and tying down on Elding for a little bit longer.

And Pat said the same thing by getting Mace Media to agree to an extra long contract meant they got what might end up being 4 million out of the deal.

I think unfortunately for Sean McGrath that's probably not going to happen.

Before we completely move on for just the Chelsea point, I have my own kind of, it's not even a personal thing with Chelsea in that the ownership structure is maybe not looked into enough, like Boli only owns about 10 or 11% of the club and the youth structure in particular, some of the signings,

I know what you're saying like they signed to sell them on but that's almost purely the model and is there really care for the players the likes of is it Cian Best I can't remember his name now Cian Best he was in another 19 captain I think he was at Preston he came to Bowes alone he played one game it wasn't brilliant I saw him I saw the game it wasn't brilliant he got released by Preston

and all of a sudden he ends up at Chelsea?

You couldn't hack it at Bohemians, you couldn't hack it at Preston, and then Chelsea sign you?

There's a lot of players like that where it's happening.