Christian Lavers
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2,515 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Christian Lavers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
Large amounts of money.
And these are players who are owned for practical rights or their rights are owned through this.
And that that is not generally the way that we look at youth sports in America.
Right.
Owned like this.
So let's also as we're as people are screaming about pay to play and pro development, as we're talking about how that is actually funded.
There is a different side to that.
I don't want to call it a dark side, but there is a dark side and an impact.
And it creates a self-reinforcing ecosystem of investment at the lower level.
Correct.
That is rewarded through performance and incentives as a player, which encourages more investment at the lower levels.
And by the way, that investment is not just encouraged at the lower levels because the biggest clubs in the world are investing in their academy, but they're obviously, you know, if you're one of the big five or six in England, you're going to spend it, you know, at a different level than somebody in.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Right.
You're going to generally, you're going to get the best players at some point.
You're just going to buy them because you can't.
I do think that's an interesting take that
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