Damien Delaney
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3,691 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Sep
Damien Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They spent 30 million on their academy.
They're getting young players into their academy.
They're buying cheap, selling high.
That was the overall game plan.
You can't get upset now when you're executing everything that you said you were going to do.
So, I mean, the manager signed up and I'm sure he was told, look, this is the club that we are.
You know, we're going to buy players out of the championship for reasonable money.
We're going to give them the first team, increase their value and sell them.
We're going to get our academy kids through because we are now hoovering.
We're a category one academy in South London.
We're probably the only one south of the river.
So we're going to hoover up all that talent that was going on.
I mean, BT did a documentary.
I think Rio did it.
But all the talented players that came out of South London, the likes of Jadon Sancho, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, you know, it is an app, you know, that cage football they have there.
The population in Croydon is 1.1 million.
So that's what he went after.
And the academy is stacked with players that are trying to get into the first team now.
And there are players coming through.
It probably happened just a little bit quick this year insofar as, you know, as they're going and he's going.
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