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Andred why did you leave London, where are you orginally from? Also saying players of any intelligence will want to play with our players is right but also can be said of the Chelski, Arsenal and Spurs players.

I'm a scouser, I lived in Liverpool for 18 years before moving to Warsaw, Berlin, London and Zagreb. I'm now back in Liverpool and as much as I love this city, it's part of me and it's in my blood, I can unfortunately confirm that it cannot compete with a thriving Capital city like London and the same can be said for many northern English cities. Sadly, the only exception would be Manchester but even that doesn't come close to life in London in terms of culture, entertainment, health care, education, politics. Everything that's worth happening, happens in a capital city of a country and not in averagely sized cities in the north west and that's how it will always be.

I'm sure all of this comes into a footballers considerations, along with how much money they can make of course.

And I agree with Andred, I can't stand Stan Collymore. However, I think there is an element of truth to what he's saying here.

maybe the best way to counter this would be build one of the best academy's in the world! if you bring through a large amount of talent from the youth ranks they are n=much more likely to stay loyal to the club. I works for Barcelona

box, have you seen the academy Manchester City have planned? They've got planning permission and everything so it won't be long before their academy system is light years ahead of the rest of the premiership clubs.

That includes 15 pitches and a 7,000 capacity stadium, along with sleeping facilities, gymnasiums and a school for the youth team players. It's actually rather scarey.

that's impressive, Liverpool's academy only caters for 200 students, where as this one is 400. the size of that plan does incorporate the first team training areas as well.

It’s the way forward and was one of the reasons why a lot of academies were looking at us. We have one of the best (if not the best) academy in the country and we be benefitting from it between now and the next 5 years

Roy Hodgson can speak them all.

Correction

Roy Hodgson can speak gibberish in them all

"Fluent" gibbewish.