A friend of mine was a district youth coach in Oxfordshire, as a result he had a sort of informal contract with Villa whereby he'd recommend players. A perk of this job was that he attended meetings at Villa.
He was amazed that he - and people like him - were pretty much the extent of villa's scouting network. At the time we were being linked with Falcoa and my Mate said there was zero chance it would happen as MON did not have contacts in that continent.
On the positive side, if we can get better raw materials through our successful academy then the future, way in the future, could be really bright.
Based on what I'm told anything new/additional is an improvement.
