I tell you which non league player is getting attention from league teams such as Norwich, Leicester, Colchester United, Brighton, Huddlesfield: Ashley Nadesan a sensation playing Horley Town [combined counties league premier division] . He's 21, bagged 50 goals and is imho definitely better than a Cameron Jerome.
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Nadesa...ail/story.htmlhttp://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Nadesa...ail/story.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ns-season.html
Premier league sides, especially struggling ones need to take a few risks. Villa have a relatively big wage big in relation to their almost relegated league position. Villa and Newcastle tried buying proven quality and it's backfired and been financially costly. How would have taking a gamble on eager beaver non league starlet have made things worse? At worst AV go down, which they are anyway, their wage bill would be lower (non league players will take any amount as it's an improvement on their non existent non league wages - eg Chris Smalling is still massivley underpaid at Man U even though he left his non league days behind him at Fulham, but he's just happy being in EPL).
Nadesan's been lazily labelled the "new Vardy" (isn't every decent non league striker now?). Too be fair he's pacy, tenacious with a cold deadly eye for goal. But he's more like a poor man's Robert Lewandowski for me and that's not a bad thing to be.
Winchester's Warren Bentley is getting talked up too. Another product of Sotons world class Youth Academy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35916899
I understand the big clubs want big names: Zlatan's, Poga's, Lukaku's, Griezmann's, Renate Sanchez's and Cavani's etc. But how will taking a punt on a non league player harm the cause? Why not have both big name and non league player. The non league won't moan like a baby when he gets zilch playing time as he's picking up crazy money (£1k a week is brilliant for an ex non league player ) and he will play with full throttle if he ever is called up to play.
It's pi$$ed me off that Arsenal have snatched one of Leicester's fabled Scouts. It's these scouts who bring the non league and lower league fare such as Vardy and Mahrez to EPL. It's not as if Arsenal will want him to get the next Mahrez, so why did they hire him? To stop any crazy possible plan to turn Leicester into an empire. Spiteful really.