This guide is for you if you are:

→ A sporting director evaluating your academy setup

→ A club executive looking to improve ROI on youth development

→ An academy coordinator who wants a structured framework

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What you'll learn:

— Why a youth academy is your club's most profitable financial investment — and how to measure its ROI

— How Athletic Bilbao manages 170+ partner clubs to find talent others never see

— How to correct for the Relative Age Effect — and why most clubs systematically miss their best late-developing talents

— The decision framework for every executive: when to integrate, loan or sell a young player