Port Vale CEO - Matt Hancock ("Big Clubs Take Our Talent Before First-Team Football"") - Episode 27 snippet")

I’m joined by Matt Hancock the CEO of EFL League 1 team Port Vale, on Episode 27 of my podcast.

Matt tells me about the dilemma of exceptional young talents breaking into the first team early. Academy players with exceptional talent have been bought by Premier League clubs before they got the chance to play in the Port Vale First Team.

Big clubs buying young talented academy players before they play First Team football is one of the challenges lower league clubs face when developing young players.