Notts County have revealed plans to rejuvenate their Centre of Excellence and youth programme.
It closed in May 2006 as a cost-cutting measure but now chairman John Armstrong-Holmes wants to re-open it.
He told the club website: "In the past couple of years we have seen significant financial benefit. But over the next few years we will miss out."
A proposal to relaunch the centre at the start of next season will go before the board of directors on Friday.
Chief executive Geoff Davey explained: "The proposal is indicative of the progress we have made in getting our finances back into shape.
"It's very good news that the club is strong enough to make such an undertaking."
There is no way you can run a succesful club without a vibrant youth program. This is really the first time I'd heard good news about the Magpies finances in awhile.
Baby steps.
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Is this organic or tied to the larger FA issues: angst about a foreigner at the helm, a new National Football center, EPL being dominated by foreigners/Arsenal on top?
Oh if there wasn't near constant hand-wringing about the "state of the English game" folks in the UK wouldn't know what to do with themselves. At the level of County, though, it is more a matter of needing every little bit of help to grow.
County has been done in by over ambitious growth plans in the past, but I'd say this is a necessity.
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