Originally Posted by Elliott

I asked this question in the Daniel Åslund thread, but since there's been little interest I figured I'd give it a thread of it's own:

Are we checking out a lot more kids from all over the place these days, or is it just a coincidence that so many of these trials have ended up in the papers?

Are we pursuing young players more aggressively because of the proposed minimum requirement of academy players in the first team squad? I thought that rule was just another one of Platini's castles in the air..