Wenger was spot on

[Borys]

It's not really special players generally have short contracts, 2 to 3 years maximum, and they leave as free agents or extend with their current club, transfer fees are rare. And there is an incentive in producing your own players or at least a large part of your team, you can't rely on someone else to do it, the selection rules often require a large amount of homegrown players and with injuries it's also important to have youth players ready to be called at all time, you may bring a medical joker but it's not the best option.

I don't see the incentive to produce your own players. Let's imagine a club like Dortmund constantly giving chances, investing time in young players. Then after 2-3 years they'll just leave, like they often do now, but the club doesn't get paid anything for developing the player into a star. Surely at some point they'll just stop focusing on youth and focus on more experienced, older players who are available right here right now, especially that they'll only have to pay their wages?​

 

[JPRouve]

I don't see the incentive to produce your own players. Let's imagine a club like Dortmund constantly giving chances, investing time in young players. Then after 2-3 years they'll just leave, like they often do now, but the club doesn't get paid anything for developing the player into a star. Surely at some point they'll just stop focusing on youth and focus on more experienced, older players who are available right here right now, especially that they'll only have to pay their wages?​

The incentive is that what the current system allows is for a club like Dortmund to finance transfer mistakes, nothing else. Without those large transfer fees a club like Dortmund will have to make sure that they can replace players internally every two to three years while also trying to get the best free agents they can afford. No transfer fee doesn't mean that you don't have a fee to pay and competition for players, Dortmund won't be able to outbid every other club in the world regularly which mean that they can't exclusively rely on the free agent market.