WARNING Long post.
I like to look at it like this:
When you take over a crappy team with "awful facilities", it's like when you turn out for a Sunday Amateur team. You get changed in a PortaKabin, with showers that work if the groundsman's remembered to switch on the immersion heater the night before, and they scald your arse if you're first in, and if you wait 10 minutes before you head in they freeze the baws off you.
Training's done on a shale park, or a half ploughed field, and you twist your ankles and skin your knees if you go down, and there's a guy with a rudimentary knowledge of first aid there to act as a "physio".
Players are found by word of mouth, the closest thing being scouts in CM, so I sign as many as possible - crap guys included.
As the facilities improve I imagine the switch to a grass park to train on, with the showers - and even a first aid room - in something like a brick built building, with maybe a Social Club and a Dance floor in it, and some old codger in a flat cap selling Tote numbers to boost the funds. There'd be real Scouts going round looking for players, so I'd make sure they were pretty good, stat wise.
When we finally get to "Top Facilities plus Youth Academy" I like to think that SI have given us a brand new building, with gymnasium and indoor training facilities, and lovely, green, lush grass playing surfaces, and medical facilities that need
real physios, and maybe a Club Doctor or two, and masseurs and all that shÃ*t I could only imagine when I turned out on a freezing winters' morning for the local animals.
The "Youth Academy" would take care of the youth players, and scouts would have little or nothing to do with it, per se, only scouting abroad (at last) to cream in some foreign-johnnies to augment the British talent making full use of the facilities available to lift the once lowly Club to Euro-stardom.
Coaches would be the best available, there would be a good number in every training regime, and a couple of physios to look after each group of players - training wise.
A Utopian view of it, but I like it and it keeps me happy
Top Facilities plus Youth Academey? 
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