SutekhSouth Coast RoyalSnowflake Royal No idea whether he knew about it, but the same guy.
In the 90s and 00s Crewe had a fantastic reputation and success rate got developing young players. Their entire approach was based on snaffling up promising youngsters who hadn't quite made it at the top youth teams, developing them into first team players and selling for a big profit.
Dean Ashton springs to mind as one... not 100% I got his surname right.
Robbie Savage
Danny Murphy
etc., etc
David Platt
Rob Jones
Not forgetting CM mainstay and Rev. William Spooner's favourite player, Kenny Lunt, who incidentally, is now Assistant Manager at Crewe.
Anyone remember Richie Partridge? Ex Liverpool winger who we as fans were so desparate to sign after a great season on loan at Coventry back in 2002 that in the Watford fans site BS&D, season preview, we nominated him as our first choice RW even though he never actually joined us.