Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
Thing is if you are gonna base your squad around kids for the future you need to have good solid players around them.
That is spot on, and also if you are getting young kids, you would hope that they have career aspirations. In that case, they will only stay until they can move onto bigger and better things.

If your squad is predominantly young kids of the future, you for the most part won't have a long term stable club.

The older quality is needed to give some stability.