Back in Cork with Gunners graduates Merson and Parlour, but Liam Brady fears for modern academy talent

The former head of the Arsenal academy is horrified that profit and sustainability rules now incentivise clubs to sell off their homegrown talent.

Liam Brady with Emile Smith Rowe of Arsenal prior to the Premier League match between Arsenal  and Manchester City at Emirates Stadium last season. Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images

As former head of the Arsenal academy, Liam Brady is horrified at the current Premier League trend that sees clubs incentivised to sell off their homegrown talent.

Among the most famed products of Arsenal’s youth ranks himself, as well as overseeing it for 18 years, Brady is in Cork this Saturday with two more Gunners graduates, Paul Merson and Ray Parlour, for an event at the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs.