At our level, the payment is more in blessings than in banknotes. We are not selling players like cattle at an auction; we are sending our sons forward with a prayer and whatever small transfer fee the bigger clubs agree upon. The real compensation is seeing that boy from a paddy field family walk onto a professional pitch. I know this because when we sent Sijo to the academy in Kochi, the only cheque we fought for was to cover his mother's medical bills—the rest we reinvested in new footballs for the next batch of boys.
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