Dundee United have announced plans to reinvest some of the money made from the transfers of Andy Robertson and Ryan Gauld during the summer in an effort to produce more talented young players.
The sales of Robertson and Gauld earned United a cumulative fee of £3m.
The latter was a product of the club's youth system and Tannadice officials have sought to aid the development of their youngest players by installing a £300,000 artificial surface at their training facility opposite the stadium. Work on the new pitch is expected to begin next month, with the United hoping to have the playing surface and upgraded changing facilities up and running by February.
A United supporters group have also donated a sum of money to help fund the installation of the pitch, which will meet the same standards required for Champions League matches. "It will give us a top facility for our youth teams to train and play on," said Stephen Thompson, the United chairman.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article