Question ...
are you legaly bound to have a youth team/teams by the SFA
could you just have a first team and that's it. Fringe players play bounce games against other clubs at the training ground.
If no kids will come through, why spend all that money.
now I'm not saying that's a good thing, I'm merely pointing and asking that if a club didn't want to invest , then could they just say bugger it and have a first team only and just sign players they needed.