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“We just put our home up for sale yesterday,” said Dwight James, a resident of Simi Valley, who is still making payments on a loan he took out to pay for his solar system.

Chelsea academy graduates usually have a couple of well-trodden pathways - breakthrough, loan, first team; or breakthrough, loan, sale.

Moorcroft had warned in March of possible redundancies and at the time cited rising costs and falling sales.

"We don't care about sales to the United States," says Hu Tianqiang as one of his toy fighter jets flies past our heads.

The work, as telephone sales agents, isn't well paid, but employees can earn commissions, and the regular pay cheque gave Alberto the stability he craved.