Nahki Wells might be making all the right moves as he continues to wow the fans at Bradford City in English League Two.He netted a hat-trick earlier this month, is almost a permanent fixture in the team and was in contention for the club’s Player of the Year Award.Yet he could do worse than heed the words of former pro Dean Windass, who played at the same club and has watched his progression and assessed his potential.His sage advice is that Wells remain at Bradford for at least another season and hone the skills which have already taken him this far in his fledgling professional career.Ignore the approaches, he suggests, from bigger and wealthier clubs whose scouts have been monitoring him.At just 21, the former Dandy Town player has time on his side.At the moment he’s enjoying his football, playing probably better than he’s ever played and no doubt learning from his team-mates both on and off the field.As Windass said, that could change all too quickly if he decides to leave City and take his chances with another club.Bigger clubs may pay bigger wages but they also have a bigger pool of players.Whereas Wells is currently an automatic pick at his current club that likely wouldn’t be the case with another team.Premiership football is still a long, long way away and he won’t be thinking in those terms just yet but he will be aware of the rotation system used by the league’s big boys where some of the world’s top players find themselves in the reserves are on the substitutes’ bench as much as they are on the field at the weekend.Even in the Championship, the next tier down in English football, competition for places is far tougher than where Wells is now.There’d be no guarantee he would be playing first team football every week. And that’s exactly what he needs after playing an integral role in City’s struggle to move out of the relegation zone.In different ways, three of Bermuda’s top players of the past, Clyde Best, Shaun Goater and Kyle Lightbourne, all had to serve their apprenticeships, as talented as they were.Lightbourne eventually found out that a move to a richer club helped swell his bank account but did little to enhance his career.At Walsall, he was nicknamed Killer for his sharpness inside the box. He was regularly the club’s top goalscorer and might admit now that those days in the league’s lower division gave him much more pleasure than his time with Coventry City who at the time of his transfer were playing in the Premier League.Like so many before him, he became a far smaller fish in a much bigger pond. His limited time on the field gave him little chance to establish himself at the club.His circumstances, of course, were much different to those of Wells.He’d already spent several seasons at Walsall and wasn’t about to forego an opportunity to play with and against some of the game’s best.If he continues to improve, Wells’ chance will also almost certainly come. But now probably isn’t the time to take it.Some scouts might be keeping an eye on him but another successful season with City could reap richer rewards.Regardless, he’s adding credence to the argument that while Bermuda can’t produce teams who can be competitive in this part of the world, we can produce individuals who can make the professional grade.Best paved the way, Lightbourne and Goater travelled down the same road and more recently Reggie Lambe showed he could hold his own with English club Ipswich Town before moving to Major League Soccer club Toronto FC with whom he scored twice during the recent game against Chicago Fire.At the moment Wells is letting his boots do all the talking. The rest will all follow in good time.* * * *NOW that all the hoopla and back slapping over the success of the Carifta Games, much of it from those in Government who apparently wanted to take some of the credit, has subsided, it’s worth questioning why track and field has received so little financial support in the past.Yes, Government helped finance the Games, but prior to that festival Bermuda Track and Field Association were generally ignored when the annual Budget came around.For a fraction of the millions of dollars that have been pumped into Bermuda’s two national sports, football and cricket, our local athletes could have competed throughout the region on a regular basis, both at junior and senior level.Former Olympian Troy Douglas, who assisted as a coach at the Games, said as much when interviewed by this paper.He believes the talent exists but not the exposure.But having left the Island many years ago to race and coach in Holland, he might not be aware of Government’s hypocrisy when it comes to supporting local sport.They talk the talk but rarely walk the walk.Sailing, Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney suggested last year, could become a national sport but we’ve heard nothing since.Maybe track and field will now be given more recognition but we won’t be holding our breath.ADRIAN ROBSON