Basically it puts a price on any youth player according to age - so if he's 17 say, unless you can start a bidding war between clubs they can buy him for £100,000. There are a couple of caveats to prevent explotation - ie Chelsea buying every player in the country who'se under 17, but damn all really. It's by the big boys, for the big boys.
so anyone that shows a bit of promise in an academy risks being snapped up by one of the big boys for 100k??
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our academy had a great season last year and i'm sure there'll be a few clubs/scouts watching them, but £100k for a talented & promising 17 year old is a bit of a joke after a club have brought him through their ranks for a few years.
That's the thing Karl. Clubs will only pay for the cost of coaching a player has received by a club during his time there, not what a player is worth or may be worth. This is based on a formula.
so could that not work both ways then for the lower clubs??? a promising youngster at man utd for example, realistically no chance of getting into their 1st team, but wants to play regular football, good enough for championship level with potential for mid-low table premiership club, a championship club comes in for him and only has to pay £100k ???
Not sure, that fixed formula is for players under 17, so Liverpool would have probably just bought Thomas instead of taking him on loan. I would think most big clubs will keep most of their youngsters until 20-21 (e.g Olly Norwood) so we'd have to pay what they want for them.
I fear that scouts will come in and sign the most promising youngster, so kids like Thomas, bigi, Christie, etc would already have been poached and at better clubs.
so it seems anyone with decent chances of making it in the Prem will be snapped up by the big clubs, they'll be prepared to let their 'poorer' players leave and still get £100k for them, and the gap between top clubs and the rest gets wider and wider!!!
unless there is some protection or clauses for future payments based on performance, games played, achievements, international call ups etc i can see this killing academies off altogether. What's the point of spending 5-6 years developing a player for someone to come in and take him off you for 100k?
Ridiculous goal considering he's 18 and the perfect first touch and volley were with his weaker foot.
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