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[Albion] ‘Brighton got our best young player and we got nothing’ (The Times)
- Thread starter Wozza
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Sounds strange and I would feel bitter if a 17 year old went for nothing. Whatever the rules are nothing to stop Albion doing the decent thing by making a small donation to them. with more to come if makes the grade if transfer or first team games happen.
Love this idea!
Of course there is. There’s rules and Brighton randomly paying a football club would get picked up by auditors and questioned what for.
- Jul 6, 2011
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I'm loving the amount of people posting on this who clearly have not read the article, just responding to the headline. Classic NSC
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,751
Good question. I believe he said he was training/playing full time, so presumably they were paying him, which I would have thought meant that we would need to buy out the contract
HastingsSeagull
Well-known member
We could get their coaches onto some training courses or as people have said send our U21’s for friendlies. That could happen once a year for a long time. Loan them a player for free each year or give them a bunch of old equipment. Plenty of opportunities I’m sure but would we then be accused of avoiding the rules and bribing the club or something?
U18 scholars are on the figures you're talking about for sure. Once they've signed a proper professional contract the money goes up.
matt
Well-known member
- Mar 19, 2007
- 1,564
Is that a re-titled goalkeeper blooper video?
I must admit, I watched that and thought "poor lad's in for a shock if expects the keepers to be as generous as that playing for us". then I remembered Nick Pope on Saturday
I don’t…….asking fans for a few quid when the PL is awash with billions feels wrong to me. Also difficult for the club to do anything at all that would stay within the rules (making ‘donations’ of cash, kit or buses etc would very soon get out of hand when the likes of Boehly and his accountants spot the loophole so can see why the rules are there).
FA need to look at the rules and provide for it somehow - maybe the source club gets a % of the player’s future annual contract value after two years or a % of any future transfer fee provided they’ve stayed with us for a period or something. Feels wrong they can’t benefit at all and what would be peanuts for us could be importantfor them.
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
Did the Gov't ever appoint a regulator? Surely they'd love a crack at this issue. Nothing but credit for tying at least and better if successful.
Supposed to be in place for the start of 24/25 season.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Connected to the club since he was 2. Mum was the tea lady and she used to give him one of the half time oranges at home games.Coached him since he was 2 ?
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Better than March, Mitoma and Ansu Fati?
- Jun 27, 2012
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He's 17. I think he means either our u18s or u21s . I don't think he means our first team.
He's training and playing with the u21s as far as i can tell and to give you a sense of where he is. He is yet to start a game, and has been in one squad so far coming off the bench for 20 minutes.
Hands up who thought this was going to be a Billy Gilmour/ Chelsea thread.
