If anything that would've made things worse for him as that criteria is done on transfer fee, wages and international caps! Unless he has some sort of dual citizenship with a European country like France which can often be the case with players from Africa which would seal it.
Of course it changes things. He's now old enough to order a beer in the pubs he can't go to due to Covid.
The new work permit rules can help us if they play for a good enough team. A season in La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A or Ligue 1 basically guarantees a work permit (Cucho would've qualified ages ago). A decent amount of mins in the Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian or Turkish top divisions would also likely qualify so would be a good destination for loanees.
Good news ......as long as we believe he can get decent game time in any of those leagues in the near future at the age of 18?
Can someone clarify something, can we actually sign a player who wouldn’t be eligible and then loan them out to eventually become eligible, or to sign them in any shape or form do they need to be eligible?
Thanks, yeah I appreciate it’s something we’ve already been doing, but what with the rule change regarding the age, I wasn’t sure if that had also changed. Essentially it’s actually likely to be easier for us to sign players and we can even just loan them to Udinese and get them to name them on the bench for 12 points. Just have to hope they don’t get relegated!
Will spend the rest of the season with Charlie Roy in Belgium. Not sure who Charlie is but hopefully looks after our boy.
6th in the Jupiler Pro at the moment - he'd need to be decent to get minutes already. If he does get some time though then it should make a work permit simple (if it had been an issue).
Quite a high level of loan for Toure. Either its encouraging in terms of how good he currently is, or its poor planning by the club to send him to a club without a use for him. Time will tell...
The amount of favours we've done over the last 8 years, you'd have thought we'd have called a few in yesterday
