The Daily Mail is reporting that Manchester City has snapped up one of our highly rated youngers, 14 year old Jadon Sancho, in a £500,000 deal. Sancho, an England Under 15 international, already has a sponsorship deal with Nike and is tipped to make a top flight career. According to the article, we will be paid 66k up front, and which can rise to 500k. It also includes a 10% sell on fee. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Never heard of him either but another example of the failure of PPP to properly compensate development of youth . Fee of £5000000 and 10% sell on fee a joke
Agreed. And not just here but all around the world. Short sighted move for the player. Better facilities ? Perhaps. More money ? Quite likely in the short term. Long term career prospects ? Not great in a club that will for several years still ship in expensive imports.
I had heard of him before - but only because I'd noticed that he had been playing for the England Under 15s. Some of you dismiss the loss of this player, saying he'll be the next Forrester and he'll live to regret the move etc., but it is not often that Watford have a player who is a regular at England youth levels. It suggests that he's a level above the likes of Folivi, Byers etc. we have coming through.
I would not use the u15's as a barometer of how many make it to the senior side lowerrous. Very few have done so over recent years. It is different in other countries particularly South America where many of the under age team members do eventually progress to the senior team.
We'll only get 500k and see any of the 10% if he becomes a regular for Manchester City in the Premier League. If that happens, he'll be worth a fair bit more than 500k.
Won't happen. Maybe he would have made it with us, maybe not. What he should have acknowledged is that the route to stardom is, the vast majority of the time, not through top club academies. Especially now, with our excellent facilities and ambition, we're a very good option for a young player. Folivi knows that, and he'll reap the rewards. This Man City Balla will know that, in five years time when he's pleading with City to let him go on loan to League One.
Just shows why anyone who says the Pozzo family are all that's wrong with modern football have literally no clue. How are we supposed to compete at any sort of decent level when Man City can just nick our best young players for pittance? 66k for city is like me paying a couple of quid. City can just do this to pretty much all the good youngsters in England because there is no risk involved for them now with EPPP. People getting worked up about Forestieri should be getting worked up about this instead.
Didn't Man City once try and get Sean Murray off us? And Liverpool tried to get Gavin Massey? Not bothered at all that he has left and I hope his career comes to nothing just to show other kids how stupid it is to move like this
We can still compete at a decent level. The impact of things like this is negligible compared to the bigger picture. We still have quality youngsters signing contracts with us, and once we're given higher academy status it'll be even rarer that this happens. It's not like we needed our academy to bring Abdi, Deeney, Vydra, Ighalo et al to the club. In the, our success depends far more on the quality senior players that Pozzo will bring us, rather than some jumped up 15 year olds who want to be big time.
Is it worth bothering with a youth set up any more? I think for most clubs it is a PR exercise these days.
They've literally got what sounds like one of our best players in our academy for probably a third of what they pay Aguero a week. Madness!
Josh Walker captained England Under 20's Moses Ashokodi played for England youth Reece Brown went to U20 World Cup Dean Parrett did too Reece Warbara as well Loads of examples. All flops. This kid will probably follow in their footsteps.
And if he doesn't, we will get 66k for nothing and he will look on his time here far more favourably than up there, which means we might be in prime position to get him back. If he is only a mid-premiership standard player, he will hopefully command a bit of money, and if he is any worse, we might not want him back anyway
U20's is a bit of a false level though. Anyone good enough for the England team is probably going to go straight from the younger sides into the U21's.
Look, we'd all take a position at a better company for more money and less work. Leave the poor kid alone. He gets free trainers, so what?
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A lot of clubs have dispensed with their academies. After all what is the point of one if any decent prospect is cherry picked for a pittance. Many of these clubs were reliant on selling a young player for a large sum and using the proceeds to survive for several seasons. The rules created by the PL are merely designed to make the rich even richer and in a mire advantageous position. And the 'bigger' PL clubs predate the smaller PL clubs in exactly the same fashion as any WBA fan would tell you.
