OldBlueLady
Junior Blues Coordinator⭐⭐
He's a good boy and I'm delighted to see him doing so well :)
2012-13 - Blues - League Two
2013-14 - Peterborough - League One
2014-15 - Notts Forest - Championship
2015-16 - Notts Forest? - Premier League?
We may have played some part in his development but at the end of the day we don't have a pot to **** in so should be grateful that we got his services without having to pay a fee. Posh also played a big part in his development but unlike us they had the cash to buy him so deserve their profit.I promise (possibly) that this is the last time I will type this .........
How much money did we get for developing a player for another club to sell on for millions of pounds?
Otherwise I am pleased to see him doing so well.
I promise (possibly) that this is the last time I will type this .........
How much money did we get for developing a player for another club to sell on for millions of pounds?
Otherwise I am pleased to see him doing so well.
Sorry - all good attempts but the answer is nothing. Not one penny of the millions of pounds in transfer fees.
Yet we got a player worth 1 million that we would have had no chance of having for the season.
Would you prefer we had never had him then?
You always ignore the benefits of having a loan player, you get a player for the season, that's the pay off.
We had the benefit of a top player who didn't a penny for for a whole year. We do it ourselves when we loan out players to teams below in the pyramid.
I genuinely don't see the issue.
Well, I think the arguments on both sides have been well put.
As an older person I still think of the "right" way of development for a player (and for clubs) is for the player to work his way up the pyramid with transfer fees and money flowing down.
And for me the loan system has become too big. Scale it down quite a bit is all I ask as I think that would provide an overall benefit to all 92 league clubs.
I would see it as a bad thing, tbh. Top talent should be developed by top clubs with top coaches and top training facilities. That should be encouraged for the good of the game as a whole. Clubs like ours then end up benefiting from having large numbers of first team players who have had a top-class footballing education for which we have not contributed a penny towards, Our goalscorer last night, Conor Clifford, being a perfect example.
Besides none of these players are forced to sign for these clubs. They and their parents choose to do so and shouldn't be forced to accept a lower league club in order to conform to a lower league club's definition of "fairness".
Also in this particular case Britt was very much in Watford's plans. He was in their first team squad all pre-season after he came back from us. He had plenty of game time, scored a few goals and they weren't looking to sell him. Peterborough then offered huge money and they took it.