Football League clubs have voted to abolish the tribunal system that sets fees when clubs cannot agree a transfer for home-grown youth players. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15381652.stm Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid? From what I understand, many Football League clubs pump a lot of money into the youth system in the hope they produce a promising young player that they can sell on for a high fee which helps fund the club in the long-term. Now, the clubs will look at how much it costs to run the youth system and think, what's the point? According to the article, the new tariffs will see a selling club paid £3,000-per-year for every year of a player's development between the ages of nine and 11. The fee per year from 12 to 16 will depend on the selling club's academy status - but ranges between £12,500 and £40,000. So Premier League clubs can pick up promising youth players for a low fee and the Football League clubs could decide that it isn't worth running the academies because they won't get fees which reflect certain players promise. In effect, a big Premier League club could buy a couple of promising young players for a very low fees and if they didn't fulfill their potential, it wouldn't be very damaging financially to that Premier League club. In my opinion, this will help the bigger clubs pick up youth players on the cheap but I fear that this will have a significant impact on the clubs in the Championship, League 1 and League 2 because they will lose promising young players on the cheap. This could result in lower league clubs deciding that investing in a youth system simply isn't worth it. I'm stunned the 72 Football League clubs voted this through. I welcome your views on this subject.
I think it is silly. in spain no player gets paid anything like what kids get spoiled with here. no movement of kids before 17.. full stop.
I don't understand why they have taken this decision. It doesn't, on face value at least, appear to do them any favours in their dealings with the bigger clubs. Perhaps, there is a negative effect when it comes to deals between the League clubs?
maybe they think they can now name thier price and block kids moving in court or something. They must think there's more money to be made this way than before.
Somehow it seems to be a bit sick that there is a market in kids. Perhaps your right and they shouldn't be allowed to move before their 17th birthday.
Apparently they voted for as they were fearful of the big clubs pulling some 5 million from them? Some sort of blackmail-ish type fo stuff ( you don't sign, you no longer get.....)
The Premier Leagues spread an equal amount of money per season to the Football League as a result of their youth development. The clubs have refused to pay this money if the Football League turned down the new proposals. It's in the interests of the latter to accept, or basically get literally nothing. Considering the massive loss of TV revenue thanks to a drop in payments, the clubs will rely on the Premier League money.
Hmm... This seems like the Premier League is forcing the Football League clubs to accept these proposals. In the short-term, the 72 Football League clubs will gain extra funding but after the four year period which they are guaranteed extra funding, the Premier League could decide to reduce funding and with the reduced fees for youth players when they move clubs, many Football League clubs like Watford which rely on youth players will suffer.
