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With Che gone, I'd like to have seen Gomes offered first team football. I certainly think he has the talent to go into the first team squad despite his tender age as opposed to going into an academy at another club.Maybe but the priority has to be here and now. Until the academy system in this country changes this will continue to happen. At the end of the day, these players may not even make it. I don't see the point of getting too annoyed about players who won't be making an impact for 3,4,5 years if at all.
It’s also ‘inducements’ to the parents you have to considerFootball needs a wage cap till these young kids hit the legal age of 18.
Jesus. Losing out to Brighton is poor. If it was City or Chelsea you would assume they'd have offered stupid money, but the reality is we are losing one of our brightest prospects for the sake of a few grand a week.Gomez (youth star) to Brighton looks like it’s happening.
REALLY gutted with that. The amount of wages we have wasted on dross, would have been better spent trying to keep him imo. Looks a future star.
Jesus. Losing out to Brighton is poor. If it was City or Chelsea you would assume they'd have offered stupid money, but the reality is we are losing one of our brightest prospects for the sake of a few grand a week.
Ah of course. The first team regular Kami Doyle.He’s probably going for better playing time like Doyle
Brighton might be offering stupid money compared to what we are offering. We have no idea. It’s not going to be for first team football reasonsJesus. Losing out to Brighton is poor. If it was City or Chelsea you would assume they'd have offered stupid money, but the reality is we are losing one of our brightest prospects for the sake of a few grand a week.
Can the complaining about players leaving who haven’t played a single minute of senior football and weren’t going to next season either (and won’t for any club they go and join either) be in the Academy thread?
It clogs this one up. And it’s not like we don’t benefit the other way. We have the two spurs players for example.
Have any of these top prospects who have gone done anything yet?
The Aarons bid is interesting. The facf we are bidding means he would be open to the move, which is what surprises me.
I know we are a much bigger club than Bournemouth and in terms of wages I'd guess we would be similar but they have a better chance at survival than us this season. I wouldnt have thought it would be that appealing a move?
We are also bidding under what they paid only last summer. Technically they probably break even from a FFP perspective but that is still quite an odd first bidQuick bit of looking on TransferMarkt says he only played 20 games for Bournemouth last season, averaging 60 mins per game. So maybe he wants to be more nailed on first choice?
They also have his value down at 16m so we are way off that if the 5m opening bid is to be believed
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