I cannot believe this has got through! anyway, he's what Barry Fry has to say! I ****ing hate the PL!! Barry Fry unhappy with new compensation plan for young footballers Page last updated at 12:36 GMT, Thursday, 20 October 2011 13:36 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version By Paul Fletcher BBC Sport MK Dons sold Sam Baldock to West Ham for £2.5m Peterborough director Barry Fry says Football League clubs could close their youth academies when a new compensation system is introduced. The 72 Football League clubs voted on Thursday to accept radical proposals to overhaul the academy system. They had been told by the Premier League they would lose funding if they opted against them. "What frightens me is that a lot of clubs will pull out of having a youth system altogether," said Fry. The vote was won by 46 to 22, with three no-shows and one abstention. The new system will put an end to the type of deal which saw West Ham sign Sam Baldock, 22, from MK Dons for £2.5m in August. The current tribunal system used when the buying and selling club cannot agree a fee for the transfer of a player aged under 17 will be replaced by a set of fixed prices. The new price 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. Continue reading the main story If we lose our youth players for nominal fees how are we going to survive? Karl Robinson MK Dons manager If Football League clubs had voted against the new proposals, the funding they receive annually from the Premier League for youth development - a fee currently in excess of £5m per season - would have been withheld. BBC Sport understands the Football League had reluctantly advised its members to vote in favour of accepting the Premier League's final offer at Thursday's meeting at the Bescot Stadium in Walsall. The restructure is tied in with the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP), which aims to improve the youth development system. It has already been accepted by top-flight clubs at a vote in June. And Fry added: "Lower league clubs will look at how much it costs to run their academy or school of excellence and think that, if the Premier League can nick their best players for a low price, what is the point of investing in it?" Fry estimates the sale of home-grown players such as Luke Steele to Manchester United in 2002, plus Matthew Etherington and Simon Davies - both to Tottenham in 2000 - generated Peterborough in the region of £6m. But he added: "We would not get anything like that under the new system. "The Premier League wants everything and they want it for nothing. Football League clubs will moan about this at the meeting but vote for it because they have no choice." Peterborough received £500,000 for selling Matthew Etherington to Spurs Milton Keynes Dons this week reportedly agreed a £1.5 fee, rising to £2m, with Chelsea for 14-year-old Oluwaseyi Ojo. As well as the sale of Baldock to West Ham, MK Dons have used seven players that have come through their youth ranks in their first team this season. MK Dons boss Karl Robinson, who is a former member of the Liverpool academy coaching staff, said: "If we lose our youth players for nominal fees how are we going to survive? "I don't think it is fair. Kids develop at a phenomenal rate at the highest level but are these kids going to play in people's first teams at the age of 16 or 17?" One academy manager at a Football League club, who asked not to be named, said he feared the new price structure would lead to Premier League clubs "hoovering up the best talent" outside of the top-flight, with the danger it would stunt the development of players who would find their path to first-team football blocked by seasoned professionals. The Premier League is keen to stress that the new proposals will result in an increased youth development payment for all 92 Premier League and Football League clubs for a guaranteed four-year period. That money will be gratefully received by Football League clubs due to lost revenue from the latest television deal. The Premier League is also confident the EPPP will help to produce more top-quality players, potentially strengthening the England team .
what a joke!! Its like me going to a kids school and saying to the kids give me all youre money or ill beat you up!!! The Premier league have taken this too far! and I cant believe people have let this happen
I work with some Forest fans, as with us the Academy was the main hope for the future of the club. Its Piss poor, I feel like I've lost all faith in the game now. All this does is aid the top few clubs to keep budgets down so they can compete in the Champions League. Our only hope is we fund a 'super academy', but I can't see us having the amount of money required to do that. I will never buy and England ticket or shirt etc again, in fact I will never watch them again in protest, I'm done with anything to do with the FL or the FA!
I havent watched England for years anyway, Not a patch on watching Leeds United so just ****ed them off
I've not either other than world cup just to go on the piss. it's the biggest scandal of the modern era! makes Bates look almost a saint!
This has pissed me right off and to be honest im with you benlovesleeds. I feel as though the FA and the FL have let every football fan of the english game down (except obviously the Top Four) Im not gonna watch england play again as a protest as well, **** the euros, **** the world cup.
pathetic,how are clubs supposed to survive?,the no relegation proposal sounds ludicrous but let's wait and see how far they can go.
I think the sooner that the top European clubs go off to form their own European League to maximise TV income, the better. Then the real football teams and real fans can get back to playing football.
The only way this will work for the benefit of league clubs, is for a 'lock-in clause' to be attached to all future contracts. Clubs lose their best kids for peanuts, but by having a 10% sell on for all future contracts, would make it a worthwile for all clubs to invest in coaching and scouting. We've lost near on 10 kids recently and had money from tribunals for the 2 that went to Chelsea, the 2 that went to Man City, Garbutt to Everton etc. Clubs could stand to make a lot of cash by doing this. But without this clause, its pointless for clubs to do it
