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Deji Elerewe - won League One Apprentice of the year at EFL 2022 Awards (p11)
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One was a sunday league team!seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.6 -
Sort of - a Nigerian football site says Man Utd, Chelsea and West Ham had scouts watching both teams. I’d say Prem clubs watching these games is to be expected and Deji will likely be one player they went to watch alongside others.AFKABartram said:
https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=41290
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Sure it was the young rapscallion Ben Watson there coming to watch reallyScoham said:
Sort of - a Nigerian football site says Man Utd, Chelsea and West Ham had scouts watching both teams. I’d say Prem clubs watching these games is to be expected and Deji will likely be one player they went to watch alongside others.AFKABartram said:
https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=41290
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Not the same though is it? We get them from Waterloo and kings lynn?seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.0 -
I might be living in cloud cuckoo land, but I’m still hoping Deji is going to treat the club who have given him a chance a bit of respect and sign a new contract.
Going forward I don’t think we should let any players near the first team as a point of principle unless they’ve signed a contract, otherwise it ends up as a monumental ballsup.5 -
Not when we got Aribo as another example.cafcsinger said:
One was a sunday league team!seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.2 -
Bury TownTodds_right_hook said:
Not the same though is it? We get them from Waterloo and kings lynn?seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.1 -
I suppose it's about pecking orderTodds_right_hook said:
Not the same though is it? We get them from Waterloo and kings lynn?seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.
'I know an old lady who swallowed a fly'.2 -
seth plum said:
Not when we got Aribo as another example.cafcsinger said:
One was a sunday league team!seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.
Of course I am a fickle /biased footy fan but:
- Lookman was playing Sunday league. His team would have been proud to see him go to a league club and he was probably paying them subs. Not really comparable.
- Aribo came from Staines in Conference South where his own manager contacted Euell at Charlton to recommend we take a look at him and packed him off to us on a 2.month trial, hardly comparable I would suggest.
- Pope was at Isthmian League Bury Town where he had only been since 16 when released from Ipswich (3 years).
None of these clubs will have put anywhere near the same resources into developing these players. I do hope however that all 3 got just reward for their efforts.
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It might be fairer if the EPP stitch up included an automatic sell on clause - so if DE went to West Ham and was sold for 50 million to Man City we would profit from it .
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I agree with you as to what happened. My point is that Charlton are low down in the food chain in acquiring players, but not at the bottom.
The real issue is when is the right moment to offer a young player a relatively lengthy contract? We have been stung quite a lot, Poyet, Palmer are examples, but with say Konsa and Doherty we fared better.
Deji Elewere is trying to proceed in the best way for him, which in my view would be to sign a three year contract with Charlton.2 -
the club have previously said that they are discussing a contract with him, if we play hard ball and say no contract then no 1st team appearances he might just say bye and go elsewhere, it is very difficult for us to know the state of the negotiations all we can do is keep saying to the club to sign him up and then hope he does.1
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It’s a different time, Deji has no affiliation with us so why should he sign a new contract when he can be on more money somewhere else? That’s just what happens when you’re a lower league team like us, when the bigger clubs come calling you have no chance of holding on to the player.2
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One was so far down the pymamid it was in a tomb and we did a deal with the other.seth plum said:As a club we have also grabbed good players developed elsewhere. Lookman and Pope are two examples.0 -
Would be awful if we don’t keep him.I get that you sometimes have to sell your best players, but letting players with massive potential go before they’ve even scratched the surface of realising that potential with us is crap.He looks class.4
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And his agent see the pound signs in his headSheedyCAFC said:It’s a different time, Deji has no affiliation with us so why should he sign a new contract when he can be on more money somewhere else? That’s just what happens when you’re a lower league team like us, when the bigger clubs come calling you have no chance of holding on to the player.0 -
All we can do is offer him a contract which we have .. it’s out of our hands , club can do no moreValley11 said:Would be awful if we don’t keep him.I get that you sometimes have to sell your best players, but letting players with massive potential go before they’ve even scratched the surface of realising that potential with us is crap.He looks class.1 -
Didn't we get Deji from Palace?0
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That would be a real shame if we lost him. He has looked absolute class everytime I've seen him play0
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Been with us since he was 13. If palace let him go at that age, that's on them.
It's different to us trying to keep the lad after developing him and he jumps at the first opportunity.
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If that is the case.0 -
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Another kid refusing to sign a contract.Don’t play him if he won’t sign.7
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Well, we're not cyrrently playing him....only in the Pizza Hut games. In the league games when we had an injury to Innis or players were out of favour we played 35 year old Pearce.J BLOCK said:Another kid refusing to sign a contract.Don’t play him if he won’t sign.
Not really sending out the vibes that we play the youngsters is it.1 -
Ged and Gallen did seem pretty confident he was going to sign and basically said keep an eye out for the announcement. The delay is a bit strange, though.1
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Pearce has never played on the right side of the centre back pairing… Elerewe has not yet played on the left side. They are not competing for the same spot.golfaddick said:
Well, we're not cyrrently playing him....only in the Pizza Hut games. In the league games when we had an injury to Innis or players were out of favour we played 35 year old Pearce.J BLOCK said:Another kid refusing to sign a contract.Don’t play him if he won’t sign.
Not really sending out the vibes that we play the youngsters is it.It’s been Inniss, Elerewe or (after he signed) Lavelle in that position.3 -
They could have. They could have sorted a contract in the summerRonnieMoore said:
All we can do is offer him a contract which we have .. it’s out of our hands , club can do no moreValley11 said:Would be awful if we don’t keep him.I get that you sometimes have to sell your best players, but letting players with massive potential go before they’ve even scratched the surface of realising that potential with us is crap.He looks class.1 -
To be fair we don’t know how long they’ve been trying to get him signed up.
The mistake is probably not realising his potential and offering him a pro deal as soon as he turned 17.
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Maybe they did and he didn't sign it then either?Todds_right_hook said:
They could have. They could have sorted a contract in the summerRonnieMoore said:
All we can do is offer him a contract which we have .. it’s out of our hands , club can do no moreValley11 said:Would be awful if we don’t keep him.I get that you sometimes have to sell your best players, but letting players with massive potential go before they’ve even scratched the surface of realising that potential with us is crap.He looks class.2 -
They have been talking to him for a while .. hence the offer of a contract .. as I say the club can do no but once money, cars and houses fir his parents start getting mentioned then it’s a diff story … we all remember Defoe and how West Ham got to his parents etc etc ….. this is going the same way and should not be allowedTodds_right_hook said:
They could have. They could have sorted a contract in the summerRonnieMoore said:
All we can do is offer him a contract which we have .. it’s out of our hands , club can do no moreValley11 said:Would be awful if we don’t keep him.I get that you sometimes have to sell your best players, but letting players with massive potential go before they’ve even scratched the surface of realising that potential with us is crap.He looks class.2 -
Dazzler21 said:Been with us since he was 13. If palace let him go at that age, that's on them.
It's different to us trying to keep the lad after developing him and he jumps at the first opportunity.
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If that is the case.
Palace let Deji Elerewe go at 13 similar to the age Baah left Palace. Deji was then enrolled at the Kinetic football/Harris academy but just 3 months later he joined Cafc. Baah was at Kinetic football/Harris academy for 30 months before Signing for Rochdale.2 -
The best way to hold on to our best youngsters is to be much higher up the football pyramid than 4th bottom League One.
As things stand there are two dozen or more clubs that are probably more attractive.11
