Obviously a no brainer for Brighton for less than 1m but they do already appear to have a number of decent young keepers:
Their first choice Sanchez is only 24. Dutch backup keeper signed from Ajax who is only 21. One who is 20 and on loan at Walsall who was called up for England U21s a couple of months ago. Another academy keeper who has played for England U19s. And finally the keeper the other night for Ipswich (Walton) who probably stopped it being 4-0 is on loan from Brighton.
From what i've read Beadle certainly has the talent to go all the way, but it's not as if he's got an easy path to their first team.
Didn’t Sandgaard assure us we wouldn’t lose our best young players… ok we got few quid but. It full value for an England youth INTL.
Another big statement TS got wrong.
Kanu probably next. At least Mason & Anderson are tied down.
It’s a promise no owner can make. They can’t guarantee it. Without being on a pro contract Beadle could have gone for about £40k as defined by EPPP.
Maybe he’d have stayed for £10k a week and guaranteed first team football within a year. Would you want an owner to throw silly money at a teenager who’s not even a regular in the u23s yet?
I expect over time TS will do a better job of keeping young players for longer and getting a good fee when they do go, but it’s not realistic to think we’ll keep well known England youth internationals while we’re in League 1.
Get to the Championship and category 1 then we’ll improve our chances.
Positive news from the fans forum tonight re: cat 1 status as TS et al seemed to have found a work around for Sparrows Lane
Would be good. Of course even with CAT1 we are still competing with the likes of Palace and their superior facilities but location, history of youth production and CAT1 certainly all helps so fingers crossed we get there swiftly.
As good a prospect as he was,he was nowhere near our first team,we are well blessed with good keepers,and while it is always annoying when young players leave,we could never match what Brighton will pay him.He is 17,that is likely 5-6 years before he was a regular in our or any other team,the money we got for him will hopefully be re invested ,and any future add ons will help the club in years to come.
Unprecedented deal for a 17 year old keeper will still be diddly squat compared to any value he may have given us if he had made it. Likely some minor upfront fee and a sell on clause for the future.
Another youngster comes through our academy using our free resources and training and disappears before signing even one contract.
The grief someone like Poyet got on here but at least he signed a contract and played a few games for us.
Disappointing and another nail in the academy coffin if we don't rapidly get CAT1.
Love the outrage, but how long would you expect him to stay? He's nowhere near the first team and we got a fee, seems the best deal all round personally. The money is probably far best in our pot now, than a player that will start in 5 years time.
Unprecedented deal for a 17 year old keeper will still be diddly squat compared to any value he may have given us if he had made it. Likely some minor upfront fee and a sell on clause for the future.
Another youngster comes through our academy using our free resources and training and disappears before signing even one contract.
The grief someone like Poyet got on here but at least he signed a contract and played a few games for us.
Disappointing and another nail in the academy coffin if we don't rapidly get CAT1.
Love the outrage, but how long would you expect him to stay? He's nowhere near the first team and we got a fee, seems the best deal all round personally. The money is probably far best in our pot now, than a player that will start in 5 years time.
Exactly. 600-700k (this is a guess) that could now be spent on a striker in January or put towards paying that bit extra in wages for a premier league youngster on loan could give us an edge, especially when most of league one are still struggling financially post-covid.
Obviously a no brainer for Brighton for less than 1m but they do already appear to have a number of decent young keepers:
Their first choice Sanchez is only 24. Dutch backup keeper signed from Ajax who is only 21. One who is 20 and on loan at Walsall who was called up for England U21s a couple of months ago. Another academy keeper who has played for England U19s. And finally the keeper the other night for Ipswich (Walton) who probably stopped it being 4-0 is on loan from Brighton.
From what i've read Beadle certainly has the talent to go all the way, but it's not as if he's got an easy path to their first team.
This was my concern, there's a lot of keepers on their books , Walton is 26 and has barely played for them , just been loan after loan after loan. And they've got Jason Steele as senior backup too.
It’s not a nail in the academy coffin though is it? We’ve produced year after year. The facts of the football pyramid are simple like us taking burstow others take ours. The fact that people are indicating the lad ensured the 9 years wasn’t just taken but repaid says volumes. Good luck to him because like anything nobody knows what tomorrow holds
Unprecedented deal for a 17 year old keeper will still be diddly squat compared to any value he may have given us if he had made it. Likely some minor upfront fee and a sell on clause for the future.
Another youngster comes through our academy using our free resources and training and disappears before signing even one contract.
The grief someone like Poyet got on here but at least he signed a contract and played a few games for us.
Disappointing and another nail in the academy coffin if we don't rapidly get CAT1.
Love the outrage, but how long would you expect him to stay? He's nowhere near the first team and we got a fee, seems the best deal all round personally. The money is probably far best in our pot now, than a player that will start in 5 years time.
It's disappointment, not outrage. I like to see the youth sign up and stay to break into the first team is all.
A concern of the viability of our Academy if players leave also seems reasonable to me.
As for the money being in "our pot", let's see in January but I often read on here that we lose £5-10M pa so if we have an upfront fee of somewhere near a million quid I personally would not be making assumptions that it will go into a transfer pot.
Not sure I understand this move being for coaching and opportunity reasons... Perhaps there's more to it but as someone stated above, Brighton have a buttload of keepers, aren't in the top 20 for producing Premier League players and meanwhile we're equal with Barcelona.
Even historically Brighton is a poor academy. I hope the lad doesn't live to regret it.
A chance meeting at a non League game with a Charlton insider back in August confirmed that Brighton were favourites for James Beadle's signature as they had been monitoring him for quite a while.
I also learnt about all the other talented kids with the then 17 year olds Deji and Burstow; who I had seen in youth matches, being the stand outs also 16 year old Daniel Kanu( now 17) who I have also heard about from Ralfi Hand who joined CAFC recently. Ralfi knew Daniel from a early age when they both played for a Kent school boy side.
Being a 17 year old keeper Beadle wasn't going to get the Jersey in the next year at Cafc and he will carry on now with the specialist keeper training at Premier Brighton. A long road ahead for James Beadle, maybe he will come back when we are in the Premier !
Thankfully it wasn't Chelski.
Freddie Woodman: ex England youth keeper took 7 years from 17 years old to finally make his debut for his parent club Newcastle, after loans in Scotland, Crawley, and two full seasons at Swansea.
It’s not a nail in the academy coffin though is it? We’ve produced year after year. The facts of the football pyramid are simple like us taking burstow others take ours. The fact that people are indicating the lad ensured the 9 years wasn’t just taken but repaid says volumes. Good luck to him because like anything nobody knows what tomorrow holds
Not sure I understand this move being for coaching and opportunity reasons... Perhaps there's more to it but as someone stated above, Brighton have a buttload of keepers, aren't in the top 20 for producing Premier League players and meanwhile we're equal with Barcelona.
Even historically Brighton is a poor academy.
I hope the lad doesn't live to regret it.
If Beadle wasn't a keeper, he would've more chance of a first team debut by 17 or 18, at Cafc similar to Mason Burstow and Deji Elerewe. Pope was being rejected by Ipswich at a similar age and starting again at his local non League club in Bury St Edmunds before coming to Cafc at 19.
Unprecedented deal for a 17 year old keeper will still be diddly squat compared to any value he may have given us if he had made it. Likely some minor upfront fee and a sell on clause for the future.
Another youngster comes through our academy using our free resources and training and disappears before signing even one contract.
The grief someone like Poyet got on here but at least he signed a contract and played a few games for us.
Disappointing and another nail in the academy coffin if we don't rapidly get CAT1.
Love the outrage, but how long would you expect him to stay? He's nowhere near the first team and we got a fee, seems the best deal all round personally. The money is probably far best in our pot now, than a player that will start in 5 years time.
It's disappointment, not outrage. I like to see the youth sign up and stay to break into the first team is all.
A concern of the viability of our Academy if players leave also seems reasonable to me.
As for the money being in "our pot", let's see in January but I often read on here that we lose £5-10M pa so if we have an upfront fee of somewhere near a million quid I personally would not be making assumptions that it will go into a transfer pot.
In the pot one way or another, it's how clubs like us survive. The academy is very viable, but mores the point... how many players do you expect a league 1 club to have on its books ?
As a player, would you want to be 7th choice in league 1, or 7th choice in the Premier league ?.
Remember Murray saying it when RD took over but not TS. Happy to be corrected.
This is why the news on Cat 1 status is so important and why I was so surprised that news got such a muted response.
According to TS last night we have the 14th best academy. I wasn't at the fans forum so assume this means the 14th most productive but not sure how that is being measured or by whom.
If we're that high up in league one with the disasterous ownership issues where could we go with Cat 1?
I note Brighton are not on that list, however if James has to leave then Brighton is a nicer club than most. Whatever happened to (what was always a myth anyway) the notion that Chrystal Pals of Lice produces reckonable players? Personally I think Harness is a fantastic prospect.
Remember Murray saying it when RD took over but not TS. Happy to be corrected.
This is why the news on Cat 1 status is so important and why I was so surprised that news got such a muted response.
According to TS last night we have the 14th best academy. I wasn't at the fans forum so assume this means the 14th most productive but not sure how that is being measured or by whom.
If we're that high up in league one with the disasterous ownership issues where could we go with Cat 1?
Why is it though? I appreciate it might boost the facilities we can offer these kids, but what else will it mean? Whether we are Cat 1 or not, players like James Beadle are still going to going to leave League 1 clubs to join Premier League ones.
Have not read all of the comments but apparently Beadle has had several premiership offers. What can you do; you cannot offer wages to an eighteen year old that exceeds probably what some senior players are getting. Rumoured he will be getting about 9k a week.
Remember Murray saying it when RD took over but not TS. Happy to be corrected.
This is why the news on Cat 1 status is so important and why I was so surprised that news got such a muted response.
According to TS last night we have the 14th best academy. I wasn't at the fans forum so assume this means the 14th most productive but not sure how that is being measured or by whom.
If we're that high up in league one with the disasterous ownership issues where could we go with Cat 1?
Why is it though? I appreciate it might boost the facilities we can offer these kids, but what else will it mean? Whether we are Cat 1 or not, players like James Beadle are still going to going to leave League 1 clubs to join Premier League ones.
We have greater protection against poaching, get bigger compensation if it does happen, can recruit at an earlier age and from anywhere in the country, not just our "catchment" area, will be more attractive to boys and parents because we are Cat 1.
It will never stop players being taken but it makes it harder for others to do to us and easier for us to do it to others.
Why else did the "elite" clubs create the EPPP? Not to create a better England side, although that has happened, but to give themselves more power, more control over young talent.
He was sold for a fee, nobody lost anyone. You cant keep literally every player than signs at 12, although we know that and this can be another excuse to moan about TS.
Charlton fans become so bloody whiny, half the people on here wouldn't have known anything about him. If we get £1m happy days and good luck to the kid
I think TS has done a good job of getting youngsters to sign so far, but there will always be those that will refuse and go elsewhere. Don't know anything about this lad but he's well down our pecking order and will be at Brighton. But, from his point of view it protects him financially for a good few years. Good luck to him I guess, but it's disappointing to see us lose a player without him starting a game. At least we got some kind of fee. Not sure how we negotiated this, as surely Brighton would want to pay as little as possible under the EPPP? Maybe they offered more to fend off other clubs and the lad really wanted to go there?
Nathan Baxter of Chelsea, but last season at Accrington and now at Hull is probably a good example of modern day goalkeeping development. A South East London boy to boot.
Remember Murray saying it when RD took over but not TS. Happy to be corrected.
This is why the news on Cat 1 status is so important and why I was so surprised that news got such a muted response.
According to TS last night we have the 14th best academy. I wasn't at the fans forum so assume this means the 14th most productive but not sure how that is being measured or by whom.
If we're that high up in league one with the disasterous ownership issues where could we go with Cat 1?
Why is it though? I appreciate it might boost the facilities we can offer these kids, but what else will it mean? Whether we are Cat 1 or not, players like James Beadle are still going to going to leave League 1 clubs to join Premier League ones.
We have greater protection against poaching, get bigger compensation if it does happen, can recruit at an earlier age and from anywhere in the country, not just our "catchment" area, will be more attractive to boys and parents because we are Cat 1.
It will never stop players being taken but it makes it harder for others to do to us and easier for us to do it to others.
Why else did the "elite" clubs create the EPPP? Not to create a better England side, although that has happened, but to give themselves more power, more control over young talent.
At the end of the day, we now have a better England team. You can argue whether EPPP is the reason or not, but the big clubs are producing quality youngsters now, technically excellent and doing it at the highest level.
Even if we get Cat 1, the Chelsea academy for example will still have better coaches and facilities than us, that's the reality, and there is a pathway to the first team
Remember Murray saying it when RD took over but not TS. Happy to be corrected.
This is why the news on Cat 1 status is so important and why I was so surprised that news got such a muted response.
According to TS last night we have the 14th best academy. I wasn't at the fans forum so assume this means the 14th most productive but not sure how that is being measured or by whom.
If we're that high up in league one with the disasterous ownership issues where could we go with Cat 1?
Why is it though? I appreciate it might boost the facilities we can offer these kids, but what else will it mean? Whether we are Cat 1 or not, players like James Beadle are still going to going to leave League 1 clubs to join Premier League ones.
We have greater protection against poaching, get bigger compensation if it does happen, can recruit at an earlier age and from anywhere in the country, not just our "catchment" area, will be more attractive to boys and parents because we are Cat 1.
It will never stop players being taken but it makes it harder for others to do to us and easier for us to do it to others.
Why else did the "elite" clubs create the EPPP? Not to create a better England side, although that has happened, but to give themselves more power, more control over young talent.
At the end of the day, we now have a better England team. You can argue whether EPPP is the reason or not, but the big clubs are producing quality youngsters now, technically excellent and doing it at the highest level.
Even if we get Cat 1, the Chelsea academy for example will still have better coaches and facilities than us, that's the reality, and there is a pathway to the first team
Bit of a stretch still, as a good number of current England players were produced outside of the top six clubs.
Not sure I understand this move being for coaching and opportunity reasons... Perhaps there's more to it but as someone stated above, Brighton have a buttload of keepers, aren't in the top 20 for producing Premier League players and meanwhile we're equal with Barcelona.
Even historically Brighton is a poor academy. I hope the lad doesn't live to regret it.
That table is pretty nice to look at.
We may be bottom of that league, but no other academy at our level has produced as many current PL players as ours. In addition, a good number of higher level (PL & Champ) clubs have only produced 5 or less!
So who are our six?
Pope Gomez Konsa Shelvey Lookman (Was Karlan the other?)
Not sure I understand this move being for coaching and opportunity reasons... Perhaps there's more to it but as someone stated above, Brighton have a buttload of keepers, aren't in the top 20 for producing Premier League players and meanwhile we're equal with Barcelona.
Even historically Brighton is a poor academy. I hope the lad doesn't live to regret it.
That table is pretty nice to look at.
We may be bottom of that league, but no other academy at our level has produced as many current PL players as ours. In addition, a good number of higher level (PL & Champ) clubs have only produced 5 or less!
So who are our six?
Pope Gomez Konsa Shelvey Lookman (Was Karlan the other?)
Yeah Karlan would have been, with West Brom last season
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Their first choice Sanchez is only 24.
Dutch backup keeper signed from Ajax who is only 21.
One who is 20 and on loan at Walsall who was called up for England U21s a couple of months ago.
Another academy keeper who has played for England U19s.
And finally the keeper the other night for Ipswich (Walton) who probably stopped it being 4-0 is on loan from Brighton.
From what i've read Beadle certainly has the talent to go all the way, but it's not as if he's got an easy path to their first team.
Maybe he’d have stayed for £10k a week and guaranteed first team football within a year. Would you want an owner to throw silly money at a teenager who’s not even a regular in the u23s yet?
I expect over time TS will do a better job of keeping young players for longer and getting a good fee when they do go, but it’s not realistic to think we’ll keep well known England youth internationals while we’re in League 1.
Get to the Championship and category 1 then we’ll improve our chances.
This was my concern, there's a lot of keepers on their books , Walton is 26 and has barely played for them , just been loan after loan after loan. And they've got Jason Steele as senior backup too.
It's disappointment, not outrage. I like to see the youth sign up and stay to break into the first team is all.
A concern of the viability of our Academy if players leave also seems reasonable to me.
As for the money being in "our pot", let's see in January but I often read on here that we lose £5-10M pa so if we have an upfront fee of somewhere near a million quid I personally would not be making assumptions that it will go into a transfer pot.
Not sure I understand this move being for coaching and opportunity reasons... Perhaps there's more to it but as someone stated above, Brighton have a buttload of keepers, aren't in the top 20 for producing Premier League players and meanwhile we're equal with Barcelona.
Even historically Brighton is a poor academy. I hope the lad doesn't live to regret it.
I also learnt about all the other talented kids with the then 17 year olds Deji and Burstow; who I had seen in youth matches, being the stand outs also 16 year old Daniel Kanu( now 17) who I have also heard about from Ralfi Hand who joined CAFC recently. Ralfi knew Daniel from a early age when they both played for a Kent school boy side.
Being a 17 year old keeper Beadle wasn't going to get the Jersey in the next year at Cafc and he will carry on now with the specialist keeper training at Premier Brighton.
A long road ahead for James Beadle, maybe he will come back when we are in the Premier !
Thankfully it wasn't Chelski.
Freddie Woodman: ex England youth keeper took 7 years from 17 years old to finally make his debut for his parent club Newcastle, after loans in Scotland, Crawley, and two full seasons at Swansea.
If Beadle wasn't a keeper, he would've more chance of a first team debut by 17 or 18, at Cafc similar to Mason Burstow and Deji Elerewe.
Pope was being rejected by Ipswich at a similar age and starting again at his local non League club in Bury St Edmunds before coming to Cafc at 19.
As a player, would you want to be 7th choice in league 1, or 7th choice in the Premier league ?.
Remember Murray saying it when RD took over but not TS. Happy to be corrected.
This is why the news on Cat 1 status is so important and why I was so surprised that news got such a muted response.
According to TS last night we have the 14th best academy. I wasn't at the fans forum so assume this means the 14th most productive but not sure how that is being measured or by whom.
If we're that high up in league one with the disasterous ownership issues where could we go with Cat 1?
Whatever happened to (what was always a myth anyway) the notion that Chrystal Pals of Lice produces reckonable players?
Personally I think Harness is a fantastic prospect.
What can you do; you cannot offer wages to an eighteen year old that exceeds probably what some senior players are getting.
Rumoured he will be getting about 9k a week.
It will never stop players being taken but it makes it harder for others to do to us and easier for us to do it to others.
Why else did the "elite" clubs create the EPPP? Not to create a better England side, although that has happened, but to give themselves more power, more control over young talent.
A South East London boy to boot.
Even if we get Cat 1, the Chelsea academy for example will still have better coaches and facilities than us, that's the reality, and there is a pathway to the first team
We may be bottom of that league, but no other academy at our level has produced as many current PL players as ours. In addition, a good number of higher level (PL & Champ) clubs have only produced 5 or less!
So who are our six?
Pope
Gomez
Konsa
Shelvey
Lookman
(Was Karlan the other?)