Not a surprise given he has not been featuring in the youth games this season that I saw lists for. How long was he with us I wonder? One of the many sad things about modern football is you simply cannot build a squad of talented youngsters and rise through the leagues as they go before you have the chance.
Maybe next time our academy staff visit an another club and they are asked who's our most promising youngster they should say no one they are all rubbish.
I don't get this attitude, he is a young kid who was offered the chance to play for a massive club in another country on presumably lots of money.
Even as a huge Charlton fan I would be tempted. Good luck to him, I just hope we have a sell on clause that comes in after the rat departs.
Not to mention a Champions League club with a lengthy history of developing and nurturing players. If he'd gone to West Ham I'd be annoyed because it would feel like something of a sideways move. But with Benfica he has the chance both to develop and know that they will play young players.
It's unfortunate. Obviously I wish he'd stayed with us as I think he probably would have made his senior debut this season, but I also understand why going somewhere with elite facilities seems more enticing than what we currently have.
He's 16 and we're a club playing in league one who aren't even giving our kids bottled water and food at our training ground. He's been offered a contract by a European side known for developing talent no doubt on a lot more money than he's currently getting.
Why should he show any loyalty? It's a job to him, he's probably not a fan.
How much loyalty would you show your current employer if you were offered a job at a much bigger company on more money? My notice would be handed in tomorrow.
He's 16 and we're a club playing in league one who aren't even giving our kids bottled water and food at our training ground. He's been offered a contract by a European side known for developing talent no doubt on a lot more money than he's currently getting.
Why should he show any loyalty? It's a job to him, he's probably not a fan.
How much loyalty would you show your current employer if you were offered a job at a much bigger company on more money? My notice would be handed in tomorrow.
He's 16 and we're a club playing in league one who aren't even giving our kids bottled water and food at our training ground. He's been offered a contract by a European side known for developing talent no doubt on a lot more money than he's currently getting.
Why should he show any loyalty? It's a job to him, he's probably not a fan.
How much loyalty would you show your current employer if you were offered a job at a much bigger company on more money? My notice would be handed in tomorrow.
If he's under 17 he won't have a pro contract, so wouldn't have been on any money at all. I guess the regs are likely different in different countries?
BTW, why anyone should even consider still being in Valley Gold is beyond comprehension. It just subsidises Roland and pays to train kids who then fuck off elsewhere. Madness.
He's 16 and we're a club playing in league one who aren't even giving our kids bottled water and food at our training ground. He's been offered a contract by a European side known for developing talent no doubt on a lot more money than he's currently getting.
Why should he show any loyalty? It's a job to him, he's probably not a fan.
How much loyalty would you show your current employer if you were offered a job at a much bigger company on more money? My notice would be handed in tomorrow.
If he's under 17 he won't have a pro contract, so wouldn't have been on any money at all. I guess the regs are likely different in different countries?
BTW, why anyone should even consider still being in Valley Gold is beyond comprehension. It just subsidises Roland and pays to train kids who then fuck off elsewhere. Madness.
If you include Aribo and Dijksteel, who underwent at least part of their youth development at Charlton, then 7 of the matchday 18 on Saturday came through our youth system at one time of another. Admittedly Solly was several years ago now, but lets not act like the youth system serves no purpose just because not every single player that enters it comes out the other end.
The club ditches players when they are deemed not good enough, if a player feels they have moved to level above and beyond what Charlton can currently offer, then why do they owe the club a level of loyalty it probably wouldn't show to the player?
He's 16 and we're a club playing in league one who aren't even giving our kids bottled water and food at our training ground. He's been offered a contract by a European side known for developing talent no doubt on a lot more money than he's currently getting.
Why should he show any loyalty? It's a job to him, he's probably not a fan.
How much loyalty would you show your current employer if you were offered a job at a much bigger company on more money? My notice would be handed in tomorrow.
If he's under 17 he won't have a pro contract, so wouldn't have been on any money at all. I guess the regs are likely different in different countries?
BTW, why anyone should even consider still being in Valley Gold is beyond comprehension. It just subsidises Roland and pays to train kids who then fuck off elsewhere. Madness.
If you include Aribo and Dijksteel, who underwent at least part of their youth development at Charlton, then 7 of the matchday 18 on Saturday came through our youth system at one time of another. Admittedly Solly was several years ago now, but lets not act like the youth system serves no purpose just because not every single player that enters it comes out the other end.
The club ditches players when they are deemed not good enough, if a player feels they have moved to level above and beyond what Charlton can currently offer, then why do they owe the club a level of loyalty it probably wouldn't show to the player?
So what? Where are we? Mid-table League One. As alternative would be to just scrap the youth set-up - like Brentford - because it's a mug's game made untenable by the FA and the Premier League. Spend the money instead on hoovering up players on the cheap that others have nurtured? Like Konsa. In any event, why should mug punters subsidise a billionaire's running costs? I'm sure they've got better things to be doing with their money.
And they don't owe the club loyalty, that's not what I said.
I honestly think the rules on this type of poaching young players need changing. If a big club like Benfica can grab young academy players for next to nothing they will continue to do so. I would introduce a new rule something along the lines of.
A. If you take the youngster it will cost you one million. Or. B.if you eventually sell the player the club he came from receives 50 % of the fee. That way smaller clubs would not be raped the way they are now.
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We probably got a few hundred thousand in comp if we were lucky
Defoe the 2nd right there.
Maybe next time our academy staff visit an another club and they are asked who's our most promising youngster they should say no one they are all rubbish.
Even as a huge Charlton fan I would be tempted. Good luck to him, I just hope we have a sell on clause that comes in after the rat departs.
Can you explain why you are even talking about loyalty?
It's unfortunate. Obviously I wish he'd stayed with us as I think he probably would have made his senior debut this season, but I also understand why going somewhere with elite facilities seems more enticing than what we currently have.
Why should he show any loyalty? It's a job to him, he's probably not a fan.
How much loyalty would you show your current employer if you were offered a job at a much bigger company on more money? My notice would be handed in tomorrow.
Roland in trying to save a few pennies by stopping bottled water, might well have lost himself millions.
Penny wise, pound foolish. That's you Roland, huh?
In fact, the only good news about it is that it's bad news for Roland.
BTW, why anyone should even consider still being in Valley Gold is beyond comprehension. It just subsidises Roland and pays to train kids who then fuck off elsewhere. Madness.
The club ditches players when they are deemed not good enough, if a player feels they have moved to level above and beyond what Charlton can currently offer, then why do they owe the club a level of loyalty it probably wouldn't show to the player?
And they don't owe the club loyalty, that's not what I said.
If a big club like Benfica can grab young academy players for next to nothing they will continue to do so.
I would introduce a new rule something along the lines of.
A. If you take the youngster it will cost you one million.
Or.
B.if you eventually sell the player the club he came from receives 50 % of the fee.
That way smaller clubs would not be raped the way they are now.