Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.
Another academy prospect poached
lawhite
Posts: 15
In 2/3 years he could of been playing men’s football, but instead he will be stuck in the reserve and sent out on loan until he’s 26 and probably wasted his best years. 🤷🏻♂️
1
Comments
-
Not good, there must be money involved somewhere, smells...3
-
As a Cat 2 academy we're powerless to stop Cat 1 academies signing our kids when they choose.
We get a few hundred thousand. The maximum at 17 is £400k IIRC but we'll probably get less as he is younger.
The system is deliberately loaded to favour the bigger, richer Cat 1 clubs and there is nothing we can do about it other than becoming one ourselves which the current SMT don't see as a priority as it costs too much and we have a productive academy anyway.
And he, or his parents, may have been offered some "inducements" but look at Mason Burstow. On more money, better facilities and played in the Chelsea first time this season even if he's been loaned out now.9 -
Like Burstow and Beadle? Both are playing at a higher level (Beadle would have been sent out on loan to a National League or League 2 club instead of being an ever present in a side that is on course for automatic promotion) than they would have been had they stayed with us, with better coaching and on ten times the amount of money. It's no different to when we take a youngster from a non league academy.4
-
Makes me sick the way these bloody money clubs entice these youngsters, not just ours, with big money and promises of the "Big Time"...only to end up wherever on loan or nowhere...😫8
-
As much as we love Charlton it's the nature of the industry we are in that the bigger boys will pick these players up - just as we can pick up from Cat 2 and Cat 3 academies. A club for these guys is a stepping stone to get where they want to be. Some will remain loyal to the club that nurtured them and others will go with the money.
Seeing how cutthroat it is at the professional level it's hard to blame some of these players really when they literally have the weight of their family sometimes resting on their young shoulders. Sadly this is when the vultures swoop in and offer them all sorts of riches without ANY consideration for the player's welfare and happiness. The parents get coerced into something and they in turn, sometimes unwittingly, put pressure on the player to take the deal.
The predatory actions of some clubs and agents really annoy me.
Good luck to Chizzy. I saw him play a couple of times and he has a lot of potential and it's up to Chelsea now to tease it out of him....or throw him on the scrapheap in a couple if years9 -
do we not take kids from other academies ?4
-
Yep, it is exactly how the food chain works. Chelsea pinch from us, we pinch from Staines/Bury/Welling/Orient etc.MrOneLung said:do we not take kids from other academies ?4 -
Henry Irving said:As a Cat 2 academy we're powerless to stop Cat 1 academies signing our kids when they choose.
We get a few hundred thousand. The maximum at 17 is £400k IIRC but we'll probably get less as he is younger.
The system is deliberately loaded to favour the bigger, richer Cat 1 clubs and there is nothing we can do about it other than becoming one ourselves which the current SMT don't see as a priority as it costs too much and we have a productive academy anyway.
And he, or his parents, may have been offered some "inducements" but look at Mason Burstow. On more money, better facilities and played in the Chelsea first time this season even if he's been loaned out now.
And then we actually employed and paid the "brains" behind it.
We should be CAT1 purely for the level of talent we have bought through for decades. Of course, even if we were this lad would likely have gone to Chelsea.
Never mind, he's 15, I had never heard of him and in all likelihood never will again.1 -
Kids or any players joining us from lower ranked clubs are furthering their careers with a sensible move.
Kids or players leaving us for higher ranked clubs are greedy bastards who will crash and burn.
18 -
Sponsored links:
-
He just needed to speak to Mason Burstow and realise that being loaned out and playing in front of 43k + fans isn't all it’s cracked up to be when he could have been playing in front of 1500 Charlton fans with our mouth watering cup tie against Aston Villa u21s nonetheless to look forward to20
-
Nailed it!Henry Irving said:Kids or any players joining us from lower ranked clubs are furthering their careers with a sensible move.
Kids or players leaving us for higher ranked clubs are greedy bastards who will crash and burn.0 -
There should be some sort of ‘sell-on’ clause option for clubs who have players poached. That would encourage clubs to keep their academies open.Henry Irving said:As a Cat 2 academy we're powerless to stop Cat 1 academies signing our kids when they choose.
We get a few hundred thousand. The maximum at 17 is £400k IIRC but we'll probably get less as he is younger.
The system is deliberately loaded to favour the bigger, richer Cat 1 clubs and there is nothing we can do about it other than becoming one ourselves which the current SMT don't see as a priority as it costs too much and we have a productive academy anyway.
And he, or his parents, may have been offered some "inducements" but look at Mason Burstow. On more money, better facilities and played in the Chelsea first time this season even if he's been loaned out now.Would only require a fairly simple rule change.4 -
Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.2
-
Yes, but it would be harder and they'd have to pay more IIRC, possibly enough to deter them..killerandflash said:Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.2 -
Not sure that it would deter Chelsea - they've spent over £1bn in the last two years and half of those purchased will probably never make it as regulars.Henry Irving said:
Yes, but it would be harder and they'd have to pay more IIRC, possibly enough to deter them..killerandflash said:Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.3 -
Exactly, as long as they make a profit overall, sod the ones that don't make it...commodity marketAddick Addict said:
Not sure that it would deter Chelsea - they've spent over £1bn in the last two years and half of those purchased will probably never make it as regulars.Henry Irving said:
Yes, but it would be harder and they'd have to pay more IIRC, possibly enough to deter them..killerandflash said:Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.0 -
His parents were moved by Chelsea's offer. To a bigger house
6 -
They would have to pay more, but then a Cat 1 academy costs a LOT more to run...Henry Irving said:
Yes, but it would be harder and they'd have to pay more IIRC, possibly enough to deter them..killerandflash said:Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.1 -
Quite ironic that Bellingham came out of a Category 2 academy.
2 -
Sponsored links:
-
Indeed but you are more likely to keep players like this and can nick players off other non-cat 1 players with impunitykillerandflash said:
They would have to pay more, but then a Cat 1 academy costs a LOT more to run...Henry Irving said:
Yes, but it would be harder and they'd have to pay more IIRC, possibly enough to deter them..killerandflash said:Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.0 -
But then he went for £25m as a 17 year old to a German club and with probable add ons it is difficult to argue that Birmingham didn't get some valueChunes said:Quite ironic that Bellingham came out of a Category 2 academy.0 -
Not about value. The point was that this Cat 1 - Cat 2 stuff is nonsense. The soon-to-be best player in the world came out of Birmingham.Addick Addict said:
But then he went for £25m as a 17 year old to a German club and with probable add ons it is difficult to argue that Birmingham didn't get some valueChunes said:Quite ironic that Bellingham came out of a Category 2 academy.
Plus more than half the regular England eleven: Pickford, Stones, Maguire, Walker, Trippier, Jude, Henderson, Sterling, etc.. all out of Cat 2's or academies now classed as Cat 2's.
1 -
I don't want to wish a young player ill and I won't but if these sort of exits don't work out for the player it could help us in the longer term, especially if the youngsters that come through the first team are going on to bigger and better things.1
-
Exactly this. Chelsea and City sign kids from other category one clubs all the time.killerandflash said:Even if we were a Cat 1 academy, Chelsea could still poach players from us.
Yes they pay a bit more but i'm pretty sure a couple of hundred thousand more isn't going to deter them from signing a player who could be worth 15m in 4 years time.0 -
Doesn't their academy make a profit when very few make it to their first team?1
-
Down to Bellingham though, as he signed a contract to make sure Birmingham got a big fee. Hence why he is so worshipped thereAddick Addict said:
But then he went for £25m as a 17 year old to a German club and with probable add ons it is difficult to argue that Birmingham didn't get some valueChunes said:Quite ironic that Bellingham came out of a Category 2 academy.5 -
Not sure that us sticking a £25m release clause for all our youngsters would work or, for that matter, any would be silly enough to sign such a contract. Didn't Joe Gomez sign a new contract to help us and James Beadle do likewise?killerandflash said:
Down to Bellingham though, as he signed a contract to make sure Birmingham got a big fee. Hence why he is so worshipped thereAddick Addict said:
But then he went for £25m as a 17 year old to a German club and with probable add ons it is difficult to argue that Birmingham didn't get some valueChunes said:Quite ironic that Bellingham came out of a Category 2 academy.1 -
Gomez did I think but Beadle was just poached. The Bellingham scenario worked because not only is he a great player he is a Birmingham fan. Our academy players are more likely to be Chelsea fans than Charlton ones so we’ve got little chance of keeping them around if Chelsea/Arsenal come sniffingAddick Addict said:
Not sure that us sticking a £25m release clause for all our youngsters would work or, for that matter, any would be silly enough to sign such a contract. Didn't Joe Gomez sign a new contract to help us and James Beadle do likewise?killerandflash said:
Down to Bellingham though, as he signed a contract to make sure Birmingham got a big fee. Hence why he is so worshipped thereAddick Addict said:
But then he went for £25m as a 17 year old to a German club and with probable add ons it is difficult to argue that Birmingham didn't get some valueChunes said:Quite ironic that Bellingham came out of a Category 2 academy.0
