NDC bear forever
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Nothing you can do when these huge clubs come in for them. Disappointing news nonetheless
https://www.footballinsider247.com/...to-join-pl-giants-after-snubbing-Ibrox-offer/
They have been the only website with any knowledge of our signings this summer. I’m sure @Crispy Bacon said the same rumour a few weeks ago.Quite a specific story to make up but that website doesn't sound the most legit?
I’m aware the rumour has been going about for awhile but this is the first an outlet has picked it up as far as I can see.This has been known for months.
That’s what Blackpool would have said.Another one nabbed.
Disappointing, but not much you can do.
That’s what Blackpool would have said.
Works both ways. Just need to keep producing players and we’ll get a few diamonds who don’t want to go elsewhere. Boys like the Mebudes just want a career as a footballer at the highest level they can get to.
Would we be due a development fee?
A few million cheersMan city (in England at least) now pay fees to clubs to avoid development tribunals usually so would imagine there will be a pay off to avoid anyone looking at their business after their previous!
Sorry, wasn’t having a go mate.Of course, which is why I said not much you can do. It's just the way it goes.
Would we be due a development fee?
Sorry, wasn’t having a go mate.
By the sound of things though, Dire has less quality than Dapo at the same age. Good luck to the boy.
Dire is a couple of years younger and was the most promising of the two. Dont know if thats still the case
Should be - provided we've offered him a pro contract I think. He signed up until next Summer but I think that's a Youth contract so doesn't count. Not certain of the rules at that age.
@rangeral and/or @elfideldo will probably know.
Its where we are in the food chain. City and Chelsea do it to us and we do it to other clubs to 'steal' the best of their potential talent.
We would be due around £90k on the statutory compensation rules, in Gilmour's case a bespoke agreement was reached. So take it as around £90k and a small percentage of any transfers up till the age of 23.
I knew you'd know. Thanks for the info mate. Yeah, the Gilmour deal also saw us fined if I recall correctly - though we did end up with far more money than we would otherwise.
Unfair to ask you but what's your views on young Dire? If you are uncomfortable answering on such a young lad - they are under enough pressure already IMHO - then feel free to ignore the question mate.
Disappointed if true, Dire is a really good player if a wee bit unpredictable at times. If I had to choose between him and his brother I would pick Dire. Better technique. In saying that he may not be the last to leave.
Kinda reinforces what I've hear before. Thank you.
I guess our relative success in recent years is having others take a closer look at what we have in our Academy - just as we will look at the likes of Aberdeen, Dundee United, Hibs etc. Seems to be the new transfer battleground. We take plenty from other clubs as you well know.
Whispers and rumours do suggest we could see a few go. Might be the only way some of them get 'real' football next season the way things are shaping up in Scotland. All we can do is try and ensure we get the appropriate recompense for their development.
No 16 year old kid is going to turn down Man City.
That's football.
To be fair Leon King rejected them. King being a Rangers fan probably helped a lot, no reason for any of these young boys who don’t support us to reject man city for usNo 16 year old kid is going to turn down Man City.
That's football.
I'm sure a told yous on the Kai Kennedy thread more were going NYC now mebude and more to come ,but I keep forgetting that they're not good enough or bad advisedNothing you can do when these huge clubs come in for them. Disappointing news nonetheless
Disappointed if true, Dire is a really good player if a wee bit unpredictable at times. If I had to choose between him and his brother I would pick Dire. Better technique. In saying that he may not be the last to leave.
Yes sir it’s all but done is the info I got.They have been the only website with any knowledge of our signings this summer. I’m sure @Crispy Bacon said the same rumour a few weeks ago.
Are you sure ? really?To be fair Leon King rejected them. King being a Rangers fan probably helped a lot, no reason for any of these young boys who don’t support us to reject man city for us
Starting to doubt the point of an academy if all we're doing is developing youngsters for other clubs.
I'm sure a told yous on the Kai Kennedy thread more were going NYC now mebude and more to come ,but I keep forgetting that they're not good enough or bad advised
We do exactly the same thing to other clubs as well though. Should they just scrap ALL Academies? Its just like the 'big boy's transfer market. There's clubs with bigger budgets who buy the likes of Morelos from us and then we buy the likes of Kent from Liverpool. Always been the way.
Anything I've ever heard suggested Dire was the more promising of the two. Difficult to say at that age, of course, and folk do have a tendency to say 'he's good, but his wee brother is better' regardless of the names involved LOL.