João Pedro: 17 y/o Fluminense Striker

Div1872 said:
Drgriffen

You’re should be contacting the club with a few prospects to scout

You might help identify a gem or two

At least you have some me intel to pursue
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I doubt we'll be looking in this market for a while. I'll fully admit I'm biased in that I would love to see us look at players in Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador etc.........but finding a gem comes with risks (and costs). I don't think we are in that place, yet.

Be assured, though, if they need to get in touch they know how to. :)
 
drgriffen said:
I doubt we'll be looking in this market for a while. I'll fully admit I'm biased in that I would love to see us look at players in Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador etc.........but finding a gem comes with risks (and costs). I don't think we are in that place, yet.

Be assured, though, if they need to get in touch they know how to. :)
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I would imagine that any players from that region wouldn’t be gave a work permit anyway.
 
drgriffen said:
Agreed.

I was raving about Musso and Pussetto for ages. I could have seen the latter doing a real turn for us.
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Yeah, I think he’ll be a really good player and that’s a good place to develop.

I’d really like to think we’ll start looking at the SA markets sooner rather than later.[/QUOTE]
 
Opta said:
I would imagine that any players from that region wouldn’t be gave a work permit anyway.
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It would certainly be more difficult, but many south American players also hold joint European passports so that might make it a bit easier
 
aghalee_hero said:
How did they get a work permit for him?
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Easiest thing would be to get an appeal, then get information on players in his age bracket and show that he is more talented and not taking a place from them.

I’m sure some Tim on the appeal panel when we signed Coulibaly tried to knock us back as he felt we should sign McGinn instead.
 
Opta said:
I would imagine that any players from that region wouldn’t be gave a work permit anyway.
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A lot of Brazilian players have European heritage ie Italian and German and Portugal ( obviously)so they qualify for EU citizenship, I know with Italy if they have Italian grandparents etc its guaranteed
 
Watford seem to have a good presence in SA for scouting young players, they have a young Colombian chap on loan in La Liga who has impressed, winger i think cant recall his name.
 
According to the report in Globo, there is a clause in the pre-contract deal with Watford which, to cut a long story short, means another club can pay a fee to Watford via Fluminense, to break it. But that would mean he'd cost a fair amount for a young player.
 
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