Hull City’s Josh Tymon earns just £160 a week...

Didn't we pay Blackpool about £5m or something in compensation for Tom Ince?

The system is ****ed up. Lose a promising youngster under contract for nothing, lose a senior player who you failed to agree a contract with and if he's technically underage you get massive amounts of compensation, even if it wasn't your academy that trained him.

 

Ince had played a lot more senior games. Also I think we ended up settling before compensation was set by a tribunal.

 

No we paid about £1m. It's a completely different system for youth players to seniors.

 

How is that a reason that they should get more compensation? He wasn't a graduate of their academy and he was out of contract because they'd resisted selling him for several windows when they would have been entitled to a transfer fee.

 

Because it demonstrates the player is a higher quality? He doesn't have to be a graduate of their academy, he has to be U23.

 

I know, that's what I said. But it's completely wrong that that's the criteria.

They could have sold him for millions in one of the transfer windows before he left while he was still their player. Instead they kept hold of him and still managed to get a significant fee for someone who simply wasn't their player any more. It's the equivalent of us getting a fee for Ryan Taylor. Why is it different just because a player is over or under 23?

 

Because it's to stop bigger clubs poaching young talent who will naturally want to move on to progress their careers.

 

Contracts would do that. If your player doesn't want to sign another one, sell them in a window and get a transfer fee for them. What's the problem? Keeping the player until the end of his contract and still getting a fee is having your cake and eating it.

Surely a more pressing issue with respect to that, is the kids who are too young to be on a professional contract so come under the other system that Mr Hat described, and whose clubs get £56k for losing their best academy prospect. That's equivalent to getting a kick in the balls for your birthday and no cake.

 

Or more to the point, HE won't have triggered them! :-D

 

He's a ****, plain and simple. He just wants out with millions or in with millions, **** all else matters to the upstart bacon dodger.

 

No mooning by first teamers?

 

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