16 May 2023 10:50:17
Any news on the lad from Wolves that we are signing? 800k for a 14 year old. he must be good.
Harvey Owen from Wolves.

1.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 11:54:48
Ridiculous and indicative of where the game has gone. 5% chance he makes it.

95% chance he doesn't get much personal coaching alongside all the other academy players we're speculatively stockpiling, spends his late teens farmed out on loan at random clubs before being flipped for a small profit and disappearing off the face of the earth by 21.

Big clubs are all guilty of it. They sign these young players in bulk for a collective profit. Children aren't assets, sneaky agents are far too involved from a young age and no doubt parents see the dollar signs. More regulation needed urgently.

2.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 12:23:16
800K for a 14 year old? My goodness.

3.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 12:54:03
its a lot of money but I bet none if you moaned what we paid for Elliot when he was 16. well the fee we ended up agreeing in a tribunal would of been a lot more then that.

4.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 13:02:16
We actually sign a lot less players than the other big clubs Thomas, club made a deliberate attempt at quality over quantity a few years back so not much stockpiling going on. Certainly nothing like the likes of Chelsea antway.

5.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 13:20:47
Paid similar money for Jordan Ibe if I’m not mistaken. Give the lad a chance though! Could be the next xavi, or even better, the next Curtis jones!

6.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 13:35:11
Lads for that kind of money I could sell my 2 and come out with a tidyvprofit.

7.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 14:38:34
Didn't we spend up to £2m on a 14 year old Sheyi Ojo back in 2011? Don't think it's a sign of the times.

8.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 14:56:39
BR if that is true regarding Sheyi Ojo then, it is what it is.

9.) 16 May 2023
16 May 2023 15:37:43
Emika obi was bought for millions at 15 and went nowhere it happens all the time with all clubs.

10.) 17 May 2023
17 May 2023 01:59:59
We paid £450k (rising to £2m) for a 15-year old Sterling way back in 2010 as well.

11.) 17 May 2023
17 May 2023 04:00:14
We signed Ibe from Wycombe in December 2011 when he turned 16 for €600k and we sold him to Bournemouth four and a half years later for €18m.

We signed Ojo from MK Dons in November 2011 as a 14 year old and he left on a free to Cardiff in 2022.

Perhaps the £800k will be nearer to £30m in 4 or 5 years time - maybe more with inflation? Or perhaps having loaned him out for ten years we will release him for free. “You pays your money, you takes your chances”:as they say.