29 Jul 2015 19:05:19
Regarding transfers my personal opinion is that we are buying a lot of academy players to add to the ones that the club think are good enough to come through in a couple of years time.
We seem to have bought a few older more experienced players for the squad/team for the hear and now.
The reason for all this is that we will have a new part of Anfield to pay for so therefor will not be able to splash the cash in the next few years to pay for it. (Look how Arsenal balanced the books whilst paying for new stadium).
Feel sorry for the EDs in the next couple of years when we are only maybe buying 1 or 2 players and the questions why we are not buying everyone.
Also a question for the EDs.
When a homegrown player is sent on loan to another club, does that player become a homegrown at the loanee club or still homegrown at players original club?
{Ed002's Note - Players homegrown status remains with the player forever. So, taking Borini as an example, if he left to go to Dinamo Moscow on Friday and returned to play for Liverpool at the age of 34, he would still be home grown.
However, Gregory "Peckory" Dyke has other plans that would see him stripped of being HG as he wants to change the ruling from three years between 16-21 to three years beginning at 15 only. This is potentially devastating for football and he has not thought it through, as it will kick out the likes of Borini, Huth and others from being HG, but would also exclude any English born players who are not attached to a club until they are 16 or more. I can't see it happening.}
29 Jul 2015 19:55:31
Many thanks for your reply Ed002.
I think that the homegrown status needs an overhaul as some clubs like Man City for example get in so called HG players then they are hardly played (Adam Johnson, Jack Rodwell to name a couple). To my knowledge Richard Wright is still there and has just signed a new contract yet has never played for them. Surely that cannot be right so think if a HG player goes to a club he should have to play X amount of games a season. But this needs to be looked at by footballing people who know how the system works and fails and not by non footballing people.
Many thanks again for the knowledgeable reply and good luck for the rest of the window.
30 Jul 2015 00:59:16
Slaphead, that is their own tough titty. If they pad the squad with 8 Richard Wright style homegrown players then that leaves them with 17 over 21s in their squad and limits their options for rotation and injuries.
Nothing for us, or anybody else, to worry about.
30 Jul 2015 06:26:23
Hi Sean, whilst i understand what you are saying the point i am trying to make is that when a so called homegrown player goes to a big club they hardly ever get any playing time especially the youngsters so therefore cannot develop. Maybe they are happy to just waste 2 or 3 years of their footballing career to sit on the bench and get paid. I am involved in youth football and it really annoys me that some players and clubs are exploiting the system when there are genuine players who want to break into teams/clubs but are not given the chance because of the system.
31 Jul 2015 00:37:36
Slaphead, I actually don't think the system is really stopping that. If they are good enough then there would be no need to purchase 8 Richard Wright's as my example used above.
The best example I can think of for what you seem to be on about is Sinclair going from Swansea to Man City. I have never met anybody who ever thought he was good enough to get a game there. He was in and out of the Villa team whilst on loan this season after playing about 4 league games or something embarrassing over 3 seasons at City.
Jack Rodwell I thought at least had a chance. He had more potential, he was able to play both DM/CM and cover CB. At the time City weren't that strong there and one or two injuries and he'd have been in to the team. That being said though it was usually he was injured himself and his career looks like he'll have to be managed and wrapped in cotton wool for the next 8 years to get some 30 odd games out of him. I wouldn't have him in the Richard Wright category though.