Cardiff City set to lose another youngster to Man City

[WJ99mobile]

Man City and Chelsea just stock pile players to sell on for profit. The players they really think can make the first team will have been on their books from a young age, or the top foreign talent they sign from other European clubs. In my opinion when they are signing 15 year olds from lower league acadmeys its with sole purpose of making a profit on the 250k they need to fork out (and probably another £400k to buy the family a nice house and car and move them to the area).

So why not make it compulsory that any player that has compensation payout automatically has a 50% sell on clause?

[J R Hartley]

So why not make it compulsory that any player that has compensation payout automatically has a 50% sell on clause?

1. As Nobodys Rep says it probably needs to be voted on to bring in suhc a dramatic change to the rules and the big clubs who are currently taking advantage of the system have the most power and will be looking out for their own interests.

2. As the boys in question are effectively still children I would imagine there would be some employment contract hurdles to overcome. You cant just hold a childs registration agaisnt their will in the same way you cant hold onto an adult players registration ie the Bosman rule.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

So why not make it compulsory that any player that has compensation payout automatically has a 50% sell on clause?

Re this, and other comments, the system is not broken. It is working exactly as intended, to favour the big clubs. I don’t like it, most people don’t but there’s bugger all we can do about it and it isn’t going to change.

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re this, and other comments, the system is not broken. It is working exactly as intended, to favour the big clubs. I don’t like it, most people don’t but there’s bugger all we can do about it and it isn’t going to change.

Fans staying away and empty stadiums would work. We don't realise the power we have tbh. Radical change only happens with radical actions and convictions.

[LA Bluebird]

Fans staying away and empty stadiums would work. We don't realise the power we have tbh. Radical change only happens with radical actions and convictions.

How would that solve anything? The big clubs would sell out to tourists and the prawn sandwich brigade if nobody who lived within 50 miles of them went to games, and even if in the long run ticket sales suffered they get hundreds of millions from TV rights and European competition. The only thing fans staying away would do is kill football below the Prem and convince a lot of owners to walk away for good.

I think the depth of feeling over the Super League caught owners by surprise and they weren't ready to win the PR battle on short notice but was it to come up again in a year or two, I have no doubt it would succeed this time. Just look at what is going on at Man U and Spurs in the last few days, the fans don't matter in the slightest to these owners. Anyone who thinks the common fan has any say (at least outside of Germany) is clinging to nostalgia.

[Citizen's Nephew]

How would that solve anything? The big clubs would sell out to tourists and the prawn sandwich brigade if nobody who lived within 50 miles of them went to games, and even if in the long run ticket sales suffered they get hundreds of millions from TV rights and European competition. The only thing fans staying away would do is kill football below the Prem and convince a lot of owners to walk away for good.

I think the depth of feeling over the Super League caught owners by surprise and they weren't ready to win the PR battle on short notice but was it to come up again in a year or two, I have no doubt it would succeed this time. Just look at what is going on at Man U and Spurs in the last few days, the fans don't matter in the slightest to these owners. Anyone who thinks the common fan has any say (at least outside of Germany) is clinging to nostalgia.

I disagree. Empty grounds outside of these so-called super-clubs would be a massive message, a terrible look for the game. There's no point moaning about things and not doing something. I'm not talking about something that isn't coordinated between all the fanbases of all the clubs. It could happen. The professional game and clubs are dying below the top half of the PL and CL anyway. I'm not clinging to nostalgia. I'm clinging to collective power. We have it. We just don't use it.