Edin in the News

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but it would appear that the prospect of feeder clubs may well be receding thanks to proposed reforms to the international transfer system being put forward by FIFA:

FIFA stakeholders have backed ‘groundbreaking’ transfer reforms that include a limit on the number of loans teams can make. A Fifa task force recommended that clubs be limited to loaning six to eight players per season, because the current system can result in “stockpiling” and “sometimes prevents young players from fully developing their talent”. The internal report, commissioned by President Gianni Infantino as part of his commitment to reform the transfer system, also recommended that clubs be permitted to make just three loans to or from the same club in a season.

The wide-ranging proposals were ratified by the Fifa Football Stakeholders Committee at a meeting in London yesterday. They will now go before the Fifa Council at its next meeting in Kolkata, India, on October 26th for final approval.

https://trainingground.guru/articles/groundbreaking-fifa-transfer-reforms-clear-first-hurdle

This is great news for football, anything which reduces the viability of PL clubs hoarding players also reduces the likelihood of B Teams or feeder clubs being introduced lower down the league pyramid and will hopefully see the end of the reviled U23 experiment in the Checkatrade.

From a City perspective, whatever Edin's thoughts on feeder clubs are, it's not hard to see how our "development" model could put us in a good position to take advantage of the increase in decent young (U23) players that these proposed changes would likely bring to the market.

 

Many recent examples of players playing in the lower leagues and being successful higher up particularly with England.

Shows their is a pathway if they get the move at the right time

 

I think young players are either starting to get more demanding or more confident that they want to move on loan at first from big clubs.

Look at those players like Sancho and Neilson and Lookman who all went to Germany on loan or are in Germany now and proving themselves at the highest level. I think the German clubs have less pressure on the coaches and are more forgiven than in England so the players get the chance. They don’t just sack the managers and pay 10 million in compensation like we do over here.

In England we don’t have that. It’s all results now, now, now and if it doesn’t work we get rid and start again. Players like Ndong and Dijibodji at Sunderland who were mercenaries. I do not for one minute believe there was no young kid as good as them in the Sunderland youth team but we just sign players who are ready now.

Too much money and not enough patience.

 

Man Utd academy is streets ahead of everyone else when it comes to churning out professional footballers. If you look at the PL, Champ and L1 there are more Man Utd academy alumni playing in each of those divisions than any other academy. Being in the PL and having a Cat 1 academy doesn't automatically guarantee that you can produce decent players, at the end of 2017 Swansea boasted the 2nd worst record in the country when it came to the number of academy products playing professional football.

Of the 70 pro footballers in 16/17who started out in the Man Utd academy, how many played in the Man Utd first team? 10? Even if it's that many it means that there were still 60 pro standard players being kept out of the pool available to everyone else.

EPPP may have started out with the best intentions of creating great English players but it effectively stopped youth production outside of the PL, it is no longer viable for smaller clubs to invest in youth development because any decent prospects are snapped up by the Cat 1 academies for peanuts so the returns don't cover the costs. Lower league clubs aren't producing good young English players because there's no point, not because they are incapable.