I am sure they signed a NIL deal for a girl who played football when she was like 10/11... I might be exaggerating with 6 but they definitely push the boundaries... and the brand ambassador thing is another method for them to collect young talent and the parents are probably the one signing paperwork on behalf of said child. I also read somewhere that there are little league baseball and softball players with agents... what do they need agents for? Anyway, I am moving on... not even sure how we arrived here... I think someone said Tel had signed a contract with Nike at 14... what a waste of money that was.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Players get made to move eventually
Heads up: You've lost this debate already.
You are either exaggerating or the information you've read was exaggerating.
Professionalization of minors in sports is definitely more prominent in European football than it has ever been in American sports.
Hojbjerg was immense for them - if he was garbage do you think they would have offered him a new deal. Not a chance.Marseille did a loan-to-buy of PEH covering the final year of his contract.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg transfer: Tottenham midfielder signs for Ligue 1 club Marseille
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg has joined Marseille from Spurs on an initial loan deal; the midfielder made 39 appearances last season, but only 10 were starts as Ange Postecoglou increasingly favoured Yves Bissouma and Pape Sarr; Hojbjerg had entered the final year of his contractwww.skysports.com
It's just a deferred payment. Galatasaray is not buying Bissouma a year from now, they are buying him right now.
You clearly are confused. It's an obligation, it means they will sign him permanently, it's a deferred payment, the end.
If true; why have United got that long list of players they're stuck with?
Add gill to the list and I’m in
I'll get a grip....
of Levys bald head and give it a squeeze
Relax..... Be like water.
You are clearly confused. They will sign him permanently IF he performs. If he doesn't, his contract with us expires and they will not offer him a new one. He will be a free agent. The end.
But they didn't have that choice, it was all finalized last summer. The "loan" part of the "loan plus obligation" is just an accounting fiction.
Some of the contractual mechanics here confuse me too, but this is a durable enough part of silly season for us to know very clearly that this is not true.
The new contract as part of the obligation to buy ALREADY EXISTS when the "loan" is finalized. The deal is already done.
Youtube highlights make Clinton N'Jie look like the 2nd coming of Maradona.
It was entirely desperate, and signed on deadline day. Whether we were working on it prior is largely irrelevant, we were thrust into a position of desperation by the club circumstances from Jan 1st and took until deadline day to pay a mammoth loan fee for a youth player who had largely accomplished nothing of note in senior football.
Clearly he was known by scouts and those "in the know" on youth football across Europe or he wouldn't have gone to BM for huge money as a teenager, that's evident, but you are claiming a completely different thing to me, the only reason any Spurs fan knew his name in January is because, as you say, his name was mentioned as a makeweight in the Kane deal. Beyond that there is virtually no reason, certainly not his performances for Bayern, why the average football fan in Europe would know of him.
I just don't believe that we didn't view the £8m as being leveraged to some degree into making a deal, I predicted as much before the season even closed, maybe as soon as the deal was announced tbh I knew he would be a permanent Spurs player come the summer window, regardless of his performances in lilywhite.
So fingers crossed he's not another French dud winger, god knows how many of those have flopped here at this point.
We won't be buying anyone today or tomorrow
All the scouts, Levy, Lange etc will be in Grimsby.
Yanited's previous entry into round two of the Carabao Cup was in 2014 and ended in embarrassing fashion with a 4-0 defeat at then League One MK Dons, who had an 18-year-old Dele Alli in their side.
They will be hoping they can repeat the feat and save a few quid.
All the scouts, Levy, Lange etc will be in Grimsby.
Yanited's previous entry into round two of the Carabao Cup was in 2014 and ended in embarrassing fashion with a 4-0 defeat at then League One MK Dons, who had an 18-year-old Dele Alli in their side.
They will be hoping they can repeat the feat and save a few quid.
Fucking hell mate you can't be this stupid. It will be contractually agreed that they have to sign him, regardless of how he performs. How long he has left on a contract with us is immaterial, they are committing to buying him next summer if it is an obligation, that is how it works.
Where it starts getting confusing is when there's an option that can become an obligation if certain parameters are met.
Kulusevski's transfer was a weird labyrinthine thing that way.
Everything you're using to debate relies upon gut feeling and refusing aspects that we do know.
Let's call it a day.
My main concern is that he gets a GENUINE chance to prove the angry mob wrong.
Such is the risk with young players; irrespective of nationality.