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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Château NoHo said:
Sarr will become a club-trained/HG player next August -- if I understand the conditions correctly -- that his loan to Metz doesn't affect his 3-year club affiliation requirement.
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It does affect it, the year he spent at Metz does not count for him so he won't become HG since this is his 2nd year in the team and he turns 21 in September, the rule is 3 years trained at club/nation between 15th and 21st birthday.
 
Château NoHo said:
HG rules/requirements are the main reason why English player values are (**mumbles under breath, regains composure**) at-a-premium.

Unsure if this outcome was an expected result, or an unintended consequence, and, if/how Brexit's meant to affect issuing work permits, etc.

Dier + Sanchez is squad-space-killer. Lloris and Reguilón as well.

This blog appears to be fairly regularly updated:
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The reason why HG rules were invented was to try to get clubs to play young English/HG players as clubs tended to find it easier to buy experienced players from abroad rather than train their own youngsters (but its an idea used in other european countries with slightly different rules).

Has it worked - yes to a limited extent as there are more better quality English/HG players now than their were say 10/20 years ago. But you only need to look at Spurs to see that in last decade assorted coaches have tended to overlook the idea of some sort of focus on bringing youngsters through. To put that into context Spurs had 3 players who won the u17 world cup in 2017, but none made it through Spurs, so its not lack of quality players, but the (un)willingness of coaches to play the kids or loan them out to bring them through.

The pricing of HG players comes back to how few come through the system, through coaches unwillingness to have a plan to bring them through - itself no big surprise when you know it might take 6 years to bring a youth player through, whilst average tenure of a PL coach is about 15 months !

The site you've posted is fine. Just need to know a little about the players to make it useable - for example we have Austin and Whiteman as HG GK's but we are only likely to use one as 3rd GK, loaning the other out, so little advantage in having two of them !.
 
Starks said:
If they got to the final, they'd miss four league games. A league cup semi final and two FA Cuo rounds mate.
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Right. I was thinking PL games. In the league cup we'll probably not be playing a full strength team anyway, depending on the opposition. Would be a good problem to have, as that would mean we would have reached the semis.
 
Brennan Johnson would be essentially a perfectly decent HG rotation option. For £50m you must be getting starting quality you simply must be.

If his name was Brennão Jonso from Fluminese how much buzz would he be getting solely off his performances?
 
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