Jonny Smith

[John Neals Dynasty]

Originally Posted by Oldfan

If these youth players didn't have agents from a young age who are hawking them around to get their best slice of the pie you may have a chance of keeping a promising player, but there are 10 year olds who have them these days. And its not just at our club, every lower level club suffer from this, its what modern football has become, a commodity market.

Well said football is dying on its feet because of agents pimping out players, take the Pogba agent they are making millions out of players selling them to the highest bidder demanding huge cuts of the fee. Footballers have become like prostitutes.

The young centre half from Ajax joining Juventus at 19 when the sensible thing would of been to stay at Ajax for at least another season, no loyalty at clubs is caused through Agents wanting big bucks of the next transfer.
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[Rex Ham]

Originally Posted by Birdy

There was also Jordan Davies that season aswell, we could have had a quality left back and winger in the squad now had we kept them on, too much short term thinking going on with our rinse and repeat one year strategy!

We could do with Jordan Davies getting a game for Brighton, surely we'll be due an appearence fee ?

Failing that get him our on loan, if not to us then somewhere to generate some interest for a possible sell on fee
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[sparky]

Originally Posted by Birdy

The club would have sold him whoever was in charge. Since when do we progress any of our youth players. There was also Jordan Davies that season aswell, we could have had a quality left back and winger in the squad now had we kept them on, too much short term thinking going on with our rinse and repeat one year strategy!

Yep.

We have well and truly made our bed. Because we have chosen to go down this route it does put us under a lot of pressure with play offs being the minimum requirement under such a policy.