What's with this trend of letting decent young players leave for free?kippax4ever said:Well here one..to ponder on
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@BluePhil8 said:What's with this trend of letting decent young players leave for free?kippax4ever said:Well here one..to ponder on
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He didn't go for free, Groningen paid us £430,000 with 6 months left on his contract (worryingly Lopes is now down to 12 months on his).
My guess is this is standard practice to monitor former youth players in case they reach City's level, then they can return as club-trained players. Barcelona do it with their former academy lads.
Damocles said:LoveCity said:@BluePhil8 said:What's with this trend of letting decent young players leave for free?
He didn't go for free, Groningen paid us £430,000 with 6 months left on his contract (worryingly Lopes is now down to 12 months on his).
My guess is this is standard practice to monitor former youth players in case they reach City's level, then they can return as club-trained players. Barcelona do it with their former academy lads.
Yep.
There's a very realistic view that Lopes, Rekik and Denayer may all leave the club this summer because we are unwilling to play them in the first team and they don't want to wait around whilst we decide whether we're going to be shithouses again or not. Lopes has 12 months and will certainly not be looking at another loan deal now he's playing first team football at Lille and gaining a bit of a following across Europe too. Rekik is already gone bar a shocking turn of events. Denayer has repeatedly said whilst he has been on loan that he isn't staying at Celtic because he is going to come back and expects to be in our first team squad. With Demichelis being given another year and Boyata having nowhere else to go, there's a potential scenario where he'll not get the guarantees of playing opportunity and just walk.
Rekik said, “They want to extend and then send me somewhere else again.”
The centre back has spent the last two seasons on loan with PSV Eindhoven, and is open to a third, “It certainly would not be punishment for another year to play for PSV. There is no decision yet.”