Typical case in point of stepping stone club benefiting far more than training one. Increasing current 5% FIFA solidarity mechanism in such situations would be a fair step to incentivise training over trading in football.
Big fan of the recent strategy at RB Leipzig of bringing in French 🇫🇷 players from amateur clubs to continue their development at the academy.
A low-risk/high-reward pipeline, as the players are contractless, meaning that there are of course no transfer fees for their signature. Though they are raw, they still remain high-potential players, as we saw with Samba Konaté (2009) making his Bundesliga debut this season after only having joined last summer, already valued at €1M on Transfermarkt.
Him and Prosper Kingue (2010) are the first two examples, but I'm sure there are plenty more to come in the near future.
Seeing reports that Bayern München are only prioritising 'super elite' players in the transfer market and will fill the rest of their squad with home-grown academy graduates. That should be the squad-building blueprint for every elite club with high-performing academies.
🔵🔴🚨𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐀 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐅𝐘 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐒! 🇪🇸👀
To avoid Dro case
◉Reserve team debut:€10M RC
◉First team debut:€100M RC
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🗣️💎 RB Leipzig director Marcel Schäfer: "Yan Diomande? "We saw the data and immediately knew that we had to take a detailed look at the player, both on video and in live matches, and that’s what we did."
"Our advantage was that we were there before he had even played 200 minutes in the league. We already knew he had the profile we were looking for that summer."
"We didn’t need to have five conversations about signing him because the profile was clear. It was a 100% match from our side.... We were even in touch with Jürgen Klopp and Mario Gomez, who saw the data and video clips, and everybody said ‘go, go, go.’." (@bulinewsdotcom)
@TheCult0f @MattFitz94 Brilliant thread but would it be possible to make a small tutorial on how to use Matt's spreadsheet as I can't figure out how to make it work myself?
@BadcnFaces@Arsenal @EASPORTSFIFA @FIFER_Mods When i change the ID on a player it always shows the wrong face. Does somebody have an idea why this keeps happening.