[Albion] How are young signings like Moises looked after by Brighton?

[dazzer6666]

I like the idea of a Brunorphanage, in which young and lonesome talents from around the Spanish-speaking world live in his large, slightly eerie, mansion, being fed and bettered as a person/footballer.
Failing that, and painfully similar, mutant footballers who find refuge and purpose in the vast manor of Professor Xaltor, learning to fight fiends such as Zahagneto.

Replicated across most clubs I'd imagine. In South London for example, there is a small, muddy field - surrounded by fly-tipping debris and infested by stray dogs if you can picture the scene - where there are a few mildew-covered caravans on bricks with the odd broken window. A fat, greasy-haired hag in a housecoat with a roll-up drooping from the corner of her mouth can be heard at 8am every morning bellowing 'Oi you facking Eagle Academy lot, get yer breakfast and fack off to training, I've got to get to the Bingo'.

 

[m@goo]

There's a whole Amazon Prime documentary in this. Fascinating stuff. Honestly.

 

[dazzer6666]

I used to work at a posh Private Bank that had lots of professional footballers as clients.
The players would be looked after by the liaison officer and we would go in and sort out bank accounts etc for them. It was an educational process, especially for the younger players from abroad.
Footballers are extremely well looked after by their clubs, especially in the Premier League.

Likewise (3 different private banks in fact over 25 years)...........spoonfeeding doesn't even begin to describe it.............

 

[Rookie]

There's a whole Amazon Prime documentary in this. Fascinating stuff. Honestly.

Got a link or title?

 

[Gwylan]

I used to work at a posh Private Bank that had lots of professional footballers as clients.
The players would be looked after by the liaison officer and we would go in and sort out bank accounts etc for them. It was an educational process, especially for the younger players from abroad.
Footballers are extremely well looked after by their clubs, especially in the Premier League.

Times have changed. Forty years ago, I was working at the Amex as a summer job, filing rejected applications for an Amex card. I noticed that one of the people turned down was a 1st Division footballer and England U21 player (and future full international).

Different world now

 

[schmunk]

Replicated across most clubs I'd imagine. In South London for example, there is a small, muddy field - surrounded by fly-tipping debris and infested by stray dogs if you can picture the scene - where there are a few mildew-covered caravans on bricks with the odd broken window. A fat, greasy-haired hag in a housecoat with a roll-up drooping from the corner of her mouth can be heard at 8am every morning bellowing 'Oi you facking Eagle Academy lot, get yer breakfast and fack off to training, I've got to get to the Bingo'.

Oooh, you can almost* smell it.









* thank goodness

 

[Arthur]

I am not sure about the younger lads but the 'first teamers' are usually put into a hotel. The club has two player minders - Gibson and a lady whose name escapes me - and they help them find a property to rent eventually. Very few of the overseas lot seem to buy.

That video the club put out yesterday looked very much like the art work they have on the walls in the Jurys Inn by the station and that is certainly where Ulloa is staying in the video posted on this thread.

Poor lad if he's got to quarantine in there. That said I guess there aren't (m)any stag and hen dos in town at the moment.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Gibbo?

He certainly used to but I think he might have an assistant now

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Thats him. Steve I think.

Yep Steve Gibbon.

 

[Wozza]

I wonder if he will - or if he'll be allowed to - bring a senior family member with him - maybe n uncle or a grandad if mum and dad have other kids to look after back home?

Or one his 9 (NINE) older siblings.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

My mate's old man played for the Albion (Maurice McLafferty) and when we went to Dick Knight's book signing at the Ropetackle my mate asked Dick whether he remembered his old man. Dick was delighted - Maurice had been an early hero who he'd got to know as his family put up new signings at their house while they settled in the area. Dick Knight goes back a long way with the Albion.

 

[m@goo]

Got a link or title?

No I mean they should make one

 

[Mancgull]

I used to work at a posh Private Bank that had lots of professional footballers as clients.
The players would be looked after by the liaison officer and we would go in and sort out bank accounts etc for them. It was an educational process, especially for the younger players from abroad.
Footballers are extremely well looked after by their clubs, especially in the Premier League.

I avoided having to look after them and their horrible agents but heard loads of stories of North West based footballers. One of my favourites was a quite famous Spanish footballer who couldn’t work out the deductions on his first pay packet. My colleague had to explain the concept of paying income tax in the UK as apparently the player’s previous Spanish club had ‘sorted that for him’.
Frankly I’m surprised some of them can wipe their own arses.

 

[AZ Gull]

Steve Gibson - Gibbo

Steve Gibbons

Yep Steve Gibbon.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

I know mines correct because he is a mate

 

[Superphil]

I know mines correct because he is a mate

I know mine's correct, because I know it

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I know mines correct because he is a mate

I know mine's correct, because I know it

I'm happy to be corrected. I was nearly right.

 

[Munkfish]

Im sure things have changed now. But Nathen Jones lived across the road from me with a family when he first moved to the Albion. The guy worked for the club at the time.

 

[AZ Gull]

I know mine's correct, because I know it

Maybe you need to un-know it!



Steve Gibbon - linkedin

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

Moises is a young player aged 19 coming to a strange country and he probably cannot speak English. Would he be in a hotel with other youngsters? Would he be with a Spanish family in Hove? Would he be in Brunos spare room? How would he get to training? Can anyone help please?

Not sure about Brighton, but I have a friend in Liverpool who is a support family for overseas players. They have had three players, aged between 14-19. They effectively become like a foster family. The kid gets picked up and dropped off for training each day, eat with the family etc. Their current lodger has been with them for about 4 years and is due to move out soon. He’s about 20 now. I suspect Moises will be put with a suitable host family until he settles. Obviously it depends on the player how quickly he wants his own place, which might be immediately, in which case he will probably have a mentor in one of the older squad members?