Perhaps - but Carlos had already played 6 Europa League games for Lille when he joined so he’s already way ahead 4-5 years ahead
[Albion] Marc Leonard
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albionalex
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The club keep very close attention to all of our loan players. They will have a very good idea if he is good enough to compete in the first team or not.
Mancgull
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Sell for £300k but have a large sell on clause and a potential buy back option. Great way to nurture and then make a profit from developing players that aren’t up to our first team squad.
We know what we are doing.
We know what we are doing.
GT49er
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Disappointing if we don't at least have a look at him in pre-season - although I suppose the loan team will have been doing that all season. POTS (I think) in League1 is still not to be sniffed at.
I WILL be VERY disappointed if we let him go for £300M though. That would hardly cover the cost of paying him, training him and all the other expenses of developing a young player over the course of six years. Not sure what the answer is, but I'd have been looking at at least £1M.
I suppose it will happen increasingly now though - we'll have signed a youngster likely to get to our level and play for the 1st. team, only to find that after six years our standard is that much higher. That can't go on for ever, though - as this season has proved, we can't finish higher every season; perhaps in three of four years some of our current U18s WILL be breaking through to the first team (when we're lower mid-table again).
I WILL be VERY disappointed if we let him go for £300M though. That would hardly cover the cost of paying him, training him and all the other expenses of developing a young player over the course of six years. Not sure what the answer is, but I'd have been looking at at least £1M.
I suppose it will happen increasingly now though - we'll have signed a youngster likely to get to our level and play for the 1st. team, only to find that after six years our standard is that much higher. That can't go on for ever, though - as this season has proved, we can't finish higher every season; perhaps in three of four years some of our current U18s WILL be breaking through to the first team (when we're lower mid-table again).
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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£300m!? You’re tough to please
GT49er
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Ooops! Edited (but not quickly enough)!£300m!? You’re tough to please
The Wookiee
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Worth us taking a closer look at him and how he works with better quality players around him