| The problem with our new recruitment model 10:34 - Aug 13 with 609 views | FromReuserWithLove |
Is that were simply seen as a career stepping-stone to these young talents. This is necessarily a bad thing but it will throw up scenarios like Hutchinson now and again and when you allow your other starboy to talk to suitors before the season even concluded, it kinda sets the precedent. [Post edited 13 Aug 10:35]
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| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:38 - Aug 13 with 552 views | LankHenners |
That's the case for every single club in the country outside of the elite few at the very top. The Delap scenario also happens loads, we're just not used to being in the sort of position where it happens to us. |  |
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| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:43 - Aug 13 with 499 views | ElderGrizzly |
That's always been our model. |  | | |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:43 - Aug 13 with 501 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
I think the Delap scenario was handled well, done and dusted with minimum fuss. Get the money in. |  |
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| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:46 - Aug 13 with 485 views | tcblue |
The only thing which has changed is that we have players in demand from higher profile teams for the first time in a long while.
We need to get used to this, as it is part of success |  | | |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:58 - Aug 13 with 428 views | ElderGrizzly |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:46 - Aug 13 by tcblue |
The only thing which has changed is that we have players in demand from higher profile teams for the first time in a long while.
We need to get used to this, as it is part of success |
And it's the only way we'll comply with PSR and remain competitive. Assuming we get back to the PL.
Ashton has said before, the model Brighton have is something we are trying to emulate. Buy low (or create your own from the academy), sell high and reinvest. | | | |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 13:03 - Aug 13 with 303 views | Hermann_eats_puffin |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 10:43 - Aug 13 by ElderGrizzly |
That's always been our model. |
Yes this has always been the model and it is important for our future that this continues.
In the past it was the case such as with Dozzell to Tottenham, Kiwomya to Arsenal, Dyer to Newcastle, Wright to Arsenal as well as others and we used funds from those sales to reinvest in the team and make a better squad to push on.
In the current day of PSR and mega money deals this is even more important and if we are to succeed on the pitch and financially it is actually important that as a club we are seen as a viable stepping stone.
Whilst we'd all love the best talent to come to Town and see this as their final destination & therefore stay at the club for their entire career (such as we as fans would love to do if we only had the footballing talent) this is not a realistic proposition to expect footballers to actually do.
Clubs such as Bournemouth are very good at doing this and for example they have made over £90m profit from their sales of Milos Kerkez, Dean Huijsen and Illia Zabarnyi this summer.
Zabarnyi is being sold to PSG in a deal worth 66m euros (£57m) and Zabarnyi had joined Bournemouth for a reported £24m. Dean Huijsen joined Real Madrid for £50m and Huijsen was signed from Juventus last summer for a fee of £12.6m. Liverpool signed Milos Kerkez in a deal worth £40m and Kerkez cost a reported £15.5m from AZ Alkmaar. See this article from the BBC:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1leezv2r0zo
Also see this article titled "Frankfurt are about to hit profits of €345m in six years just from selling strikers – this is how they do it" but apologies as this is behind a paywall but the gist of it is they get talented young players in on the pretext of come to us play well and we won't stand in your way when you want to move on.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6508175/2025/07/23/eintracht-frankfurt-hugo-eki
If we want to compete in the football business model as it currently is (and everyone can argue about whether they like it or not but you have to operate within the reality of what football currently is) we 100% have to get talented players in and be prepared to sell them within a season or two if they do well and reinvest that money in the next bright young talented players.
Hopefully along that journey the players deliver on the pitch to propel the team to success and when you sell them for a profit you then buy the next player on the conveyor belt. Just don't completely fall in love with the players and don't be bitter when they leave because this has to be the business model.
The problem we have at the current time is that the good players want to leave (which is what it is and you don't have to like it but if we double our money each time it's good business) but now we're a Championship club instead of a PL club it's a lot harder to attract the next player into our club to get on the production line.
It's not an issue for Bournemouth because as a PL club they just have the next player lined up on the production line and they go again.
Furthermore if we hold players to ransom and do not let them move onto the next step in their career that will simply put other players off from joining us. That's not something I like as a fan because in my ideal world I'd love to be playing hardball and retaining our best talent but that is simply not going to work in the game as it currently operates business wise. |  | | |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 13:08 - Aug 13 with 253 views | lurcher |
You could also say we are buying players, playing and improving them then selling them on for a profit. Which Ashton has always said is the model. Talented young Players are only going to stay with us when we become an established Premier league side. [Post edited 13 Aug 13:13]
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| The problem with our new recruitment model on 13:09 - Aug 13 with 236 views | CopfordBlue |
| The problem with our new recruitment model on 13:03 - Aug 13 by Hermann_eats_puffin |
Yes this has always been the model and it is important for our future that this continues.
In the past it was the case such as with Dozzell to Tottenham, Kiwomya to Arsenal, Dyer to Newcastle, Wright to Arsenal as well as others and we used funds from those sales to reinvest in the team and make a better squad to push on.
In the current day of PSR and mega money deals this is even more important and if we are to succeed on the pitch and financially it is actually important that as a club we are seen as a viable stepping stone.
Whilst we'd all love the best talent to come to Town and see this as their final destination & therefore stay at the club for their entire career (such as we as fans would love to do if we only had the footballing talent) this is not a realistic proposition to expect footballers to actually do.
Clubs such as Bournemouth are very good at doing this and for example they have made over £90m profit from their sales of Milos Kerkez, Dean Huijsen and Illia Zabarnyi this summer.
Zabarnyi is being sold to PSG in a deal worth 66m euros (£57m) and Zabarnyi had joined Bournemouth for a reported £24m. Dean Huijsen joined Real Madrid for £50m and Huijsen was signed from Juventus last summer for a fee of £12.6m. Liverpool signed Milos Kerkez in a deal worth £40m and Kerkez cost a reported £15.5m from AZ Alkmaar. See this article from the BBC:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1leezv2r0zo
Also see this article titled "Frankfurt are about to hit profits of €345m in six years just from selling strikers – this is how they do it" but apologies as this is behind a paywall but the gist of it is they get talented young players in on the pretext of come to us play well and we won't stand in your way when you want to move on.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6508175/2025/07/23/eintracht-frankfurt-hugo-eki
If we want to compete in the football business model as it currently is (and everyone can argue about whether they like it or not but you have to operate within the reality of what football currently is) we 100% have to get talented players in and be prepared to sell them within a season or two if they do well and reinvest that money in the next bright young talented players.
Hopefully along that journey the players deliver on the pitch to propel the team to success and when you sell them for a profit you then buy the next player on the conveyor belt. Just don't completely fall in love with the players and don't be bitter when they leave because this has to be the business model.
The problem we have at the current time is that the good players want to leave (which is what it is and you don't have to like it but if we double our money each time it's good business) but now we're a Championship club instead of a PL club it's a lot harder to attract the next player into our club to get on the production line.
It's not an issue for Bournemouth because as a PL club they just have the next player lined up on the production line and they go again.
Furthermore if we hold players to ransom and do not let them move onto the next step in their career that will simply put other players off from joining us. That's not something I like as a fan because in my ideal world I'd love to be playing hardball and retaining our best talent but that is simply not going to work in the game as it currently operates business wise. |
Great post. Well-written, measured and insightful. | |
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| The problem with our new recruitment model on 13:10 - Aug 13 with 214 views | Metal_Hacker |
Bournemouth have this pre-season sold there back 4/5 players for umpteen million £'s to PSG , Real Madrid,Liverpool and the likes - it happens above out station too |  |
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