https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/...rapids-frigid-conditions/?clearUserState=true Toronto start off CCL with away win. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018...ke-04-sign-atlanta-academy-product-zyen-jones MLS is starting to have a huge impact for Schalke 04. https://www.brotherlygame.com/2018/...iladelphia-union-sparta-prague-czech-republic Union might have found their number ten. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018...efender-lamine-sane-bundesligas-werder-bremen Orlando City continue their off-season remake of roster. https://www.postandcourier.com/spor...cle_c568b3fc-1667-11e8-a316-6b3bf7a1a5a4.html Trying to make the jump from USL to Atlanta United. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/21/columbus-crew-move-austin-texas-mls The Crew not finding moving to Austin that easy. http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-galaxy-alessandrini-20180221-story.html Alessandrini wants to win something with the Galaxy.
So atlanta spends the time and money to develop the player but schalke is the one that gets to sign him coming out of the academy? What am I missing here? Unless of course atlanta didn't want him which would be a different thing altogether...
I hope Philly gets their man. It is always nice to see quality players in the league, even if they aren't big stars.
Your high school didn't get to pick your first job and salary. He is a kid, free to do as he pleases at 18
Would Atlanta, or his original youth club? Seeing as Atl Utd has only been around 2 years.....confident another Atl area youth club had a bigger hand in his development.
Regarding solidarity payments i think they are a good idea but only for the first pro contract signed by the player the academy team developed. Some of these academy teams want to get paid every time a player they developed signs a contract in their pro career and i dont think that's right. If i played for Real Madrid early in my career should they get a fee later in my career when i am playing for my 4th or 5th club? Same logic should apply. Youth development teams in the USA for the most part have parents or family pay yearly fees for the kid being in their system--so it's not as if these teams can cry poverty.
I'd be fairly supportive of the idea if it were limited to "scholarship" players. An academy can decide if they want to be paid now or later.