BigAl76
Well-known member
I would imagine that one of MC's MAIN briefs when joining the club was to develop young players to the point of selling them on for profit.
If Rogers leaves us this window (unlikely I think actually), and we make a few million profit then everyone has done their job. Kieran Scott, Carrick, Danks et al......Result.
The golden ratio is when you get optimal fee for a young and developing player - that must be very difficult to guage but I have confidence that the people at the club will get it right. We have sold Tav and Spence at exactly the right time recently.
I'm more interested to see how things pan out with RVDB. We have an absolute gem there. A player that will potentially command a £50M transfer at some point in his career. It's unlikely that he will achieve that sale point with us considering his young age and inexperience, but if we can get say £10M for him in the next 18 months with a considerable sell on clause (sell on clauses are CRITICAL for our model), that is the way to do it.
We then invest that money on a slightly better quality of young, unproven player and the team repeat the process. All the while slowly improving the overall quality of the squad and competing at higher levels whilst remaining within the FFP rules.
This is not a revelatory insight. It's well know that this is now the way we operate as a club. (although some people still dont seem to grasp the concept)
Carrick is key in this set up. (finally getting round to replying to OP's post!) If he develops young players and we sell them for any kind of profit - he's filled his remit. But in a perfect world I have no doubts that he would want 2 or 3 seasons with them to get the absolute best out of them and THEN we can sell when they outgrow the team. Like Tav.
If Rogers leaves us this window (unlikely I think actually), and we make a few million profit then everyone has done their job. Kieran Scott, Carrick, Danks et al......Result.
The golden ratio is when you get optimal fee for a young and developing player - that must be very difficult to guage but I have confidence that the people at the club will get it right. We have sold Tav and Spence at exactly the right time recently.
I'm more interested to see how things pan out with RVDB. We have an absolute gem there. A player that will potentially command a £50M transfer at some point in his career. It's unlikely that he will achieve that sale point with us considering his young age and inexperience, but if we can get say £10M for him in the next 18 months with a considerable sell on clause (sell on clauses are CRITICAL for our model), that is the way to do it.
We then invest that money on a slightly better quality of young, unproven player and the team repeat the process. All the while slowly improving the overall quality of the squad and competing at higher levels whilst remaining within the FFP rules.
This is not a revelatory insight. It's well know that this is now the way we operate as a club. (although some people still dont seem to grasp the concept)
Carrick is key in this set up. (finally getting round to replying to OP's post!) If he develops young players and we sell them for any kind of profit - he's filled his remit. But in a perfect world I have no doubts that he would want 2 or 3 seasons with them to get the absolute best out of them and THEN we can sell when they outgrow the team. Like Tav.
