AZ Alkmaar ‘robbed’ of youngsters by Arsenal and Liverpool: Is it fair?
by jakepjohnson on June 27th, 2008
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AZ Alkmaar are the latest European club to be angered by English teams’ youngster-stealing antics as they lost two promising youths to Arsenal and Liverpool this week.
Liverpool swooped to sign 17-year-old striker Vincent Weijl, while Arsenal added 15-year-old midfielder Oguzhan Ozyakup to their ranks. Alkmaar will receive small compensation packages, having trained the players, but it will do little to calm AZ sports director Marcel Brands who is frustrated that clubs like his are easy-targets:
We know how the case is, we are completely powerless against it here
The two players follow the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Mathieu Flamini and Gerard Pique in being taken to the Premiership at a very young age without the clubs that trained them being able to fight for them.
Is it fair that clubs receive so little compensation for players they have trained for so many years, or are they lucky to get anything at all?
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Tagged Under: Alkmaar, AZ, Eredivisie, Marcel Brands, Oguzhan Ozyakup, Vincent Weijl
Internet Gooner - June 27th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
AZ steal their own youngsters, Southampton stole Theo Walcott…..
It happens…..
Rich - June 27th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
You’re right it does happen and as a gooner I like to see these players come through. However it does mean the big clubs will always get bigger and the smaller clubs smaller.
I live in Chesterfield, had they received compensation for selling our only good player recently (Kevin Davies), they would almost certainly now been in a brand new stadium, playing in front of 8-9000 people in League 1 instead of where they are. It makes a massive difference
Rich - June 27th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
feel sorry for thos youngsters going to arsenal coz they r all gonna be sodomised by arsene wenger
Samsagoona - June 27th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Why would u feel sorry4 them.. if u wer a footballer u wud want 2 go 2 a bigger club… look at the talent we have produced… think fabregas was only 16 wen he joined… look at him now
Mwal - June 28th, 2008 at 12:17 am
the younger players will 99% of the time want to go to larger clubs, no mmatter how unfair it might be to the smaller clubs
AussieRed - June 28th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Even if these players never make it at the club, as let’s face it, the majority won’t, they will be better for training with big players and training in the world class training set ups.
Ben - June 28th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Shouldnt really matter, dont no what they are moaabout, if he wants to come like he has then let him.
Ben - June 28th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Shouldnt really matter, dont no what they are moaabout, if he wants to come like he has then let him.
Nick - June 30th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Could these young foreign imports become future England internationals?
Check out:
http://footballssoul.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/should-the-england-team-be-limited-to-english-players-is-the-65-rule-for-international-teams-too/
YNWA - June 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am
@NICK, i think you can apply for citizenship if you’v lived in a country for 3 or more years, and therefor they could eventually play for england (granted that they havent played a competitive match for their home country at that level) i think? not too sure…..
Pedro Idiota - June 30th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Perhaps the big clubs should send the little clubs cakes and KrispyKreme doughnuts when such players make their first-team debuts as compensation