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Arsenal Confirm The Signing Of Charlton Youngster

by Jack Atchinson on June 8th, 2011 36 comments

Emirates club snap up teenager from the Valley.

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AZ Alkmaar ‘robbed’ of youngsters by Arsenal and Liverpool: Is it fair?

by jakepjohnson on June 27th, 2008 12 comments

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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