Imagine for a moment that instead of turning out for Celtic’s under-20s at Cappielow last night, the same 13-year-old Messi-anic talent, Karamoko Dembele, made his debut for Morton’s under-20 side. With all the scouts in Scotland and beyond watching his ever move, what chance Morton fans would be in a position to watch the lad grace their first team for anything more than a fleeting moment?
Celtic, among many others, would be all over the situation. His advisers would ensure that when he approaches his 16th birthday his career options were as open as possible – that’s if he’s still part of Morton’s development setup by that stage.
It’s easy to see Morton’s place in the food-chain. They would be totally incapable of offering a young player anything remotely like the compensation the likes of Celtic would. Self-awareness regarding the food-chain position is less common.
A few years back I watched a preseason game at a lower league club with a scout who worked for Manchester City, as well as a few lesser lights. When the subject got around to Celtic’s then equally Messi-anic prodigy, Islam Feruz, there was little the scout didn’t know about the player.
He could quote every stat and report ever written on Islam, but he didn’t make comfortable listening. “The boy will never play for Celtic”, was his verdict. “All the big English clubs want him and one of them will offer so much money, he’ll not refuse. Celtic can’t come close to offering the same.” I had plenty of hope that he would be wrong but as Islam’s 16th birthday approached, Chelsea outbid all others to transform his bank balance beyond all recognition. His subsequent demise is a footnote in the tale of player development.
Clubs cannot offer a professional contract until a young player turns 16. It does the developing club no good whatsoever to have a prodigy, evident to the world, before this age. Once he’s 16, he can be offered a professional contract, and the club can secure a subsequent transfer fee. If he leaves before this, the most the club will earn is a modest training compensation fee. Even if the parent club manages to secure the player on a contract, it’s likely to be something like Martin Odegaard’s at Strømsgodset – due to expire while the boy is still a boy, limiting game time and transfer fees accordingly.
Will Karamoko Dembele make it? If he does, will he be the exception to the rule that takes Teenage Kickers into the financial stratosphere before they are ready? Let’s hope it’s yes on both counts, but consider me skeptical for the next three years until we find out. On both counts. Until then we we can enjoy watching a great talent come through the ranks, but nothing more significant.
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Techy help required-Windows update on laptop will only go to 35%,and can’t get laptop on, any way of by-passing the update to let me get on? Thanks in advance
Borussia will take so much heat off the Hun.
I’ll take a single goal victory.
BADA BING, the best solution is <a href="https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-pro/"<here.
FAC the Act
KTF
CATHEDRAL VIEW on 5TH OCTOBER 2016 8:49 AM
I could someone post the email address for lms8 please.
cv
cqnpredictor@gmail.com
Damn! here.
The game @ Mordor.
Sit.
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ALMORE
Just to add my well done to Marc on working his socks off to become a doctor of economics also a very well done to Mr & Mrs Almore on helping him achieve his results. Can’t have been easy to be so far from home and living the student life in OZ.
In 1988 6 of us left Nas Na ri to go to Sydney on working visas, we saved every penny we could and with help from parents etc we arrived full of fun and deviliment as we were going to on the ran for 12 and see the world. Even back then property was expensive by comparison and so too was the cost of living. We spent the first week drinking and partying as you do. But with funds taking a hammering from rent deposits etc etc. So we decided to look for work thinking it would take a couple of weeks to get sorted, we couldn’t have been more wrong. We left the house at about 9am headed out looking for the big developmentss that were littered about the place. The first site had a horrible mutant of a foreman who told us he would pay us half the going rate until we proved we could work, so we jogged on by and at the very next site we could hear the foreman before we saw him a big geordie bloke called Barry Evans. Turns out he was struggling for labourers as there was a general shortage in the construction industry at the time. Anyway he offered us great money said the work was hard and got bloody hot so don’t come in hungover and get some sun cream and bring a big lunch.. we never looked back and had a fantastic time out there, only drawback was we were in a place called crows nest and had to cross the water by river taxi every day to work not a good idea with a sore head.
After the 12 months were up 4 of us came home and two stayed on illegally ( I didn’t want to take the gamble) the two are now Ozzie nationals settled with their own families and doing very well for themselves, one of my biggest regrets is not staying illegally then moving offshore to reapply as David and Padraig did.
Ps I hear Mayo ran yours close on sat in what was a robust game as we used to call them.
Anybody have issues getting tkts on line yesterday for Cup Semi ?
Our group all in Home ticket scheme.
WE have Adults, U16 and 17 year olds(considered kids at Celtic park not HampdumP)
When purchasing yesterday adults and U16 no issues but one’s in between
we couldn’t get
We Knew we had to buy adults and tried to.
Sorted tkts this morning but ticketmaster didn’t know why we couldn’t get
yesterday on line.
PS means we have x2 £7 special delivery charges
Jesus/Yeshuah.
Thanks.
My Mum always sung this song when I was young.
I’m guessing it is This
Morning Bhoys from a dry but grey Central Scotland. H.H.
Albert Pike – a stupid boy.
Although he was fond of his Uncle Arthur.
Be careful……
The Morals and the DOGMA are @ Stake.
To be googled?
ALMORE
Lovely!
Best wishes to all concerned!
The New Age Religion is WELL underway.
Thanks BOGNORBHOY
Now for a horrible glimpse of the Future.
The Cross crumbling @ the end is pivotal – that is the AntiChrist.
I’d have Trump BIG TIME before Clinton and the Abortion Leader.
Apologies Kaine is not Hillary, he is a Catholic, Jesuit Trained.
WTF is going on.
The Trump sidekick is a lot more CATHOLIC than Kaine.
4 non Blondes. No youtube.
Life is SPECIAL.
Quick check. Was it here or somehere else that used to have a running joke about ‘evil webmaster Lenny Murdoch’? It popped into my head this morning and made me chuckle.
Today, the Universe is 13.8 billion years old.
Happy Birthday Universe.
Oh God……….
bankiebhoy1 on 5th October 2016 10:17 am
Oh God……….
…………………………………………..
He is weeping…….
We are all made of stars
-Moby
AULDTAM
Are there enough candles in the universe for that cake?
Morning Celts
Almore…Congrats to your bhoy:)
HH
Easy repost and get a big beam of light on this character.
MOONBEAMSWD ‘STAND UP ON 15 FOR THE GB’
on 5TH OCTOBER 2016
8:09 AM Scotzine going after the Vanguard Beard http://www.scotzine.com/2016/10/suspect-number-76-gary-lenaghan/
MWD
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BMCUW –
We could crowd-fund it?
Petec
You got it in one…..they forgot to mention Albert Pike.
I wonder why eh.
HH
BMCUW –
How did the Hootenany go? Didn’t manage to get online Saturday so haven’t read anything. Great success I hope.
Ok – GO
Christ is the King of KINGS.
Well done Almore and family on your lad marcs success
HH ;-)
bankiebhoy1,
And be in Little doubt that the 2nd Coming is not far away.
No-one knows the dates, the mystics try to engineer the dates.
I’m so hoping to see 2 Dembeles play in a European Final @ the same Time for Celtic.
Arrghhhh,
The big mad BP ultimate ad has just eaten my screen. ( Android phone)
No probs zapping it though.
HH.
PS : It’s actually quite good how it starts off tiny then eats the whole screen.
Well?
They didnae use the Doorus De Vries