Royal Doyle Takes the quiet path

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Originally Posted by bigmac

how come? could they not have waited for his contract to run out and taken him on a free? It's usual for a player's value to dip towards the end of a contract as a club seeks to get something and not lose him for free.

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He is under 23 years old so Waterford would be entitled to compensation for "developing" him. Unfortunately the eL is probably looked at as standard of Rymans league & the fact he only at ye for 2 years would have meant small sum of money...

If these clubs are entitled to these sums of compensation for 17 y.o then surely EL clubs are being truly ripped off!!

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Originally Posted by BBC Sport

Chelsea could end up paying more than £2.5m for three teenage stars after a hearing in front of the Football League appeals committee.
The Premiership champions have been told to pay an initial £200,000 for Bristol Rovers' Scott Sinclair and £150,000 for Stockport's Harry Worley.

Gillingham's Ryan Bertrand will cost them an initial £125,000.

But the fees could rise considerably if the youngsters prove to be a success under Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge.

Stockport manager Chris Turner was satisfied with the outcome of the tribunal: "It's been a fair outcome for us. Ideally we would prefer the player to stay but I think we got fair monies up front.

"There's enormous potential, that's why we offered him a deal we had never offered a young player before, in terms of giving him a professional contract straight away at 17.

"This season he would have been progressing into our first-team squad like James Tunnicliffe is.

"It goes without saying, he's going to find a lot harder to progress to the Chelsea first team than he would have at Stockport.

"But he's got all the trappings of success around him down there and it can only give him good experience."

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If the FAI cared they would campaign to UEFA and/or FIFA.

It may be hard to argue the case on the quality of the eL but most players transferred recently would be U21 internationals which if compared with similar players in other countries would mean huge increase in compensation.

Bump .... are we getting ripped off ??