A-League Record Transfer Fee?
Newspaper talk reports Bruce Djite's transfer has netted Adelaide United $850,000 plus a sell-on clause.
With the minuscule amounts received for David Carney and others, this is surely good news for Australian clubs.
While we don't want to see these guys go, when they do, it should be for a reasonable fee.
Nice to see some extra funds flowing into Australian football.
With all the doom and gloom surrounding the revenue problems with Basketball, NRL Club's and Rugby Union in the last few days good to see some good financial news for Aussie sporting teams.
Surely players like James Holland, Stuart Musialik, Nathan Burns, Nikolai Topor-Stanley will all add to club revenues if and when they head overseas in coming years.
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Adelaide seem to be doing things right at the moment. Next stage of the ACL, good money for Djite. I wonder how much Burns will go for.
Not as much I don't think..certainly not to Norway.
Wonder if he'll head to Turkey as well.
Interesting he missed the 35 player Socceroo call-up.
Thought I was the only decent player in the country to miss the call-up..and of course you Eric!!
of course, state league clubs can't take advantage of the new football boom, thanks to the brilliant $3,000 rule
not sure how you can enforce a $3,000 rule if you were to sell a player directly overseas...say $5,000 with a sell on clause
alternatively the $3,000 may lift in time, but who would you ahve charged more than $3,000 coming from the State Leagues in the last number of years
some have gone on to do okay but anyone you suggest is worth more than $3000 and how much were they worth Paul?
The directly overseas part is partly what i'm worried about Eamonn. Because of the state league to A-league rule, clubs like the Melbourne Knights are doing deals with Dinamo Zagreb, which means that our young players bypass the local scene altogether... whether they make it or not is almost irrelevant.
Of course, there is the stupidity of VPL clubs paying far too much in wages and transfers... but that's how the global football wage/trade system works. Why have these rules for state to A-League transfers but not state to state transfers? Clubs (sometimes sort of against their will) pay what they feel is a fair price to get that 'special' player.
I don't know if in recent times any player has been worth anything over $3000, but local clubs often invest so much time, effort and money into players, that to give them no room to negotiate whatsoever is quite unfair in my opinion.
for a club heading towards the finals in state league comps, they could end up without one or two or more of their players because they've been snatched by the a-league at bargain rates. now a state league club would seldom hold back a player from participating in a higher competition, but this snatch and grab approach leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.
i hope for whoever djite's previous clubs were, that they are able to get a slice of the pie. and the role of the vis/ais in stripping players from local clubs for nothing is a topic for another day :)
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