Another Palace wonder kid who ends up being ordinary or worse...in the recent history their fabled academy has produced Bostock, Routledge, Moses & the other ginger bloke at Wigan....not bad players but not quite as good as Palace shouted about (actually good marketing by Palace really).
Exactly, their talk about their academy doesn't match their product. Mcginty to Man U, Elliot to Newcastle, Shelvey to Liverpool, Jenkinson to Arsenal and Solly, well we've still got the best of the crop.
Your list is hardly the Busby Babes though Henry - I think we are sometimes equally guilty of believing our own Academy publicity a bit too much. Yes, Jonjo, Jenkinson & Solly might still get there, but the wider football world would surely be reserving judgement. Rufus & Parker represent the high water mark in my opinion, and that's a while ago.
Another way of looking at it is to count the number of England caps or Championship/CL medals won by our Academy graduates. Not too many really...
Tottenham have recalled midfielder John Bostock from his loan spell with Sheffield Wednesday.
The 20-year-old arrived on loan at the end of January in a deal until the end of the season but has been recalled early by his parent club under the terms of the agreement.
Bostock made four appearances for the Owls but has not appeared for them since the defeat at Chesterfield last month and has not featured in the squad following the arrival of new manager Dave Jones on March 2.
Found these details confirmed by the Football League:
- The PFCC decided that Tottenham Hotspur Football Club should pay Crystal Palace Football Club an initial compensation fee of £700,000. - Additionally, Tottenham are to pay Crystal Palace a further £250,000 after the player has made 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 first team appearances. i.e. a total further payment of up to £1.25m. - Tottenham Hotspur should also pay Crystal Palace a further sum of £200,000 in the event of the player making his full International debut - Crystal Palace should receive 15% of any profit made by Tottenham in selling the player to another club, at any point in the future.
"I have an academy who have produced a world-class footballer for someone else and got paid two-and-sixpence for it. We weren't unrealistic - we didn't try to be clever and put a value of £5m on the player.
Suddenly £700k plus add-ons seems very reasonable for a player that 5 years on never completely established himself out on loan in the Championship or even League 1.
"I have an academy who have produced a world-class footballer for someone else and got paid two-and-sixpence for it. We weren't unrealistic - we didn't try to be clever and put a value of £5m on the player.
Suddenly £700k plus add-ons seems very reasonable for a player that 5 years on never completely established himself out on loan in the Championship or even League 1.
If he's got any sense, he'll join a league 2 club on reduced wages before its too late and try to build back up to the champ from there. But going on what people say about his attitude, I guess he won't do that.
I think it's most likely to be that it all went to his head. He was a Premier League player (attached to a top Premier League club) for five seasons.
I would imagine it would be difficult for most 16 year olds and I doubt that the Palace academy spent much time educating these young boys to cope with money and fame etc.
I think we are going to see more and more of this over the coming years. There seems to be an increase in young players being given too much money, too much pampering and little exposure to the first team. Sooner or later these millionaire boys are going to lose interest in busting a gut on loan to a Championship, or League 1, club.
Good enough of a young player having too much too soon which explains the lack of supposed talent maybe coming through or getting chances at the top level where teams expect instant performances and results?
He is still only 21 (he's younger than Solly and Obika) and did well at Swindon and Sheffield Wednesday on loan as far as I'm aware. Just because he didn't break into the Spurs team before he turned 21 doesn't mean we should write him off.
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Another way of looking at it is to count the number of England caps or Championship/CL medals won by our Academy graduates. Not too many really...
*gets coat*
World beaters you'd think!?
Quite the opposite. Spent too much effort trying to outdo each other and prove they were the best
Tottenham have recalled midfielder John Bostock from his loan spell with Sheffield Wednesday.
The 20-year-old arrived on loan at the end of January in a deal until the end of the season but has been recalled early by his parent club under the terms of the agreement.
Bostock made four appearances for the Owls but has not appeared for them since the defeat at Chesterfield last month and has not featured in the squad following the arrival of new manager Dave Jones on March 2.
- The PFCC decided that Tottenham Hotspur Football Club should pay Crystal Palace Football Club an initial compensation fee of £700,000.
- Additionally, Tottenham are to pay Crystal Palace a further £250,000 after the player has made 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 first team appearances. i.e. a total further payment of up to £1.25m.
- Tottenham Hotspur should also pay Crystal Palace a further sum of £200,000 in the event of the player making his full International debut
- Crystal Palace should receive 15% of any profit made by Tottenham in selling the player to another club, at any point in the future.
http://www.football-league.co.uk/latestnews/20080723/league-clarifies-bostock-details_2293301_1353409
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11675_3796545,00.html
Suddenly £700k plus add-ons seems very reasonable for a player that 5 years on never completely established himself out on loan in the Championship or even League 1.
Amen.
I would imagine it would be difficult for most 16 year olds and I doubt that the Palace academy spent much time educating these young boys to cope with money and fame etc.
I think we are going to see more and more of this over the coming years. There seems to be an increase in young players being given too much money, too much pampering and little exposure to the first team. Sooner or later these millionaire boys are going to lose interest in busting a gut on loan to a Championship, or League 1, club.
I'd take him on low wages.