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"Furthermore, his sale would be recorded as pure profit in financial calculations, as academy players have a book value of zero" may well be the single most depressing sentence in football.

18/8/26, 9:50 am2 reposts21 likes

Harry T

@oimhaz.bsky.social

18 Aug

A get out of jail free card for the clubs that don't deserve it. Especially my own

Quinn Grover

@inthebackeddy.bsky.social

18 Aug

Agreed. This is the sign of a system with perverse values.

p00ps

@p00ps.bsky.social

18 Aug

a boring financial term - the cost of bringing something onto your books. not a valuation of any kind.

SCOUTED

@scoutedftbl.com

18 Aug

It’s the principle we’re on about. Academy players, those from your own community that have been at your club for years, shouldn’t be flogged off because it makes more financial sense. A system that incentivises that is wrong.

p00ps

@p00ps.bsky.social

18 Aug

ah. got it. plz ignore my nerdery.