Everton to receive £400k compensation for Isaac Price
With Isaac Price moving from the Everton Academy to Standard Liege in Belgium this summer to get more senior playing time, Everton are set to receive £400k in compensation.
The 19-year-old Everton U21 player is out of contract but cannot move as a free agent under Bosman rules which kick in at age 23. Instead, under Uefa regulations, Everton will receive £400k as the deemed value of their 12-year investment in his development at the Academy.
This was a breakthrough season of sorts, with Price making three sub appearances off the bench for the Everton first team against Boreham Wood, Arsenal and Brighton & Hove Albion.
Those came under Frank Lampard, however, while Sean Dyche has shown very little interest in risking any young players as Everton fight for their Premier League survival.
Price becomes yet another example of a young and promising player who is not quite good enough to make the step up from Under-21s to the Premier League and feels he has no alternative but to get more first-team experience on the Continent, Everton's attempts to keep him on their books being in vain.
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2 Posted 17/05/2023 at 22:33:02
3 Posted 17/05/2023 at 22:41:56
Good luck, lad.
4 Posted 17/05/2023 at 23:19:45
I'm sure, that players from the Everton, youth development and u21, U23s system, over the next few years will follow your example.
5 Posted 17/05/2023 at 23:24:22
6 Posted 17/05/2023 at 23:46:30
I was thinking it will cover Dele's wages for the next month je inhales laughing gas (appropriately enough) and poses on Instagram.
Interesting move for Price. Liege are a big club but a fallen giant. Sound familiar? Some Chelsea youth players did well there. Didn't Frazer Hornby have a spell too? But to think the RS get 20 million for every Jordan Ibe they release ….
7 Posted 18/05/2023 at 07:04:27
8 Posted 18/05/2023 at 07:19:49
Good luck.
The experience abroad and at a renowned club like Standard Liege, will benefit his development.
Not enough English players do this to build their careers. Never have done. We are mostly home birds.
On the other hand, the English game is flooded with foreign players. Yes, the money plays a role, but foreign players have always been willing to go to other destinations in comparison to British players.
He will learn a lot and I wish him good fortune in building a career in the game, wherever that will be.
9 Posted 18/05/2023 at 07:54:15
If that was the case, then it was the typical lack of Asset Management sense of a "Head Coach" that Lampard chose to ignore (or didn't give a s*it about) Price's expiring contract and its Financial Ramifications to the club (had the contract not been renewed).
When we thought dealing with the incomptent Board has already got Thelwell's hands full, here is the mere pittance of 𧹈K as the salt thrown by a foreign club on to Thelwell's (& our) wounds.
10 Posted 18/05/2023 at 09:39:11
11 Posted 18/05/2023 at 10:28:16
12 Posted 18/05/2023 at 10:58:20
13 Posted 18/05/2023 at 14:26:46
14 Posted 18/05/2023 at 15:02:40
Which uncovers a potential route to circumvent the P&S rules. What is to prevent 777 to get Everton to overprice a player and sell such player to a ‘group' club ? Maybe Paul The Esk could provide some thoughts on this? I get it that the buying club would be saddled with a high cost asset, but a PL club has a lot more commercial value at stake if they call foul of the rules, and this could be a convenient way to temporarily get out of a sticky situation?
15 Posted 20/05/2023 at 18:24:35
How many more rats to leave the sinking ship?
16 Posted 20/05/2023 at 18:33:34
The club that keeps on giving, only to the wrong people. I bet the line of under-achievers who leave at season's end are dwarfed by the well-wishers that support this club.
17 Posted 20/05/2023 at 18:42:19
He might go on to be a world beater, but I don't think he's shown anything to think that.
How's Thierry Small these days...
18 Posted 30/05/2023 at 19:59:51
19 Posted 30/05/2023 at 20:30:10
There has been no stability at Everton for years and the constant chopping and changing of managers has obviously massively reduced the chances of a pathway into our first team for any young players coming through. This has got to be a major part of our reset, imo, because it now seems more important than ever for us to really start concentrating on producing very good young footballers again.
This will not only save us money, it should also make us money, as well as helping us to grow an identity that has got lost since we started changing managers every year.
20 Posted 07/06/2023 at 17:07:30
Paul Tait's young Blues start preparations for the 2023-24 campaign against the League Two club at their New Lawn Stadium home.
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