No, the most successful clubs in weaker leagues do both. Completely trying to rely on academy talent is unrealistic and impossible. No club is churning out a class of 92 every few seasons, it isn't possible. Every club needs the right balance of academy talent along with young players bought from elsewhere.
Ajax's biggest 3 transfers ever have all happened in the last 3 years and none of them were academy players. Frenkie de Jong from Willem II. Davinson Sanchez for €5m from Atletico Nacional sold for about 10 times more. Milik from Bayer Leverkusen for €2.8m, sold for over 10 times more. PSV broke a transfer record to sign RvN at 22 and then sold him for 3 times as much. Not to mention other high transfer earners like Suarez, Zlatan, and Ronaldo. Not one of them from Ajax or PSV's academies.
Porto signed James for €5.1 and sold for 9 times as much. Bought half of Hulk for 5.5m and sold for 40m. Bought 60% of Falcao for 4m and sold for 40m. Jackson Martinez for 9m sold for 35m. Benfica rebought Ederson for €500,000 and sold for 40m. Signed Witsel for 8m and sold for 36m. Others include Lindelof, Di Maria, Danilo, and Anderson. These are the biggest transfers in Liga Nos history, not academy players.
The biggest clubs in weaker leagues make their money by buying young talents for 5-10m and selling for large profits. They have the odd academy player but the largest profits are from buying and selling. You can pick out some of the best talents in South America or elsewhere for 5-10m. You can't just magically produce €20m players on the regular out of kids from Toronto. Vancouver isn't suddenly some academy guru because of Alphonso Davies. He was one of a kind, that isn't a sustainable model because there isn't another Davies just hanging around Vancouver. Sure Porto produced Andre Silva but they don't have Andre Silva's coming out of every age group, that isn't sustainable and anyone expecting that is delusional. Hence why no succesful club operates like that. Producing Renato Sances and Guedes doesn't stop you from buying Witsel, Lindelof, Di Maria etc. and later selling for huge profits.
So yes the biggest clubs in the Netherlands and Portugal develop some players from their academy and sell to big leagues but they buy even more young players in the their early 20s who they flip for massive profits. Their real money earner.
he was under contract for 2019. he didn't need to go anywhere. he should have just played out his contract and then see what happens next. there would have been no shortage of suitors for him after this season.if
as Cathal Kelly of the globe and mail wrote Now he gets to play out whatever remains of his prime for Al-Hilal of the Saudi Pro League. This is a little like if Connor McDavid decided to play hockey in Brazil.
his soccer life is over. if I was him I would feel like I have just died. I was the star of TFC, the competition was fierce in the league and I was the best. Now I am going to play soccer if Saudi Arabia
hes going to be really rich but he was going to be really rich anyways.
he was under contract for 2019. he didn't need to go anywhere. he should have just played out his contract and then see what happens next. there would have been no shortage of suitors for him after this season.if
as Cathal Kelly of the globe and mail wrote Now he gets to play out whatever remains of his prime for Al-Hilal of the Saudi Pro League. This is a little like if Connor McDavid decided to play hockey in Brazil.
his soccer life is over. if I was him I would feel like I have just died. I was the star of TFC, the competition was fierce in the league and I was the best. Now I am going to play soccer if Saudi Arabia
hes going to be really rich but he was going to be really rich anyways.
I understood that he and MLSE began renegotiating last season, so you are partly correct. None of us know precisely what happened in the interim, except that he was being offered much less than his current salary. His agent may have been influenced by the handling of Nylander, and how MLSE capitulated.
Jonathan Menendez linked with TFC again. Loan deal.
http://www.delacunaalinfierno.com.ar...ronto-por.html
What appears to be a reputable Argie source is linking TFC with a 6 month loan with an option to buy for 24yr old winger Jonathan Menendez. Some of you may remember that there was a link with him last off season before Independiente loaned him to a team in Qatar. I'm gonna wager this is one of the potential TAM signings.
Source https://twitter.com/Mati_Martinez/status/1091500970545172480
If you check his instagram page there are pics of him in Raptors gear too which is an awful coincidence
Matias Martinez:
Se reflotó la posibilidad de que Jonathan Menendez pase 6 meses a préstamo al #Toronto . Con cargo y con opción. #Independiente
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft
The possibility of Jonathan Menendez spending six months on loan to the #Toronto. With charge and option. #Independiente
Did you forget that he only came here to become the highest paid player in the league?
He left his heart on the pitch, but at the end of the day he brought glory and trophies to Toronto, made all the highlight reels, made people focus attention on the team and the league (even abroad), and raised the profile of both TFC and the league.
Pirlo retired after being pretty poor at NYCFC and Gigi is at PSG (to name some of his ex-teammates who were actually starters). Benatia is off to the Middle East, Bonucci went to Milan and back, etc.
Neymar and Mbappé didn’t join PSG because the reporters in Paris are any nicer than those in Barcelona and Monaco. They went because a country with a terrible human rights record paid them boatload of cash. Does that mean they’re jerks for leaving Barca and Monaco? No, they’re professional footballers.
MLSE isn’t alone in picking up a bench player and trusting they can change. Atlanta did the same with Martinez, who was shit at Torino.
The McDavid reference is idiotic. He’s a young top prospect on a bad team who basically any other team in the league would love to have and pay big bucks for. Giovinco is rapidly aging, not a player who benefits from the Buffon longevity, and has gone to a league that pays him boatloads of cash so he can retire and live out the rest of his life nicely. McDavid is 22 and hockey players last longer than footballers. Whoever wrote that article should be ashamed of themselves and quit writing garbage op/ed nonsense about subjects they clearly don’t understand.
DP striker possibly not at Giovinco level. Hanni if happens is at least equal to Vasquez but no history of injuries and younger. The potential other TAM replaces VDW who's defining moments were sitting on his ass for a goal or getting caught out on another. Also last year we had our worst defensive season ever. Worse than Mo, Mariner, or Winter. Less points than 2009. So if to you that's good then congratulations on enjoying low standards.
The Paul Mariner scouting report*. For those so inclined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K7poAjTfY4
*Copyright OG
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I’ll take a wait and see approach. It depends on who we get, how they integrate, adapt to the MLS game, etc. On paper I would probably take a team with VV and Giovinco plus health over whoever they get to fill those spots. That was the team that was a shootout away from winning the Champions League after all. But, again, we’ll see who they get.
Sure, but VV was perpetually injured, and also wanted a final payday. Where did he move? Saudi League. He was a DP on a TAM budget, like how Montreal fudged Piatti’s figures. He also wanted more money and TFC didn’t want to pay him.
You expect them to bring back the people who were on low salaries, injured much of the season, and even give them a raise to keep them from financial security for their family?
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Watched a lot of highlights of this Sofiane Hanni guy and I'm impressed. Has height, has nice passing and dribling abilities and can shoot with both feet. He would definitely help us as a TAM player. 2016 Belgian player of the year and currently 28 yrs old. Vazquez was 2015. Ivan Perisic was 2011.
Look, I’m just saying the team we had with VV and Giovinco and everyone healthy (the majority of players played on a stretcher last year) is likely a better team than what we’ll have without them. But we’ll see once/if they bring in the replacements. It’s simple. Why they left is irrelevant to the discussion.
Menendez eh. Wonder who else is coming.
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Still need five more guys to form starting line up for the US national team and they can play for TFC between US games.
They all count as domestics so why not?