TFC 2021-2022 player/coach/GM off-season roster discussion

[jloome]

Not sure if you're getting at what we should be able to do or are legally able to. TFC can legally sign him - TFC did it and have done similar things before. I agree there's questionable morality in signing a young player (particularly to a very long term contract) and also selling/profiting off of that player when we likely weren't compensating them for the value they brought to the team.

He's on a six year deal with us (confirmed by Josh Kloke of the Athletic link below). He's completed 2 of those years, so we don't need to re-sign him, he's already signed. He was signed at age 15 with the intention of selling him at 18 or 19.
https://theathletic.com/2530082/2021...ty-toronto-fc/

Players signed before age 18 are signed to youth contracts which are not valid for more than three years, according to FIFA regulations. So we can't have signed him to a six year deal, unless he has options after year three making it non-binding. (regulation 18.2)

Even if he were of age, the maximum binding length of a FIFA-sanctioned deal is five years.... so we can't have signed him to six.

International Transfers are only permitted over age 18, except where parents are accompanying the teen to live and an exception has been granted by FIFA.

https://www.icsspe.org/system/files/...%20Players.pdf