Clubs now have to apply for a Governing Body Endorsement (gbe). Basically the fa has given the different leagues around the world a "standing". The higher the standing, the higher the points. Fair enough, a player would get more points for playing in the Bundersliga than playing in the Sudetenland Sunday League division 5. As an aside, they have to be playing not just in the squad.
International appearances also counts towards the points. Again a tiered system. A player will earn more points playing for Spain than they would for Samoa.
Some interesting players would not have made the gbe points total when they transferred to the UK including Riyad Marhez.
Top international stars will have no problems signing for UK clubs. In fact we may see more Brazilians as it will be easier to sign them. The place it will affect the most is the academies and the championship.
Watch for angry managers complaining they can't sign the next greatest thing from some far forsaken land because he doesn't have enough gbe points.
Interesting link but most of the details you will have to pay for.
Clubs now have to apply for a Governing Body Endorsement (gbe). Basically the fa has given the different leagues around the world a "standing". The higher the standing, the higher the points. Fair enough, a player would get more points for playing in the Bundersliga than playing in the Sudetenland Sunday League division 5. As an aside, they have to be playing not just in the squad.
International appearances also counts towards the points. Again a tiered system. A player will earn more points playing for Spain than they would for Samoa.
Some interesting players would not have made the gbe points total when they transferred to the UK including Riyad Marhez.
Top international stars will have no problems signing for UK clubs. In fact we may see more Brazilians as it will be easier to sign them. The place it will affect the most is the academies and the championship.
Watch for angry managers complaining they can't sign the next greatest thing from some far forsaken land because he doesn't have enough gbe points.
Interesting link but most of the details you will have to pay for.
According to the Swansea City forum they are in battle with Cardiff to sign Max Watters - and they say Cardiff have offered £2m for him and he is having a medical tomorrow - having looked on the Cardiff forum - nothing is mentioned about it - so its probably another red herring.
According to the Swansea City forum they are in battle with Cardiff to sign Max Watters - and they say Cardiff have offered £2m for him and he is having a medical tomorrow - having looked on the Cardiff forum - nothing is mentioned about it - so its probably another red herring.
Hopefuly a red herring. In current climate I cant see our club turning 2m down. We have such low crowds (when allowed in) club survival has always been reliant on selling. Just imagine if we held onto all these players we would be PL by now, Championship at least.
Shame if he goes I shave seen so little of him live (ifollow doesnt count)
Agreed - feels a bit cruel on us fans, but guess we all knew it was on the cards. Given his overall record, be very interesting to see if he cuts it at Championship level (if indeed that ends up being confirmed)
Shame if he goes I shave seen so little of him live (ifollow doesnt count)
Agreed - feels a bit cruel on us fans, but guess we all knew it was on the cards. Given his overall record, be very interesting to see if he cuts it at Championship level (if indeed that ends up being confirmed)
It was unfortunately inevitable, however I do worry what it does for the morale of the squad
Agreed - feels a bit cruel on us fans, but guess we all knew it was on the cards. Given his overall record, be very interesting to see if he cuts it at Championship level (if indeed that ends up being confirmed)
It was unfortunately inevitable, however I do worry what it does for the morale of the squad
shouldn't do much they’ve proven they can win together as a unit without him. Erdem can always use some of the money to get another Striker in
So far the club have not said anything about this - at the moment its all speculation and rumour by so called agents/rumour mongers - hopefully he is on the coach to Bradford for the game tomorrow - Erdem is probably laughing at all this going on - why take any offer yet - still two weeks to go and anything could happen in terms of clubs and fee etc - they have to agree the terms of the transfer with Crawley and all the add on's in the future - hopefully Erdem will have put all these in any possible deal already.