Tottenham Talk on Tuesday 13th
Tottenham Talk on Tuesday 13th
Good morning once again folks, it's Tuesday, it's 5:45, it's...anyone?
I have spoken a couple of time about the Italian model, one I feel Spurs should adapt to and take on board at Tottenham.
I am talking about the academy and the loan system.
Players develop quicker if they are loaned out to get first team football from a young age.
Both Ryan Sessegnon and Oliver Skipp are expected to figure with the first team this season after successful loan spells last season.
Abroad it is a financial necessity to bring through academy players and play them in the senior side, before selling them at a profit.
Chelsea make use of the loan system and will often have over 40 players loaned out at any one time.
In Italy, clubs develop players and loan them out as 21 and 22-year-olds.
Take these figures from 2019,things haven't changed since, Atalanta had 52 players out on loan, Genoa 33, Sampdoria 31, Torino 28, Chievo 28.
No team in France had more than 11 out on loan, same with the Bundesliga. while in Spain Alves had the most, 19, Real Madrid 17, Barcelona 15.
A decade ago 20% of players in the top 5 leagues were loan players, that figure rose to 29% in those ten years and now in these financial times, clubs are looking for even more loan deals.
In 2013 Parma had 184 players out on loan
UEFA wants to clamp down on them but will they now have to have a rethink?
Restricting first-team squad member loans yes, but academy loans to develop players?
In 2009 there were 29 loan-to-buy deals, that's deals that led to an actual purchase.
In 2019, there were over 100.
Between January 2010 and 22nd December 2017, there were 8,139 loan transactions in the top 5 leagues in Europe.
An analysis of these by Alexander John Bond, Paul Widdop & Daniel Parnell in 2020 (Topological network properties of the European football loan system, European Sport Management Quarterly) showed that the Italian Serie A led the way and showed that some elite clubs were extracting 'financial value' from the market.
Loan players skirt FFP rules, academy spending doesn't go against FFP either so it can be a useful revenue stream if combined with an academy developing professional footballers.
UEFA say when they amend the FFP rules after Covid, they will tighten them, not release them.
How did PSG get around FFP rules then, when they signed Neymar and Kylian Mbappé in the same season?
They actually bought Mbappé in on loan initially with a stipulated clause in the loan deal that said if PSG were not relegated from Ligue 1 they would be required to buy the player for €200m.
When it came to FFP, PSG argued that they hadn't bought the player that season, that he was on loan and the instalment payments were or penalty payments didn't kick in until the following season.
With loans not counting towards FFP, UEFA investigated and found PSG had legally circumvented the rules so could take no action.
FFP was changed as a result of this deal and loans with an obligation to buy now must now be seen as a permanent transfer by both clubs from the outset. They weren't before this transfer.
In 2019 Tottenham asked UEFA for clarification over loan deals, as did Liverpool because we wanted to put in a stipulation that a player must play a specified number of games.
This was aimed at us loaning out academy players.
Both ourselves and Liverpool wanted to insert financial penalty clauses if loaned academy players didn't get an agreed amount of playing time, when they were available to play and not injured.
These loan deals started to grow for all players, including senior players and it is something UEFA proposed to do something about, so again, post Covid, this may be an area they tighten up
The view is that it influences selection and that is something UEFA want totally stamping out of football.
The Premier League discussing changes to the loan system to allow more U-21 players to go out on loan.
In December, the Premier League's director of football Richard Garlick said:
"We will look to restructure the loan system to enable more young players to go out on loan, or be loaned earlier in their development."
Juventus established a system over the last 10 years of loaning out over 50 players and also bringing high profile loans in.
I'll be interested to see what model he develops at Tottenham and whether we are going to use the loan system to develop more academy players to be sold at a profit.
Money that you can pump back into the academy to not only pay for itself but make an operating profit.
Well that's your thinking for today sorted, see you next time.
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