Sergi Canós [sold]

[redmike65]

Meeeja reporting a contract stand off, Canos agitating for a pay rise. Maybe he wants to force a move to Brentford! In truth I imagine he wants some sort of commitment to first team football having enjoyed that on loan.

[Muddled]

Has £10,000 a week really become the 'going rate' for an unproven youngster in the Premier League?

[Darkon]

Has £10,000 a week really become the 'going rate' for an unproven youngster in the Premier League?

When you're looking at the transfer fees being paid in the PL at the moment, many clubs are willing to risk giving a youngsters a relatively high salery rather than wait and see because it's so ridicously expensive to sign anyone. Just look at the Ings fee for a 'free' transfer within the PL. Signing a youngster on a 10k contract for 3 years is still a far cheaper investment than wating and see.

It's just the general price development coming from ridiculous money available for PL sides these days. Puts pressure all the way down the system - and impressively the English sites manages to get squads that are no better than their Spanish and German counterparts

[The_weatherman]

Has £10,000 a week really become the 'going rate' for an unproven youngster in the Premier League?

That's what the report states, how much is a starter in the Championship paid? I'd guess not much lower than 10,000

[Phoenix07]

This is in the Independent.

But Canos’ current Liverpool contract has just one year left to run and the two parties are currently some way apart on terms for a new deal. Liverpool have so far offered him a new deal on £3,000 per week, which is one third of what he could hope to command if he left. Liverpool are currently trying to keep their wage bill down for young players, an approach that cost them Jordan Rossiter, who agreed a move to Rangers last week. This new club policy could see Canos leave as well.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...-a7031946.html

[The_weatherman]

Why bother trying to get them through if we end up losing them as soon as the turn into squad players? Isn't Sinclair going as well?

[meffin]

99% of the youngsters wont make it into a regular first team player- if their wage demands are excessive, let them go. Rossiter learned the hard way- fair play to the club for not paying somebody with less than 10 minutes premier league experience £10,000 per week.

Ten grand per week

[RedReet]

If their main motivation at this stage is money, f*ck them.

[redmike65]

That's what the report states, how much is a starter in the Championship paid? I'd guess not much lower than 10,000

I remember when Robbie Keane broke through at Wolves in League Division One as it was called back then and he got 4,000 in his first contract extension, a year later he pissed off to Coventry for 10,000! I dunno why that has stuck in my mind.

[The_weatherman]

I remember when Robbie Keane broke through at Wolves in League Division One as it was called back then and he got 4,000 in his first contract extension, a year later he pissed off to Coventry for 10,000! I dunno why that has stuck in my mind.

Wow, that was some money at the time.

[baitman]

i do hope we keep this lad, saw some speculation that we might be letting him go for about 4m.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-youngster-sergi-canos-heading-11378682

[meffin]

If we do let him go, we need a buy back clause and a % of any future fee.

[The_weatherman]

He is rejecting our offer of 3000 p-week, he can apparently get triple that by going to the Championship so I'm not sure about that buy back clause.

[redmike65]

Feels like a case of the club being penny wise, pound foolish. Alli could have been a Liverpool player now but for £2m while Ibe is on 10k a week...just saying. If they want to keep the best youth prospects they need to show some willing, I bet he'd actually settle for quite a bit less.

[Muddled]

Fair play to the club for operating to a wage structure. From the snippets we hear, you can imagine his contract offer will be heavily incentivised with bonus payments which is absolutely fair - they should be earning their pay rises.