DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
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Anonymous
Dcu academy kids who are signed (go pro) are considered homegrown. Homegrown players donât count towards salary limits (I think but I may not have gotten the language right). Everyone else goes to college or tries to get signed somewhere else. I guess a concern is that DCU is not great at maximizing their homegrowns potential and appear to be ruining young players career with not the best decisions. Maybe asking for too much when the players want to go abroad? Like fletcher and akinmboni. Yet holding on to them and not doing anything to continue to develop them. |
Anonymous
All homegrowns for the other 25 academies are maximized to professional potential fullness? Are only homegrowns allowed to go pro? I'm quite sure agencies, agents and managers have negative stories about every club to go with the positive ones. |
Anonymous
Care to share some positive ones from DCU? |
Anonymous
*crickets* |
Anonymous
This is exactly the problem and spot on. Gets to what was said in a earlier post. The pro pathway at DCU is a difficult one because you're dealing with poor leadership that has a big influence on your future. The case of this recent homegrown is a classic example. They put the homegrown tag on him and signed him to the senior team when he was 15 ( that was questionable) to make some headlines and increase their homegrown numbers for the MLS. He proceeded to play practically no minutes for the first team. Now you have a prem club coming in giving the club it's asking price for a player that doesn't even play for the first team and they said no. I feel bad for the kid actually that he has to endure this mismanagement. Unfortunately, no agent can move a player under contract unless the club agrees. What will happen now is that interest will likely cool on him because he's a totally unproven asset that the club wants too much money for because they are greedy, selfish and incompetent. Could interest build because he's young? Possibly. But it's a huge gamble they are making with this kids future because whether he gets sold or not, DCU will have utility for him because they spent no real money on him. But for the player, DCU doesn't have the same amount of utility because he isn't playing. unfortunately, he's not playing enough to develop at a rate that equals Europe and he's in the MLS where the level isn't great to begin with. It's actually unbelievable. This is a perfect example of the pro pathway at DCU, even in best case scenarios, being very difficult. You can't trust DCU to make decisions in your son's best interest at any point in your dealing with them. It's a business. That is clear. What is happening is astonishing. You can't make this stuff up. |
Anonymous
This post is full of legitimate issues with DCU. Anyone posting otherwise is just flat out lying. |
Anonymous
Because that poster offers no facts of their own but demands facts, which have been given, to support every critical statement about DCU. You can clearly see who has real info about the academy and who doesn't just by the posts. |
Anonymous
Posters are making direct points about DCU's quality that are in fact valid. You're just focused on making direct points about the posters that you have no idea about. You're actually not participating in the thread, you're just a distraction. Nothing more. You should create a different thread for just yourself that's called "only positive aspects of DCU academy..." Oh wait, that thread was already created and no one has anything good to say. Including you. Want to talk about sad and pitiful...đ |
Anonymous
Useless... |
Anonymous
Price is very good (above, actually double, his market value) for a player that isn't even in the first team squad really. Why not sell him? They probably aren't going to get more for a player that rarely plays in the MLS and is largely unproven at the professional level. He's only 17. DCU likely wants to hold on to him in the hopes they can get more because he's young. The problem with that is two fold. First and foremost, they have to continue to develop him for his market value to rise, which they have proven they can't do consistently (look at his current playing time. He played in only 10 games all season and limited minutes in those games at that. This is because they want to win first and development of youth players is a total afterthought unless something is presented to them proactively and they have to mobilize, like here. Which is even more sad because DCU was horrible this season and missed the playoffs) and secondly, DCU are complete rookies in the international transfer game and are dealing with true veterans that play and know every angle. It doesn't take a genius to know they will get outplayed and outmaneuvered. All of this doesn't bode well for the player. That, above all else, is unfortunate. Where would you rather be as a 17 year old player still developing, at DCU or in Europe playing at a premier league club with many options to get high level minutes on the first, second or academy teams which are all high level. Pretty easy decision. But DCU blocked this opportunity for their own, unrealistic and selfish, interests. It is a business at the end but this offer was reasonable. Again, this is unfortunate for the player. |
Anonymous
| At a minimum loan him out... |
Anonymous
"People are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts" |
Anonymous
What does this have to do with the academy? |
Anonymous
Or the personal issues are lies |
Anonymous
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All homegrowns for the other 25 academies are maximized to professional potential fullness?
Are only homegrowns allowed to go pro? |