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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's with all the fake homegrown players wiki links?[/quote]

Doesn't take a genius to figure out that for some reason, wiki breaks the link.  You can click the "Did you mean: Homegrown Player Rule (MLS)?" with the big light bulb next to it.[/quote]
Exactly. Just click the hyperlink on the page that says did you mean... Wikipedia breaks links all the time and that is what happened here.[/quote]

Inter Miami founded their academy in 2020 (during covid so imagine how difficult that was) and between 2020 and 2024 they produced more than double the amount of homegrown players than DCU did in that same period.  DCU has been running an academy for two decades.  Inter Miami academy didn't even EXIST four years ago.  [/quote]

I'm not knowledgeable on this stuff.
What does homegrown player mean?
What happens to you if you're a homegrown player?[/quote]

It just means they came up through their teams academy development program.  [/quote]

Who designates a player as homegrown?
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If you come up through the clubs academy and sign a pro contract with them, you are a homegrown player.  There's not an "entity" per se, that designates a player as homegrown.[/quote]

I think anyone from the area can be designated homegrown even if they didn’t spend any or much time in the academy. For example, k fletcher [/quote]

The rules say as little as one year with an academy and they can call you homegrown if they so choose.
So you can spend 8 years at FC Delco, one year at Philly Union and get designated Homegrown by Philly. 
Everyone says 'a Philly developed product' [/quote]

This is what bugs me. One year at DCU and they get a say where you go next if it doesn’t work out. I mean u don’t even have to be in the academy for them to put you on their protected list. That is, they can require other academies to pay a fee to allow your player to move to an academy in a different region.

I understand the rationale for this when the club has invested in their players for years but that is not how DCU “develops” at all.
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Right, it's wild they can claim a player that's not even rostered.  Players in the academy sure, I can understand.  But putting kids on a protected list that never played for them seems wrong.[/quote]

Strange MLS allows this 
How is DCU the only club allowed to do this protected list thing?[/quote]

It’s an MLS thing, all MLS clubs can do this. And similar complaints are made abt other clubs that don’t develop well either. Like minessota.

But i believe Sporting ks (I think) blocked a move by requesting transfer fees for a player that never played for them when they tried to move to a different club. I believe the player rejected an offer from sporting. [/quote]

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