08 Apr 2017 12:59:33
Just read a report that this teenager at centre of Liverpool's tapping up scandal looks to be on his way to our academy. So they get a fine a ban and we get the youngster! 😂😂😂.


1.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 13:08:35
Carlsberg done transfers Southern Toffee that would be it :-)


2.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 13:17:44
Fines are a waste of time in football unless it was several million . Even then it like a hundred pound to us maybe.


3.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 13:32:34
Transfer ban is the way forward, if a club taps a player up they can face a ban, yet if it's an academy player it's a fine and a ban on academy recruitments, which doesn't really hurt the club. We were guilty of this same thing when Moyes was in charge so I'm not saying it just because its them, I am saying it because it can have bigger repercussions financially on a club if they are unable to improve their first team by way of them finishing further down the table maybe.
The punishments need adjusting to fit in line with the amounts clubs are bringing in and transfer bans from academy to first team maybe the way forward regardless of what level the tapping up occurred.


4.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 13:49:03
Well according to what I read they do also have a 2 year ban from recruiting academy players from other clubs.
And yes NBTB definitely a Carlsberg transfer moment 😋.


5.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 13:52:13
100% Blue Gray.
Like players being fined £20,000 like you or getting fined a quid we would laugh it off.


6.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 14:22:25
The ban they have been handed will have some affect as, like most teams, they do buy youth players from other teams. Sterling and Ibe were both purchased by LFC for relative peanuts then sold on for a combined fee of over 60m. Whether the punishment fits the crime is another thing but, for a year at least, there will be repercussions for our neighbours.


7.) 08 Apr 2017
08 Apr 2017 22:03:52
It would be quite funny if we sign him, be even funnier if he turned out to be a world class centre back in 10 years time.


8.) 09 Apr 2017
09 Apr 2017 15:53:52
I was thinking similar, I didn't see any name in the report but would be good to find out if he does sign. Be a commentators dream at Derby matches if he does reach the levels expected of him mentioning how he could've been a red 😳.