Jake Evans

[JimJams]

Evans is 17 in June, so presumably we've already sorted out the contract and it's all just a matter of locking him up in a cupboard until he can sign it?

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, K789 said:

12 mill would be good business 

That's exactly why its bollocks. There is no way United offer that - they'd sign him and risk a tribunal. 

[JimmyC74]

7 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Evans is 17 in June, so presumably we've already sorted out the contract and it's all just a matter of locking him up in a cupboard until he can sign it?

The Soyuncu cupboard.

[les-tah]

About to hit 17… stinks of an agent getting the best deal.. just like Hamza was on Barcelona’s radar about the same time signing a pro contract.

[Grebfromgrebland]

We have to try and make us an attractive place to be a younger up and coming player

[Dahnsouff]

23 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

We have to try and make us an attractive place to be a younger up and coming player

Thought that was why we built Seagrave Teletubbies adventure land in the first place?

[OntarioFox]

This shouldn't even be on the cards after offloading Cannon. Any club with a brain would have Evans' pro contract on the table and ready to go yesterday, but you just know we've probably not even bothered while we sat on our hands waiting for Vardy to make his mind up.

 

We're going to go into next season with Daka and Ayew as our striking options, aren't we? Our club is run by absolute morons.

Edited 5 May 2025 by OntarioFox

[JimJams]

24 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

This shouldn't even be on the cards after offloading Cannon. Any club with a brain would have Evans' pro contract on the table and ready to go yesterday, but you just know we've probably not even bothered while we sat on our hands waiting for Vardy to make his mind up.

He can't sign that contract til June though, so you could have had it ready yesterday, last week, 3 months ago, we can't tie him down until he's hit 17.  It probably is ready, who knows?

[Lesta2014]

Surprised it took this long for him to be linked away. Hope he stays and is with first team for pre season. 
 

I do worry we will lose Evans and monga, and cash in on Nelson for pure profit and be left with coady Reid and Ayew starting next season when should be other way round! 

Edited 5 May 2025 by Lesta2014

[Richard]

41 minutes ago, Lesta2014 said:

Surprised it took this long for him to be linked away. Hope he stays and is with first team for pre season. 
 

I do worry we will lose Evans and monga, and cash in on Nelson for pure profit and be left with coady Reid and Ayew starting next season when should be other way round! 

That's the stupidity of PSR

[st albans fox]

8 hours ago, filbertway said:

I am starting to see why  Brentford sacked off their academy and opted for a B team comprised of 18-20 year olds.

But they’ve had to re introduce an academy as per PL rules 

[Simonb]

Could be genuine.. I mean young lad with bags of potential and they'd know 15m of profit in the psr will be very hard to decline with our limited assets. Hope he stays and plays though

[ALC Fox]

The amount of guff we sign for fees higher than that, this would really hurt.

 

It's true that we don't know how he's going to turn out. But we've been pinning our hopes on Braybrooke and Alves for a few seasons now but lads like Monga and Evans have stormed onto the scene in the last year or so and have quite possibly overtaken them already.

 

We do need to sort our finances out. But these lads could become worth multiple times that amount in a few seasons. They could become part of our next cycle of success or they could help to really fund it properly.

 

Selling them to balance the books after blowing more in each deal on Souttar, Faes, Kristiansen, Ward, Okoli, Soumare and Skipp would really stick in the craw.

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

But they’ve had to re introduce an academy as per PL rules 

Yeah as far as I can tell, they do it because they have to and use it as an opportunity to develop local youngsters and provide them good education and life skills.

 

I believe the connection to the first team is still very much through the B team where they can sign youngsters on pro deals without the big clubs just being able to take their pick for a nominal fee.

[st albans fox]

10 hours ago, filbertway said:

Yeah as far as I can tell, they do it because they have to and use it as an opportunity to develop local youngsters and provide them good education and life skills.

 

I believe the connection to the first team is still very much through the B team where they can sign youngsters on pro deals without the big clubs just being able to take their pick for a nominal fee.

And presumably they scour academies for 17 y o that they can offer a pro deal to (but they’ve do have to pay some comp for them unless they’ve been released as opposed to running their existing contract down) 

[Foxin_Mad]

The academy rules need changing, every single structure benefits the greedy six. Of course as a young lad you will go to a big club, you will of course be unlikely to get in the squad ever. 
 

We need to be offering a root to the first team.

Edited 6 May 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[davieG]

https://www.spurs-web.com/spurs-news/tottenham-make-13m-bid-to-sign-leicester-city-wonderkid/

 

Tottenham have set their sights on yet another teenage prospect, with a bold £13m bid already lodged as they look to raid Leicester City for one of their most exciting young talents.

Tottenham Hotspur are no strangers when it comes to signing youngsters, with the Lilywhites bringing in a few ahead of this season.

We saw Spurs splash £40m on Archie Gray, after the midfielder impressed at Leeds United in the Championship last season.

It looks like money well spent, as Gray picked up the Young Player of the Year award at the London Awards in only his first season in north London.

[Focks]

Why weren't we doing this to clubs when we were top 6?

[K789]

So if evans 13 mill bid has any modicum of truth what is monga worth?

[Ric Flair]

23 minutes ago, K789 said:

So if evans 13 mill bid has any modicum of truth what is monga worth?

I'm not completely sold that Monga is better than Evans. Both are ridiculously talented. 

[Stadt]

United are in a crap PSR position, they're not spending fair chunk on a lad Evans age. Seems to be his agent is maybe forcing Leicester's hand or tipping off other clubs about him moving.

 

Even if it's true, it'd be silly to sell. Our senior striking option going into next season is Daka (deal expires 2026), that's it. If he even scores 7 or 8 goals as a 17 year old he's worth twice the reported fee anyway.

[Clever Fox]

On 05/05/2025 at 13:53, K789 said:

12 mill would be insane business for a club like ours. Potential yes but we need hard reddies

No we don't need the money. Our problem is not money. It's the stupid rules around psr.

It's ridiculous when nearly every club is owned by Billionaires.

Given that he can play all across the front and midfield, His upside is worth way more than 12 Million .

Edited 7 May 2025 by Clever Fox

[CosbehFox]

1 minute ago, Clever Fox said:

No we don't need the money. Our problem is not money. It's the stupid rules around psr.

It's ridiculous when nearly every club is owned by Billionaires.

You’d be right if King Power weren’t needing a loan every year to assist with cash flow 

[st albans fox]

9 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

You’d be right if King Power weren’t needing a loan every year to assist with cash flow 

Lots of clubs are in that position - many good businesses need cash flow 

 

issue now is that higher interest rates mean that these cash flow loans aren’t cheap anymore and the amended rules mean that owners can no longer lend money to clubs at more attractive rates than the market offers.
 

so any interest payments are a notable drain on our psr position whereas a few years ago they weren’t 

 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Lots of clubs are in that position - many good businesses need cash flow 

 

issue now is that higher interest rates mean that these cash flow loans aren’t cheap anymore and the amended rules mean that owners can no longer lend money to clubs at more attractive rates than the market offers.
 

so any interest payments are a notable drain on our psr position whereas a few years ago they weren’t 

 

Which in essence is a good rule because it was leading to scenarios such as the Glazers on Manchester United. 
 

there’s a lot of fault with PSR but this area isn’t bad. In fact the scenario woukd be worse because it would be a huge arms race where the state owned clubs would succeed