I haven't read the EPPP rules or guidelines but from what I gather these seem to be set in stone on schooboy transfers and negotiations aren't an option. We are obviously are negotiating with Chelsea which suggests there might have been a couple of loopholes there to exploit. Firstly, Amps isn't your average schoolboy player. How many kids have made double figures in fist team appearances before they've finished school? Very, very, very few I would suggest. Maybe, and I'm only spit balling here, there is a loophole which says that if a player has already achieved double figures in first team appearances the parent club has theright to negotiate before being sent down the EPPP road. Secondly, maybe the lad (and his family) have insisted that City are looked after finanacially. Unlikely?? Maybe but we've obviously got some reason and allowance to to negotiate with Chelsea.
This was being discussed more than ten years ago; what odds on it still being debated in twenty?
Yes let's accept that we're always going to be shafted by the premiership and their shed loads of available cash gleaned from the dubious morals of tv money, let's face it, we and all the other little teams are not really worthy to exist and should pray to the blessed Rupert Murdock every day to throw us a few crumbs.
