The signings keep coming, a bit on the younger side this time though!

 

 

 

 

As reported by Telegraph Sport in March, Chelsea have headhunted Brown and appear poised to beat competition from Arsenal to sign the highly-rated midfielder for a nominal fee.

 

Brown only made his debut for Albion late last season and his departure will be a shattering blow to chairman Jeremy Peace, who has recently voiced his concerns over the Elite Player Performance Plan youth system.

 

Albion stand to receive only £209,000 and negotiations between the two clubs are ongoing, with Peace's claims for more money enhanced by the fact the new EPPP rules were not in place when Brown turned 16 in January.

 

Brown trained with Chelsea on Saturday and will also train on Monday and a compensation agreement is expected to be reached this month.

 

The teenager is also expected to travel with Mourinho's first-team squad in pre-season, along with Ruben Loftus-Cheek, 17, and is understood to have impressed Chelsea scouts to such an extent that he could make his senior debut in the forthcoming season.

 

Brown's exit will also come as a huge frustration for Albion head coach Steve Clarke, who gave him his debut against Wigan in May, and was keen for him to sign a professional contract at the Hawthorns next year.

 

 

Sounds like we've riled up West Brom with this move, the usual suspects in the press will no doubt be out sniping.

Edited July 10, 201313 yr by Lofty 1905

For the last two seasons, the focus is clearly on buying young talents and avoid spending big on big-name players on the wane.

Edited July 10, 201313 yr by Lord

Good luck to the lad, but the odds of a 16 year old junior at CFC getting into the first team are next to nothing.

So far not one junior has made it through as a regular starter.

We might make a profit on him of course, by loaning him out and eventually on selling.

"Albion stand to receive only £209,000"

 

£200k for a 16 year old seems a fair bit of money to not really "only" £200k in my eyes.

 

I dare say there will be a sell on % in his contract somewhere as well. This is just how the world of football works and it frustrates me that any "big" clubs who recruit youth prospects are immediately made out to be evil for doing so. 

Highly rated but has a mighty f**k-tonne of competition for that spot with Ake/Chalobah/KDB/Romeu/Loftus-Cheek all young CM's already in place.

May the best man win!

Whats the likelihood we going to end up doing a Barcelona and have a 'B' team in a lower league?

Whats the likelihood we going to end up doing a Barcelona and have a 'B' team in a lower league?

 

It's something that was discussed before but I think the FA basically rejected the idea. The closet thing you can do is have a partnership with a club and send large amounts of your youth on loan there like we have with Vitesse who essentially help us to develop our youth players.

 

The only other thing you can do is what the Pozzo's have done with Watford, they bought the club and have used it as an outlet for their Italian teams reserves/youth players to get frequent 1st team action. 

No chance of a B team. The FA wont allow it.

Already been slated in the papers for this signing and how he will follow over young careers ruined by us having been 'poached'. 

 

So we sign a young prospect, pay compensation, give him some of the best facilities in the country to use and help his development all at our expense and obviously our risk.

 

The player doesn't make it.........were evil ba$tard$ aint we.   

I feel more sorry for the youth players already here. I am just guessing but i would think if he has already played in the league he will be fast tracked above some of the youth already with us.

Highly rated but has a mighty f**k-tonne of competition for that spot with Ake/Chalobah/KDB/Romeu/Loftus-Cheek all young CM's already in place.

May the best man win!

 

From what I've heard he can play in the attacking band just as well.

Edited July 10, 201313 yr by Teritus

Already been slated in the papers for this signing and how he will follow over young careers ruined by us having been 'poached'. 

 

So we sign a young prospect, pay compensation, give him some of the best facilities in the country to use and help his development all at our expense and obviously our risk.

 

The player doesn't make it.........were evil ba$tard$ aint we.   

That tosser Durham has had a go:

 

I don’t think the kid should be blamed for making a move to better himself – he’s about to go on tour to America where Chelsea will play in a tournament including Inter Milan, AC Milan, Valencia, Real Madrid and Juventus. West Brom go to Austria to face Hannover. It’s not the deciding factor but it’s a measure of where the two clubs are at.

 

So nothing wrong there.

The issue of compensation is crucial. The Premier League need to get this right – their EPPP rules suggest a fee of £209,000 is appropriate. That doesn’t add up when clubs like West Brom spend millions on their Academies.

Izzy Brown is England’s future – the Baggies deserve reward if they’re losing a star product of their academy.

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

and Chelsea need to be accountable if the kid doesn’t become an international player at Stamford Bridge.

 

So if a 16 year doesn't become an international we should face some sort of investigation????

 

The guy is an utter tw@t. Does he have ANY idea what the odds are against any 16-year-old actually making the grade, let alone becoming an England international?

Clubs can't really complain, this signing and Daniel Crowley to Arsenal are both down to the new rules the clubs themselves signed up to with the category ratings.

 

 

"Albion stand to receive only £209,000"

 

£200k for a 16 year old seems a fair bit of money to not really "only" £200k in my eyes.

 

I dare say there will be a sell on % in his contract somewhere as well. This is just how the world of football works and it frustrates me that any "big" clubs who recruit youth prospects are immediately made out to be evil for doing so. 

 

There'll be no sell on % because West Brom have nothing to do with his transfer other than they're due compensation. Perhaps if they'd been open to negotiating a fee we might have included one but they weren't so a tribunal will decide a £ amount to paid.

 

Think it will be more than £200k though and some performance clauses like a first team appearance gets West Brom x, an international cap gets West Brom y etc

Edited July 29, 201312 yr by startedwithglenn