Julian Tagg on EFL Board of Directors

[bimmerman]

How is this relevant to DCFC?

Well,his big thing is fair compensation for lower league teams for youth players being picked off by Premier League teams

Potentially a really positive, pragmatic appointment 

[Day]

The Premier League has too much power to see the rules change.

What we need is a change of mindset in younger players, but how many of us at the age of 17/18 would turn down 15k+ a week to sign for say Chelsea?

These kids can sit it out on their Chelsea wages, be sent to play a few games in Holland and Belgium, join a Championship club at 26 off the back of being raised at the Chelsea academy and play regular football for 5 years, retire and never have to work again. 

Ebiowei for example would have played every game for us this season when fit and available, now he’ll be watching Soccer Saturday in his London penthouse wearing his Gucci fluffy slippers earning more than double he would have to get smashed about away at Morecambe.

How could you possibly knock that?

Gone are the days where these younger players are cleaning first team boots, hoping for their Christmas bonus to help buy their first car, a used Vauxhall Corsa.

So yeah, I can’t see much changing.

[ilkleyram]

1 hour ago, David said:

The Premier League has too much power to see the rules change.

What we need is a change of mindset in younger players, but how many of us at the age of 17/18 would turn down 15k+ a week to sign for say Chelsea?

These kids can sit it out on their Chelsea wages, be sent to play a few games in Holland and Belgium, join a Championship club at 26 off the back of being raised at the Chelsea academy and play regular football for 5 years, retire and never have to work again. 

Ebiowei for example would have played every game for us this season when fit and available, now he’ll be watching Soccer Saturday in his London penthouse wearing his Gucci fluffy slippers earning more than double he would have to get smashed about away at Morecambe.

How could you possibly knock that?

Gone are the days where these younger players are cleaning first team boots, hoping for their Christmas bonus to help buy their first car, a used Vauxhall Corsa.

So yeah, I can’t see much changing.

I think that you're probably correct that not much will change @David - mainly due to the incompetence and impotence of the EFL - but some younger players (Mason Mount for example) do work hard at developing their career even while being on big wages.  Harry Wilson and Tomori might be other examples and who knows, Ebiowei may yet do the same, with us or someone else. Ditto Luke Plange. The basic model - of wealthier clubs using their buying power to hoover up the better younger players - isn't going to change much soon though and the online availability of games at younger levels plus the presence of agents adds to the power - there's too much information.  Perhaps players shouldn't be allowed agents until they're 18; perhaps film of younger players shouldn't be available; perhaps younger players shouldn't be allowed to transfer clubs until they're 18?

I think that clubs like ours have to show our worth as developers of talent in order to compete - the facilities at Moor Farm are key, so too the level of coaching and the environment, and, above all, a route to the first team.  We fans can help by being supportive of the younger players and their inevitable errors, as we did last year particularly, but haven't always done.

The biggest change needed though is in football finance - the distribution/redistribution of TV revenues (little chance of that happening) and the impact of parachute payments, especially from PL to Championship, though its impact will begin to be felt lower down too 

[Boycie]

10 hours ago, David said:

The Premier League has too much power to see the rules change.

What we need is a change of mindset in younger players, but how many of us at the age of 17/18 would turn down 15k+ a week to sign for say Chelsea?

These kids can sit it out on their Chelsea wages, be sent to play a few games in Holland and Belgium, join a Championship club at 26 off the back of being raised at the Chelsea academy and play regular football for 5 years, retire and never have to work again. 

Ebiowei for example would have played every game for us this season when fit and available, now he’ll be watching Soccer Saturday in his London penthouse wearing his Gucci fluffy slippers earning more than double he would have to get smashed about away at Morecambe.

How could you possibly knock that?

Gone are the days where these younger players are cleaning first team boots, hoping for their Christmas bonus to help buy their first car, a used Vauxhall Corsa.

So yeah, I can’t see much changing.

Has he gone to Watford already? I missed that. 

[GenBr]

Won't make the slightest bit of difference. The EFL will never do anything that might hurt their masters in the Premier League. He will be shouting into the void as far as the rest of the board will be concerned.