Lamine Sidibe

[EddieColquhoun]

 

[Yogi]

Shame I hope we keep him he’s a talented player with a great story and was playing his football a literal stones throw from the lane. If we lose him it’ll be a shocking statement on the state of modern football

 

[KMC-1889]

Shame I hope we keep him he’s a talented player with a great story and was playing his football a literal stones throw from the lane. If we lose him it’ll be a shocking statement on the state of modern football

Do we have a choice? If he’s on a youth contract cat 1 are free to poach him and pay a tribunal fee?

Don’t know much about him other than a lot of people that follow the development team rave about him.

 

[Yogi]

Do we have a choice? If he’s on a youth contract cat 1 are free to poach him and pay a tribunal fee?

Don’t know much about him other than a lot of people that follow the development team rave about him.

No we haven’t got a choice all we can do is offer him a deal and try and convince him we’re the best place for his development.

It wasn’t a criticism of United if anything the club deserves praise they’ve given and opportunity to and helped develop a lad who’s had some real hardship in his life and given a lad who’s settled in Sheffield the chance and means to change his life and the life of his family. I have nothing but pride for the role the club and the grassroots football set ups in Sheffield and people who give their time to them have played in this lads story. It’s something we as fans of the club and people of Sheffield should be exceptional proud of every time one of these lads goes and makes a good career for themselves.

It’s more a criticism of the way the football system is currently set up that allows children to be traded as commodities. It’s one thing academy players moving when their pathway is blocked and they try to make a career it’s another now clubs hoarding youth talent by swinging in last minute before they can sign pro deals.

I have mixed feelings about us chasing the lads from Swindon for that reason but he is older and at 18 they have had the chance to offer him pro terms for the last couple of years but haven’t done so in time and that’s their oversight.

 

[Drachblade]

No we haven’t got a choice all we can do is offer him a deal and try and convince him we’re the best place for his development.

It wasn’t a criticism of United if anything the club deserves praise they’ve given and opportunity to and helped develop a lad who’s had some real hardship in his life and given a lad who’s settled in Sheffield the chance and means to change his life and the life of his family. I have nothing but pride for the role the club and the grassroots football set ups in Sheffield and people who give their time to them have played in this lads story. It’s something we as fans of the club and people of Sheffield should be exceptional proud of every time one of these lads goes and makes a good career for themselves.

It’s more a criticism of the way the football system is currently set up that allows children to be traded as commodities. It’s one thing academy players moving when their pathway is blocked and they try to make a career it’s another now clubs hoarding youth talent by swinging in last minute before they can sign pro deals.

I have mixed feelings about us chasing the lads from Swindon for that reason but he is older and at 18 they have had the chance to offer him pro terms for the last couple of years but haven’t done so in time and that’s their oversight.

Brilliant response Yogi

 

[Bergen Blade]

What is his best position? The tweet says forward, but he played in midfield when I watched him?

 

[Wards]

What is his best position? The tweet says forward, but he played in midfield when I watched him?

Think he started as a forward last season but moved back to midfield for the majority of it. Chipped in with quite a few goals too.

 

[KMC-1889]

Should we read much into this? Pro contracts penned but his name missing from the list?

Eleven pen pro deals

Eleven players have signed their first professional contracts at the club ahead of the 2025/26 Professional Development League season.

www.sufc.co.uk

 

[Teddybear]

I am suprised Lamine Sidibe wasnt a offered a pro contract, some player in the making big powerfull unit scores goals for fun, give him a contract blades the wolves are circling I believe utb

 

[Houso]

I am suprised Lamine Sidibe wasnt a offered a pro contract, some player in the making big powerfull unit scores goals for fun, give him a contract blades the wolves are circling I believe utb

He may have been. It takes two to tango.

 

[Blade56]

If we become a Cat 1 Academy does it affect our ability to hang onto our best prospects?

 

[Yogi]

If we become a Cat 1 Academy does it affect our ability to hang onto our best prospects?

Yes and no. Yes in that we’d be able to make a better pitch to the player to stay as we’d have facilities and coaching that merited top end classification and so we could make a better pitch that development here would be as good as elsewhere. However that would likely still ring hollow when compared to the small towns that the big academies have now become.

So you’d still have to make the same pitch we do now that being stay here you’re more likely to break through into the team get experience and make it as a pro we’d just be doing that whilst also saying we have one of the best facilities in the country but not a world class facility.

Other clubs would still be able to make offers to our players and any fee we’d get for those players would still be decided at tribunal on the same terms it is now.

What Cat 1 would allow us to do is recruit nationally whereas now we can only recruit within our region. What that means is if an academy makes an offer to their player then we can as well but only within our region. That presumably is what’s happened with the lad coming over from Liverpool that they had also offered a deal to. We can’t do that on a national level so if Arsenal or Spurs offer a player a contract we can’t also offer that player a deal

We can bring in players from a national level but they are either players who their parent clubs haven’t offered deals to like the lads we’ve picked up from Chelsea in recent years or are players on senior deals that we’ve paid a fee for like we would with a senior player like we did with Peck even though they’re going into the academy.

 

[Champagneblade]

I wonder if Livingston are having similar threads on their site about the young winger and Ryan Oné.

There should be a rule change to stop this but as usual every time there is a desire to get more money to the EFL, concessions around thing like this get made.

It should be 18 minimum and only after the current club has offered a deal. None of this swooping in nonsense.

It looks like Wednesday as well as losing Cadamarteri will be losing a lad who is even younger which I also don’t agree with.

 

[adamawdhali]

I wonder if Livingston are having similar threads on their site about the young winger and Ryan Oné.

There should be a rule change to stop this but as usual every time there is a desire to get more money to the EFL, concessions around thing like this get made.

It should be 18 minimum and only after the current club has offered a deal. None of this swooping in nonsense.

It looks like Wednesday as well as losing Cadamarteri will be losing a lad who is even younger which I also don’t agree with.

Blackburn lost a 13 year old to Chelsea recently for £750k the other day. Ridiculous

 

[EddieColquhoun]

I wonder if Livingston are having similar threads on their site about the young winger and Ryan Oné.

I doubt it pal. They came from Hamilton Academical.

 

[Champagneblade]

I doubt it pal. They came from Hamilton Academical.

You’re right! But same sentiment.

Things like this, the football regulator should be honing in on.