Düsseldorf (dpa) – Four managers from professional football spoke out vehemently in a joint talk round for the containment of player changes in the youth sector. “This change in youth football annoys me enormously,” said sports director Christian Keller from Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln at the “Rheinische Bundesliga summit” of the “Rheinische Post”: “The 13-year-old supposed super talent is paid a lot of money, which in the end does not necessarily arrive at the highest level in the active area.” FC made a conscious decision “that there is only pocket money up to the U19s. For some it’s small, for some it’s a little better. But nobody can live on it.”
His colleague Simon Rolfes from neighboring Bayer Leverkusen sees it similarly. “It doesn’t make sense that one of the youth goes from the south to the west and one from the west to the south. That doesn’t lead to success,” said the Leverkusen managing director: “There is a free choice of clubs and we will do that not to zero. But we have to think about what options there are to contain and reduce that.”
Sports director Klaus Allofs from the second division team Fortuna Düsseldorf pointed out that the DFL commission looked at football statistics “which countries are doing well in the youth field. Unfortunately, we are one of the countries that are doing less well.” It was a fact that “there are disproportionately more changes in our academies than in countries where it works well. It can therefore be assumed that it would often be good for players to stay longer with clubs.”
Sports director Roland Virkus from Borussia Mönchengladbach appealed to solidarity among the clubs. “That would do the market good and calm it down,” he said. “We all have to question ourselves.”
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2023-08-10 05:18:22
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