Ryan Sessegnon
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rossdapep
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It's a refreshing change and goes to show that he does have good people around him. And as much as I wanted us to sign him, I wish more were encouraged to do this and it's good to know not all young kids are being told to follow the money. As long as we are front of the queue when he's ready to move on.
MunkoSpurs
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It appears that too often young, talented players choose the bigger contracts on offer at the rich clubs and their development suffers. It looks like he has a good character and/or is listening to sound advice and I hope he goes on to have a good career. Obviously I would have preferred that he signed for us but as this is not the case at the moment, it's good see a young player presumably turn down bigger £'s to stay where he feels is best for his career.
FibreOpticJesus
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Agreed. But surely we could have come up with a proposal where we loaned him to a PL club like a Bournemouth for a year? Meaning he would get PL experience rather than Championship experience.
Trix
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Why would any premier league club give a guarantee of game time to a 17yo who has never kicked a ball in the Prem when there is so much riding on the outcome?
FibreOpticJesus
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Because he is potentially the next Deli. Notwithstanding that we could loan him back to Fulham or another Champ Club.
Trix
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But he already has that, and IF he continues to progress he will be in a much stronger position next Summer. Remember it's not just us he has turned down. He has decided to stay at Fulham, so it's clearly about football and not a money issue.
tiger666
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Makes no difference to the club he's on loan to for one season. They have no reason to play him.
Trix
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Indeed it he's is not currently better than what they have why would they want him? His potential means nothing to them.
FibreOpticJesus
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I note what you say. But if you follow your line of thought there would be no players out on loan! Chelsea and City are making it work. Personally I hate the loan system. My view is whilst this system is allowed we should have invested.
fecka
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What Trix is saying is completely true. You can't force a club, i.e Bournemouth, to loan a player and play him. The only reason some clubs take players on loan are because they think that they improve the team short-term in some way. If no one in the prem wants to guarantee Sessegnon playing time he's currently better off staying with Fulham.
Adam456
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Hope we can still get him but for the record.....we could I'm sure have offered something even better - stay at Fulham on loan with no recall for 2 seasons on bigger money than Fulham were likely to offer. He would still only be 19 when he finished there and the secotnd season could well have been in the prem.
Do you think anybody else was offering that ?
Do you think anybody else was offering that ?
Trix
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Yes but the kids City and Chelsea are loaning out are not to Premier league clubs who already have better players in those positions. Why would a club weaken itself just to play a player that was going to benefit someone else in the future?
The kids is obviously going to be a real talent I would love to have seen us try to buy him and loan him back to to Fulham as we don`t have a position free for him at the moment anyway, but in one or two seasons we probably will cash in Davies or Rose so we could have just slotted him in.
Trix
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How do you know we didn't?
sam1972
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Because he signed a new contract with FFC
He signed his first ever contract (he was an apprentice before). Doesn't mean we're out of the run. Just means we now have to pay an actual fee for him rather than a tribunal
Trix
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Considering the fact he already has top clubs chasing him, he could stay this season at FFC and be in a much stronger negotiating position next season. As an 18yo with a full season under his belt, and also probable a fair few games at national youth levels, he would be able to ask for far more than he can currently.
Do you know that we did?
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