Pedro leaves for Ateltico Paranaense

[Dicks and chicks]

From bbc sport: Pedro Botelho signs for Brazilian club Atletico Paranaense following an unsuccessful five-year stay at Arsenal. The 22-year-old defender had loan spells at Salamanca, Celta Vigo, Cartagena, Rayo Vallecano and Levante during his time with the Gunners.

Arsenal FC have confirmed this:http://www.arsenal.com/news/reserves...ico-paranaense

[Flavs]

di du dum dum dum...another one bites the dust

[Dicks and chicks]

seems like a lot of Wenger's failed youth players move on to really mediocre clubs, Amauary Bischoff, Giles Sunu, justin hoyte, gavin hoyte.


On a serious note it seems like more of Wenger's youngsters seem to be failing even after 4-5 years at the club they don't seem to develop well, pedro's situation reminds me a lot of carlos vela.

[Marc Overmars]

Project youth.

[IBK]

Meh - its always a risk picking up players at 17 - because so many factors prevent them into developing into top players. Its not the principle I object to so much (particularly if we are paying very junior playes peanuts), its our financial committment to more expensive punts.

[Fist of Lehmann]

Yep, a high level of natural wastage is inherent in this strategy.

It should come as no surprise when most of these youngsters don't make it. At this age the gap between early sprouters and late starters can be huge. A kid who looked a prodigy at 17 may just have done most of his developing already.

Trying to predict how a kid will be after 5-6 years of development is extrememly hard. We take as many of the good ones we can get (within youth budget) and hope that they develop to the kind of level required to play at the top of possibly the toughest domestic league in the world. Most of them won't make it.

You get a far better strike rate buying at 21-24 but the price by then is already pretty high. Hell, kids like Lucas Moura and Gotze are already £30m+ at 19, those are the exceptionals.

[Dicks and chicks]

Yep, a high level of natural wastage is inherent in this strategy.

It should come as no surprise when most of these youngsters don't make it. At this age the gap between early sprouters and late starters can be huge. A kid who looked a prodigy at 17 may just have done most of his developing already.

Trying to predict how a kid will be after 5-6 years of development is extrememly hard. We take as many of the good ones we can get (within youth budget) and hope that they develop to the kind of level required to play at the top of possibly the toughest domestic league in the world. Most of them won't make it.

You get a far better strike rate buying at 21-24 but the price by then is already pretty high. Hell, kids like Lucas Moura and Gotze are already £30m+ at 19, those are the exceptionals.

surely lucas mora and Gotze have the potential to fizzle out as well, both of them are young and both of them have achieved relatively very little in their careers so far

[Cripps_orig]

He will be missed

[Asthmatic Kitty]

he was pretty good on fifa iirc!

[Fist of Lehmann]

surely lucas mora and Gotze have the potential to fizzle out as well, both of them are young and both of them have achieved relatively very little in their careers so far

Absolutely they do. Their price tags are indicative of a transfer market spiralling into insane levels.