In general, the reason why players get targeted is that they have some sort of advantage. They either have 9+ potential (meaning MVP, Hall of Famer, or All Time Great) or they start with a high amount of skill points at a 7 or 8 potential (for 19 year olds anything 65+ is considered very good, for 18 year olds anything 55+ is considered very good). We want to make it possible for these players to fall into the hands of people that want to train.
So what qualifies anyone as someone who wants to train? It doesn't say "must be offsite" it doesn't say "Must be an owner that has promoted 3-4 times" it says "Anyone willing to give a guy 48 minutes at the position they are training 14 weeks a season". If you have a willingness to do that, then you not only have the ability to make a player for you club team, but also the u21 team. If the player has 5 or 6 potential and you want to train 8-9 weeks a season, then that makes perfect sense to me too. You have a guy with limited potential, so he'll cap before he hits 25 in most cases, and you have a perfectly good talent for D.IV and D.III games where people don't have complete teams. So you'll learn about the game that way too. What we want to do is make sure a player that is getting drafted to a team gets trained. The teams we really target to sell are those that don't see the value in their players that we do. Because when we see value, that means money for the owner.
Lets talk a little bit about whats in it for both sides in terms of economics. What is in it for an owner that sells their talent initially?
A player not even at 55 TSP but instead at 51 TSP at 7 potential is aiming at 350k. The higher the TSP, the more money that usually gets offered. The more OD/PA/JR they have as a guard, the higher veteran owners will pay. A 55 TSP 19 year old at 7 potential? They are hard pressed to sell for 100k in some places. I see a few that flat at 350k, but nobody is making a profit on zero training in year 1 to year 2. Most lose money for hesitating with good talent. So the economics are in the game for new owners to sell their better 7 potential talent for cash. If you have superstar under these economics? looks like 500-800k for the most part. MVP is going 1.5-2m, HOF is super expensive if good. You can literally fund building a team and trying the game out on your own terms by taking advantage of veteran owners fighting over your talent.
Let's look at the economics if you want to develop your own talent, whether it be u21 worthy or not. I've trained 6 different players in earnest over the last 7 seasons or so.
Brock Boyce (4k)
Stuart Champion (583k)
Gavin Cornwallis (25k)
Freddi Omerza (351k)
Bob Mayberry (318k)
Tom Bernier (1.3m)
Don Jewell (129k)
I'm holding onto Jewell and Cornwallis still, and am looking at about 4million in cashflow because of my time investments into training those players and selling them for funding my team's performance. Not all of those guys were the u21 and NT level, they were all trained to be better players so that i could get the cash required to compete at NBBA or D.II level once i had talent that i wanted to keep ready to go.
So you can make immediate money off of good fortune, or develop talent your own way, or develop it our way. These options are all fair. The 4th option that teams take is training less than 5 weeks a season, in some cases zero, that I am trying to prevent when i ask my scouts to deliver that message.