Arsenal have paid Feyenoord €700,000 euros as a “training allowance” after signing midfielder Kyle Ebecilio on a free transfer. The Gunners were able to sign the Dutch Under 16 international for nothing due to contractual laws in Holland but the Rotterdam based club were furious at losing one of their brightest prospects.
Laws in the Netherlands state a scholarship contract can not be issued until the player is 17-years-old, a year younger than in England. This meant Arsenal were free to approach and sign Ebecelio, leaving Feyenoord left fuming. Minor officials labelled the transfer “child trafficking” but in a bid to clear the air, a one off payment of €700,000 euros has changed hands.
Kyle will put pen to paper on a scholarship with the Gunners on July 1st, subject to the completion of a medical. He had previously held talks with Chelsea and had reportedly even visited their Cobham training base. However, Arsène Wenger made a personal call to the youngster, reassuring him his future would be in better hands in the North of the capital. A deal was quickly done.
A giant 6 foot central midfielder who can play on the wings, Ebecilio has immense power but superbly quick feet. A set-piece expert, he starred for Feyenoord’s ‘B’ team last season – a level where his cousin Jeffrey Bruma also impressed at before switching to Chelsea in 2007.
At international level, Kyle is regarded as the best in the ranks. He shone in front of a watching Liam Brady in February when his strong run and cross from the right created an own goal against Ireland, a game where fellow new boy Philip Roberts was on the score sheet.
Ebecilio is expected to be a regular for Steve Bould’s Under 18’s next season.
Talking to Feyenoord fans they didn’t seem to rate him much. Maybe they’re just bitter he’s going. Surprising signing nonetheless considering how stacked we are in central midfield.
i am sure there are quiet a few promising stars at arsenal that you don’t know that much about and as such no surprise there
6 foot? That’s good news. We need some bigger lads to give us some more physical presence for the years ahead.
Thanks for this update. I am so glad we have signed this very bright prospect. It is sweeter to know he rejected Chelski for us.
Right on brother! Adds a little extra to the good news :D
Who would you say was higher rated in Holland when we signed them Ozzie? or Ebecilio?
Will Wellington be with us from Pre-Season and onwards or has he not got the required documents yet?????
I think he will play on the wings for us next season with a trio of Ozzie, Aneke and yennaris in the middle
Gr8 news, but we need more Natural Wingers. We lack Wingers in the academies or reserves.
J dont you think we spend too much money on players we can get for free
example
Ebecillio we could have got him for free but we paid 700,000euros for him
same with
Coquelin he should have been for free but we paid his club a million dollars
any idea why we do that? especially when we dont have to
It’s all about building good relations. Feyenoord have good players, if we leave them with a bad experience of Arsenal then maybe in the future if we want one of their players, they will not want to do business or charge us a bigger than normal price. If you behave well and build up good relations then it pays well in the future. Half a million pounds now, could save us a good few million in the future on a potential player.
Chelsea and Man Utd have treated club’s badly, quite within their rights to, like the Pogba deal etc and now those clubs have a bas taste of what United are Chelsea are all about. A good reputation is priceless.
I’ve always loved Dutch players(Bergkamp being my fav player of all time) in the red and white, so welcome Ebecilio!
Any news on Galindo’s work permit, J??? How long it usually takes???
Any idea what the deal is on Wellington J? Will he be with us next season or sent back after pre season.
my question is the same as the gooner about wellington.jay is wellington coming here as special talent or will here be loaned out.
Are there no youngsters we can promote from within at this age group?
We seem to buy an awful lot of dutch and spanish kids. We need more coming through the hale end ranks
Aneke, Yennaris, Ansah there are a lot of youngsters who are 16 year old who will be regular next season
you forgot Harjovic and Angha
700,000 is nothing lol…..i would be upset aswell if i was feyenoord. I am conflicted on how i feel about this anymore. We have to do it tho with so many teams spend 20 and 30 million plus on players.
J
is it true Braidy tried to sign Gerrado kid from Barca but he rejected our advances and said he will stick with Barca ?
Arsenal have signed Cole on a 4 year deal with 80K salary and 2 million on bonuses
meaning a salary around 115K a year including bonuses
Please don’t post rubbish here, Andrew. You know better than to listen to speculation like that.
I think the source is reliable dude otherwise I wouldnt have posted it you know that
You “think” the source is reliable? there’s a lot of speculation and rubbish around. One site said we’d signed Brede Hangeland recently. Cole is away with England, don’t expect anything real to be talked about or done until after the World Cup.
No offence J but you have posted some article on here that have turned out to be rubbish so you are being a bit harsh on this guy.
Nah I’ve reported on some stories which haven’t come off. Whenever I’ve put my weight behind a deal and said myself it’s happening, it’s happened. So you can’t really play that card.
You once reported that Merida had already signed a precontract for Atletico Madrid in january and that turned out to be flat wrong. Yes eventually he signed there just like eventually joe cole could sign here but the fact is you were flat out wrong. You have also posted youth game reports that never happened. Just saying no need to jump the guy for making a comment. Thats all mate.
we released almunia http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/statistiken/wettbewerbe/transfers.html
wow thats pretty big? do u think this is real? i hope so :D if so it looks like wenger is not messing around anymore!
Arsenal steal another foriegn talent to sell to Fizzy pop league for shareholders profit.
Is that another brown bag off to Dublin. 6 years no trophy and no english talent in the 1st team
or in English national team. Yeah i forgot this is arsene fc
what’s wrong with you
Walcott – English
Gibbs – – English
Eastmond – English
Wilshere – English
Lansbury – English
upcoming English Talent in our Ranks
Bartley – English
Aneke – English
JET – English
I think we have more than enough English talent coming through our Ranks
do you know how much English footballers cost? They are generally over priced and well kwon so we have to compete financially with Man Utd , Chelsea and man city for them which we cant do.
You are right tho….this is Arsene FC.
Seriously tho. Whats happening with Wellington Silva?
he’s coming in jan and a month for training with the first team
Some news about other former trialists:
-Dennis Praet ———> Anderlecht
-Ingolfur Sigurdsson —-> Heerenveen
Veljko Batrovic is apparentely about to sign a contract extension at Bubamare, although the same source stated that AC Milan, AS Roma and Arsenal are still interested and all of them had scouts at a youth teournament in April when he played for Montenegro u17. Sanderson, do you know if we’re still interested+ some information about our interest in Lasse Vigen christensen?
Veljko Batrovic is the player I really want us to sign he looks awesome and he’s a winger which we desperately need
Did we put a visa in for silva yet? We dont even fully own him yet do we?
For gods sakes not another blasted central midfielder!
survival of the fittest?
Its all about not missing out on the best players
Feyenoord didn’t have a choose, because the kid refused to sign a contract at Feyenoord, the club he owes everything but when Wenger calls and offers him a big salary who could refuse.
Should be some rules that clubs can’t buy/sign foreigners under 18 years old.
Feyenoord and Arsenal should be working together, Arsenal sends some 18-20 year players to Feyenoord so they get the experience they otherwise possibly wil not get.
Win-win situation
Feyenoord gets good players for 1 or 2 years
The player gets experience
choose should be choice ofcourse
Apologies for other faults I’ve written down:P
It is a tricky situation. In some ways i believe it helps for u18s to move, especially if the are in a bad environment or a non proffesional setting like Galindo. When it hurts the game is when young players listen to agents, coaches, and others and move from their home clubs to a foreign big club thinking that is the best rout. It makes it impossible for smaller nations teams like Holland to compete anymore. Really it all comes down to money. That is what ruins the game.
I think their league suffers but not the country their players train with the best managers from around the world and players and get better technically, physically and also mentally
thats what i am talking about. The leagues and club teams and actually yes it does hurt the National team aswell. Look at holland….how many of their national team was brought up in a foreign academy? They were all produced in holland. Now alot of their young talent is buried in big foreign clubs.
Van Persie came to us at the age of 21 so he became a world beater with us and we can do the same with Barazite (who I hold in high regards) and maybe even this Ebecilio kid
Van Persie came through a dutch acedemy. You are arguing the wrong points. I have said Arsenal are good inividually for young players. I am talking about football as a whole. Not 1 of the dutch national team played for a foreign academy. You cant deny that. I just really wish players played in their own national leagues and for medium leagues longer then they do. A young dutch kid supporting Ajax will never get to see a Cruyff, Ibrahimovic, Neskeens, van Basten, etc play in or close to their prime for ajax ever again. Players move at 16 or if they stay, the move after 1 good year at 21. Everyone is in such a hurry to join a massive club anymore. Why do 22 year old cennter backs need to be moving to chelsea just to warm the bench? I just wish for more parady in football so more fans can feel the joy of success and football.
that depends on the players when they move
if they are smart then they will move when they are ready but playing with the best of best can only make them better
What these leagues need to do is make themselves more competitve in europe bring world class players to their clubs, do wha the PL did to become so successful
???????????????????…………..THE SMALL EUROPEAN LEAGUES CAN NOT AFFORD BIG NAME PALYERS. That is why they really on produce home grown talent. I feel like you just got lost in that last comment.
just playing players from your home country limits the commerical and marketing potential of the league the reason PL has been so successful is because we have players from every country playing here but its not the same with these leagues.
They need to tap the commercial abilities these leagues possess bring players from every country and improve the competitiveness of their leagues.
Certain countries cant compete that way. They have to do it in a footballing way. You are arguing against something that worked just fine in the past. Ajax, Celtic, Benfica all use to be able to build and i say “build” successful clubs buy developing most homegrown talent. Now days they have no shot and alot of the are or will be in financial trouble. Money has simply taken out alot of the joy of football.
In the past footballers spend their entire footballing lives at a single football club. Times have changed now footballer want to play in the best leagues, they want to play in the CL with the best teams. If clubs like Ajax, Fenebache still think they can do what they did in the 70’s-80’s then they are sadly mistaken
What are you talking about…..i dont think you understand financial structure mate. Also there is no issue with players joining the Barcas and reals but players use to do it after they won something with there home club. Cruyff won the champions league and then moved to barca. Like i said, yes the game has changed…it is all about money. Simple and that is a shame.
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talking about 1st team players not squad fillers loanees. Never use English talent and the word Walcott together- he is a joke thats why he plays 1 in 10 games and is on holiday and not in S Africa- another success story on 60k p/wk. arsene knows
when did people start putting so much pressure on 21 years old
Walcott is 21 remember that
who was it that catylised the 2-2 draw against barca!
i can not believe the amount of critisism of walcott. he was our best player at the end of last year. he scored a good goal against wigan
Walcott I think we can all agree isnt close to the finished product but how many youngsters are? Cesc maybe the exception but most youngsters have just started to find their feet in the first team at this stage but when you have such a young squad then expectations are a lot higher on them.
Still fans should know better I mean the guy just turned 21 and has been under scrutiny since he was taken to the world cup at the age of 17
J
any idea where we are with Gai Assulin? are we any closer to signing him
Just wanted to know if anyone knows if we are still interested in Ignacio Camacho. I believe he is available on a Free Transfer from July 1st and thought he might be a wild card considering we have followed him since he was 17. Does anybody else think he may be a good choice as another option for a screening midfielder or do you think Wenger prefers Eastmond?
@JP now it that was true that would be wonderful news! I would gladly swap Merida for him. I really like this player…
shame that the home grown talent are left behind in salaries that are offered to all scholars, foreign imports are known to get 3 to 4 times more than a home grown talent.
Even worse is due to money spent , they are given a golden path to reserves, Martin Angha prime example when we have home grown players who are miles better.
y we still need to recruit another midfielder even there r so many great prospect in this position…