What does feeder club really mean?..Like sporting lisbon is feeder club to MU..Just to MU?..Or is feeder to every club?

A farm team, or feeder team, generally refers to a team or club whose role it is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players will move on to a bigger side at a certain point. This system can be implemented in many ways, both formally and informally.

The term is also used as a metaphor for any organization or activity that serves as a training ground for higher-level endeavors. For instance, sometimes business schools are referred to as "farm clubs" for the world of business.

Source : The All-Mighty Wikipedia ~

This post has been edited by Vinci777: Dec 19 2006, 10:56 PM

Means that sporting lisbon can sell player to other clubs too?

Its like MU takes Sporting Lisbon as a school for its younger players... If they geng ard... MU can take it back and play for them...

Not just Sporting but Royal Antwerp is also MU's feeder club.. that's why many young player from MU sent to Antwerp like Campbell n Dong Fang Zhao..

Man utd will be able to send player on loan to Sporting and Antwerp as well. Man utd also have first option to buy player from these feeder club. Iy's mean once a bid for a player is accepted by these feeder club, a bid of same value from man utd also be accepted.. Then it's up to the player to decide his future..

*taken from FM2007

I suggest we discuss this on man utd thread.. no need to open a new thread..

open a new one because not only MU have feeder club ma..haha..

feeder club means if they get paid every seasons.
the parent club has first option on feeder club when they purchase or sell players.

for example, CR. Man utd got 1st option where they can get it without even fighting with other clubs to buy them.

and, if Sporting Lisbon wants to buy a player, Man utd got the privilage to get the player too..means like your parents and you are the child.

and, parent club can send players for loan to the feeder club anytime without signing any loan contract. =)

correct me if im wrong.

This post has been edited by bubucaca: Dec 20 2006, 12:07 AM

i think also too (place where big clubs loan their young players for exposure or for permit application). but i guess depends on the agreement with the parent club and the feeder whether parent club have the first option to buy their feeder club's players. parent club wud pay the feeder clubs..

players can choose whether they wanna go on loan to the feeder club or or going on loan to other clubs but a lot of the time, they wud choose (encouraged by their parent club) to accept to go to the feeder club. usually feeder club are not such a big team. like antwerp. so players who jz need a bit more exposure does not want to go to these feeder clubs. they'd rather go to other clubs that might be more competetive (like the championship team).

p/s:i dunno lisbon is one of ManUtd's feeder clubs list tho. is it true?

Haha..now i noe more about feeder club..Thanks you all!!

Feeder club got lotsa usage. It all depends to the feeder club and the parent club agreements. Doesn't means can send player for loan to all feeder clubs. Only certain feeder club with agreements that stated agreeing for receiving players from the club and the parents club have to pay for the salary that player is going on loan and also the feeder club an access of money annually.
Other feeder club also can be function as supplying youth player to the club. This one may not need annual fees but when they sign the youth players. The signing on fee is needed.
Another type of feeder club is if there is other Football club which is not the Parents Club is bidding their player. The parents club can bid as well for the player if they want the player. Either the bidding price is same or higher, the player will goes to the parent club first.
So one parent club may have lotsa feeder clubs to act different kind of role. Feeder Club also using this chance to increase their income.

Hope you're much more clearer now.

yeah..really much clearer:)..btw,i only know sporting lisbon is feeder to MU,what about other clubs?chelsea,arsenal,real?

go install football manager 2007. and see yourself.

American and Chinese feeder clubs get you tons of money.

If I'm not mistaken Beveren (Belgium) is Arsenal's feeder (sorry no FM2007)

got it simple ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feede...ams_in_football

This post has been edited by affinity_07: Dec 20 2006, 09:21 PM

thanks again for all teh info

Liverpool also have Crewe, Le Havre and one of the african club

And feeder club also can be used to avoid work permit for English Club. For example, Dong Fangzhuo, he can't joined Man Utd 3 years ago due to failure to get a work permit so he was loan to Royal Antwerp for three years to gain a Belgium passport so that he is qualify to play in Europe. Correct me if i'm wrong



This post has been edited by Meganova: Aug 27 2007, 10:35 PM

feeder clubs are actually smaller clubs that have a mutual agreement on various fields with a more successful/rich club...

the parent club usually have an advantage over transfer of players of their feeder club. It is called the "First option"...Parent clubs have the first option on all the players that are going to be put on sale.It means that, if the feeder club received a formal bid for a player from Club A and they have agreed on a fee..the parent club can intervene if they can match the fee agreed with Club A...and the player must be sold to the parent club as per instruction on the "first option" rule..

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Added on October 16, 2007, 5:11 pmit was not to avoid, work permit cannot be avoided....the reason behind Dong's move to Antwerp besides not being granted a work permit is to prepare him for european football and to get him into regular first team action..and after three long years..Utd won the appeal and Dong is granted with a work permit..

This post has been edited by cekutz: Oct 16 2007, 05:11 PM