Very keen to hear more takes on the potential of young players to move overseas in the new format. Will everything be okay if you’re a youngster playing for a middling team in the new South Island league?
Oscar Obel-Hall only played two games for Christchurch United’s first team before being picked up by Esbjerg in Denmark. How much of this is due to overseas leagues keeping an eye on the MPL, and how much is a product of Chch Utd as a club and how they’re run? Ignoring the money pumped in as it’s barely pertinent - their website, public relations, coaching setup, foreign outreach and overall image are clearly much, much more attractive than most teams in the country, so fair to assume many more foreign eyes will be on their setup from first teams all the way down the grades.
Don’t want to name names but if you’re a youngster for a club that makes no effort to modernise and catch up with the times, and you’re a promising young player wanting to get noticed overseas, what’s the point in staying at that club?