Luneng Football School is currently the best football youth training base in China, and has cultivated a large number of high-quality young players for Shandong Taishan and other Chinese Super League and Chinese League A teams.
However, due to the imperfection of the player training system of Taishan Club and Luneng Football School in the past, there have been many youth players leaving, which has caused the club to suffer economic losses. For example, Wei Shihao unilaterally tore up the contract, left Luneng Football School to go around Portugal, and joined Shanghai Port as a free agent when he returned to China. Similar to Wei Shihao's situation is Tang Shi, who also joined Beijing Guoan as a free agent after returning from Portugal.
After suffering several big losses from Tang Wei, Taishan Club also became smarter, revised some clauses in the player training contract, and improved the system to make up for the previous loopholes. Now, the situation of Wei Shihao and Tang Shi will definitely not happen again.
According to some of the latest news from Shandong sports media, Taishan Club will get a valuable transfer fee through the transfer of players it has cultivated in the near future. That player is Kevin Santos, a young player from the youth academy of the Luneng Brazil Sports Center.
It is reported that Shakhtar Donetsk Club of the Ukrainian Premier League has met Kevin Santos and decided to bring in the young Brazilian striker for 12 million euros. According to FIFA's youth training compensation regulations, Taishan Club will receive 5% of the youth training compensation fee, that is, 600,000 euros, equivalent to about 5 million yuan.
The 21-year-old Kevin Santos, who has been trained professionally at the Luneng Brazil Sports Center since he was a child, is 1.76m tall and plays as a left and right winger on the field, and can also play as a center forward. Previously, he played for the youth team of Brazilian giants Palmeiras, and because of his high talent and excellent performance, Kevin was selected for the Brazilian Under-20 national youth team last year, showing quite good quality. As a result, it was favored by a number of European giants, and finally Shakhtar Donetsk took Kevin under his command for 12 million euros.
According to the latest news, Taishan Club also has some transfer rights for Kevin, and if this is the case, they can also get more transfer benefits in Kevin's transfer transactions in the future. And the 6 million yuan training compensation fee has also become the first player transfer income of Taishan Club in 2024.
In recent years, the Luneng Brazil Sports Center has cultivated many Brazilian players with great potential. However, none of these players have been able to play in the Chinese Super League, which is somewhat regrettable. After all, these Brazilian players want to develop better and can go to the Europa League in the future, where their potential can be further unleashed.
If they can get into the big clubs in Europe, these players will definitely make a lot more money than they can in the Super League. Although you can make a lot of money playing in the Chinese Super League, due to the limited level and various problems, it does not help these young players much in the future. Perhaps, this is also the fundamental reason why they are reluctant to play in China......