[article=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3093538/Jordon-Ibe-s-stepfather-given-scouting-job-Liverpool-negotiating-teenager-s-new-five-year-deal.html#ixzz3awviMb7T]Jordon Ibe’s stepfather will be given a job as a scout for Liverpool after successfully agreeing the teenage winger’s new five-year contract at the club.
Michael Carnegie is set to take up employment at Anfield having been on the opposite side of the negotiating table during extensive talks over an improved deal signed on Thursday.
Liverpool are confident no procedural issues arise from the forthcoming set up.
Under new FA guidelines ‘intermediaries’ – the term applied to agents in deals after FIFA deregulated the industry – must only act for one party in a transaction unless stated beforehand. The laws came into effect on April 1.
Individuals pay £500 and can only then take an active role in agency work. Carnegie is not registered as an intermediary with the FA, but Alan Middleton, his associate does feature on the official list.
Middleton is a solicitor and equal shareholder in NextGen Sports Management Limited, a company formed last December, alongside Carnegie and Burt Laurent, a football agent. Each man holds a third of the shares, according to documents on Companies House.
But Carnegie told Sporstmail he had recently stepped aside from NextGen – which has no connection to the former European youth league – although declined to say exactly when or why. His involvement was made public in reports last week.
Carnegie insisted his only role these past few weeks has been getting the best deal for his stepson Ibe, who joined Liverpool in December 2011. His new job for the club is expected to see him scour local junior prospects.
He has previously recommended a player to former academy director Frank McParland. McParland was sacked by Liverpool in November 2013.
Ibe told the Mail on Sunday recently he had no need for an agent and trusted his parents, Carnegie and mother Charlet, totally.[/article]
His involvement at Wycombe previously:
[article=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jordon-ibe-story---how-8841153]After his release from Charlton, it was Michael Carnegie, head of youth recruitment at Wycombe, who was responsible for setting Ibe back on the path to stardom.
Carnegie, a Londoner, was heavily involved in schools football at the time and had long been aware of Ibe's vast potential. He was involved with a South London district team containing a host of highly-promising youngsters. Several of them went on to sign professionally for clubs, but Ibe, of course, was the best of the bunch.
Carnegie, then, arranged for that side to play a game against Wycombe's youth team. Predictably, they dismantled the Academy kids with ease.
That night a group of them, including Ibe, were given forms to take home to their parents inviting them to come up to Wycombe.
It wasn't an ideal situation, logistically. The journey from Bermondsey to Wycombe takes around an hour and a half – in fact, Ibe's home only just fell within the boundaries of the 90-minute travelling rule that governed English youth football at the time.
But it was, in his family's words, 'do-able', so with their support Ibe entered the youth system at Adams Park and quickly began to progress.
“He was always better and above his age group, physically,” says Richard Dobson, his youth team coach at Wycombe. “He would go past kids of his age with ease and he always had that acceleration, pace and strength. He could use both feet too.
“We pushed him up the age groups. At 13 he would be playing in the U16s, and by 14 he was in the youth side, effectively the U18s. He needed that challenge, that test against more mature players.
“I alerted the England scouts to him at 13/14, they came down and watched him. They were umming and ahhing about him, but we knew we had something special.”
Wycombe became, in 2012, the first professional club in England to close its youth system, a victim of financial issues and the “increased demands” of the controversial Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP).
Before that though, the system, with Carnegie instrumental, had produced significant results. Ibe aside, Wycombe brought through the likes of Matt Phillips (now at QPR), Kadeem Harris (Cardiff), Charles Dunne (Blackpool) and Kortney Hause (Wolves). Phillips aside, all were London boys.
That fact, coupled with the care and attention given to players by the likes of Dobson and his staff, meant that Ibe enjoyed his time at the club. Those who know him speak of his “Wycombe family.”
He still returns to Adams Park regularly, seeking out Dobson (who is now the assistant manager) for a catch up.[/article]
Michael Carnegie is set to take up employment at Anfield having been on the opposite side of the negotiating table during extensive talks over an improved deal signed on Thursday.
Liverpool are confident no procedural issues arise from the forthcoming set up.
Under new FA guidelines ‘intermediaries’ – the term applied to agents in deals after FIFA deregulated the industry – must only act for one party in a transaction unless stated beforehand. The laws came into effect on April 1.
Individuals pay £500 and can only then take an active role in agency work. Carnegie is not registered as an intermediary with the FA, but Alan Middleton, his associate does feature on the official list.
Middleton is a solicitor and equal shareholder in NextGen Sports Management Limited, a company formed last December, alongside Carnegie and Burt Laurent, a football agent. Each man holds a third of the shares, according to documents on Companies House.
But Carnegie told Sporstmail he had recently stepped aside from NextGen – which has no connection to the former European youth league – although declined to say exactly when or why. His involvement was made public in reports last week.
Carnegie insisted his only role these past few weeks has been getting the best deal for his stepson Ibe, who joined Liverpool in December 2011. His new job for the club is expected to see him scour local junior prospects.
He has previously recommended a player to former academy director Frank McParland. McParland was sacked by Liverpool in November 2013.
Ibe told the Mail on Sunday recently he had no need for an agent and trusted his parents, Carnegie and mother Charlet, totally.[/article]
His involvement at Wycombe previously:
[article=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jordon-ibe-story---how-8841153]After his release from Charlton, it was Michael Carnegie, head of youth recruitment at Wycombe, who was responsible for setting Ibe back on the path to stardom.
Carnegie, a Londoner, was heavily involved in schools football at the time and had long been aware of Ibe's vast potential. He was involved with a South London district team containing a host of highly-promising youngsters. Several of them went on to sign professionally for clubs, but Ibe, of course, was the best of the bunch.
Carnegie, then, arranged for that side to play a game against Wycombe's youth team. Predictably, they dismantled the Academy kids with ease.
That night a group of them, including Ibe, were given forms to take home to their parents inviting them to come up to Wycombe.
It wasn't an ideal situation, logistically. The journey from Bermondsey to Wycombe takes around an hour and a half – in fact, Ibe's home only just fell within the boundaries of the 90-minute travelling rule that governed English youth football at the time.
But it was, in his family's words, 'do-able', so with their support Ibe entered the youth system at Adams Park and quickly began to progress.
“He was always better and above his age group, physically,” says Richard Dobson, his youth team coach at Wycombe. “He would go past kids of his age with ease and he always had that acceleration, pace and strength. He could use both feet too.
“We pushed him up the age groups. At 13 he would be playing in the U16s, and by 14 he was in the youth side, effectively the U18s. He needed that challenge, that test against more mature players.
“I alerted the England scouts to him at 13/14, they came down and watched him. They were umming and ahhing about him, but we knew we had something special.”
Wycombe became, in 2012, the first professional club in England to close its youth system, a victim of financial issues and the “increased demands” of the controversial Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP).
Before that though, the system, with Carnegie instrumental, had produced significant results. Ibe aside, Wycombe brought through the likes of Matt Phillips (now at QPR), Kadeem Harris (Cardiff), Charles Dunne (Blackpool) and Kortney Hause (Wolves). Phillips aside, all were London boys.
That fact, coupled with the care and attention given to players by the likes of Dobson and his staff, meant that Ibe enjoyed his time at the club. Those who know him speak of his “Wycombe family.”
He still returns to Adams Park regularly, seeking out Dobson (who is now the assistant manager) for a catch up.[/article]
