The team that Oskar Glöch joins is the champion of Austria for the last nine seasons, the holder of the Austrian cup for eight of the last nine seasons and one that has played in the group stage of the Champions League for the last four seasons.
Its quality is clear and known, but it is also known that Red Bull Salzburg is first of all a transit station.
springboard.
For players of Gloch's type - foreign, teenage, attacking and talented - the club, supported by the energy drinks concern, is a destination whose main goal is to increase the player's market value and sell him at a profit.
Simply put, make money.
That's the philosophy, that's the expertise, that's what Red Bull Salzburg does - it really gives these players wings.
Just look at the list of her biggest sales of all time.
The top ten includes, according to the amount for which they were sold (from the highest to the lowest), Brandon Aaronson (Leeds), Karim Adeyemi (Dortmund), Patson Daka (Leicester), Naby Keita (Leipzig), Benjamin Sheshko (Leipzig), Enoch Amufu (Brighton) ), Sadio Mane (Southampton), Dominic Soboslai (Leipzig), Erling Holland (Dortmund), and Amadou Heidara (Leipzig).
All these players have a lot in common: they all came to the team at a young age from relatively peripheral destinations in the soccer world (Norway, Zambia, Hungary, Slovenia, USA, Mali, Senegal), they all played up to three years at the club and they were all sold when they were 22 years old or younger.
Mane, photo: Reuters
"Looking for 16-19 year olds"
This is a project that the group has been working on for several years.
In an interview with EFE, the respected professional director Christopher Freund said that this project was born in 2012.
The team decided to give up old and experienced players and concentrate on the next generation.
In 2014, the club's magnificent training complex was built, which includes some of the most intriguing innovations in the field of football training, and since then the team has been looking for the right players to put in there.
"We are only looking for 16-19-year-old players," said Fraund, "Agents send us many names, but the majority do not fit in age or do not fit our philosophy."
The philosophy is mainly offensive.
High pressure, passes, movement without the ball.
It was like that with coaches Marco Rosa and Jesse Marsh, who also progressed further, and it's also happening now with coach Matthias Yaisel.
Salzburg's professional manager Christoph Freund, photo: Alan Shiver
The fact that Salzburg pursued and paid an amount of 7 million euros for Oskar Gloch indicates that it sees him as a potential to join the list that appears above.
He meets the age criteria (18), he is from the periphery of football (Israel) and he is endowed with offensive abilities that fit the philosophy of the club.
Gloch, yesterday in front of Haifa, photo: Alan Shiver
The fact that Gloch chose Salzburg makes it clear that he believes in this project and is ready to invest in one of the places that know how to cultivate footballers of his type in the best way.
According to Salzburg's resume, and especially according to its purchase and sale policy, the Israeli connection reached the best place for him.
A place that will give him the conditions to improve, to learn, to flourish, and above all to receive a platform, so that in a few years he can fly from there to the next destination.
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