PL to investigate City's academy transfers

Every transfer between cat 1 clubs goes through an investigation process iirc. Perhaps the Independent could point out how many of those other cat 1 clubs have faced the same investigation.
 
They are just getting the innuendo in early.

As we continue to sweep all before us at youth level, as we prepare for yet another youth final, this article comes out.

As we are close to bringing 2 or 3 lads through into the first team, this will get worse. The clear insinuation being that "he came from City's tainted youth system".

Every expert in the football world has been telling us for 20 years that 'the class of 92' was unique. A never to be repeated example of how 'a proper football club does it'. As there is now a strong likelihood this will be not just repeated but superseded the narrative has to be started that we have somehow cheated or acted improperly.

There is a very clear reason the great British media have it in for city.
Great post, sums up exactly how City are viewed and manhandled by the English media. There is every chance what you predict will come to fruition with our academy and the class of 92 will fade year by year
 
That Indy article is written by a blue

Yes, when he was still reading English at Oxford, Jack used to publish a blog entitled The Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll, which was the best City blog of the time. The last update was just over 6 years ago: http://tldorc.blogspot.ru/ - presumably finals and then his new career intervened after that.

To be fair, the headline and sub-heading (which won't be his work) make much more of a point of the investigation than the article does. He doesn't give it much emphasis at all, IMO.
 
We haven't been charged with anything, it's just normal diligence on youth transfers.

This seems to be the oddest thing that it's even been mentioned as an investigation.

Sign player => review that proper procedures have been followed.

If it's automatically triggered, and there is no fault found, then it's not even news.
 
They are just getting the innuendo in early.

As we continue to sweep all before us at youth level, as we prepare for yet another youth final, this article comes out.

As we are close to bringing 2 or 3 lads through into the first team, this will get worse. The clear insinuation being that "he came from City's tainted youth system".

Every expert in the football world has been telling us for 20 years that 'the class of 92' was unique. A never to be repeated example of how 'a proper football club does it'. As there is now a strong likelihood this will be not just repeated but superseded the narrative has to be started that we have somehow cheated or acted improperly.

There is a very clear reason the great British media have it in for city.

Yep they are setting the Narrative now if in a few years we will have 3 to 4 academy players playing 1st team football and looking world class! Itll be yeah great players but got them dodgy going on.
 
This seems to be the oddest thing that it's even been mentioned as an investigation.

Sign player => review that proper procedures have been followed.

If it's automatically triggered, and there is no fault found, then it's not even news.
"Man pays for £15 shopping with £20 note, gets £5 change!"
 
It doesn't take a genius to figure out this was someone at the dippers trying to point attention away from their own tapping up case of last week.
 
Yes, when he was still reading English at Oxford, Jack used to publish a blog entitled The Lonesome Death of Roy Carroll, which was the best City blog of the time. The last update was just over 6 years ago: http://tldorc.blogspot.ru/ - presumably finals and then his new career intervened after that.

To be fair, the headline and sub-heading (which won't be his work) make much more of a point of the investigation than the article does. He doesn't give it much emphasis at all, IMO.

I remember reading that blog.

Best City content around from memory. Good to hear he's been able to make a career out it!
 

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