Yeah I still see the Dortmund move as football related though, given their record with youngsters and their wage structure.Thing is there's no incentive for the agent in a player coming through the club ranks and then staying with said club for ten years or more.
Much more money to be made, as @SWP's back alludes to, if the agent moves their chattels every little while.
So it's easy to see how an impressionable young man can be swayed, especially by someone incentivised by their love of becoming rich.
He's not even doing that, I follow another team that play in their league, and he hasn't played for Dortmund II since September as fas I can see, so not currently on the bench for the first team (not even in the German cup midweek), and not in the second team, so I'd say so far its been a wasted 6 months, and as you say he's missed out on a WC medal because of said club, and the other plaudits that came with it, and for all that he's played about 45 minutes for the first team from memory, somewhat less than Foden and Diaz, he could of course be injured, but my knowledge of Dortmund II isn't that wide.So far that’s proving to be rather wrong. He’s missed out on a World Cup victory and being part of a squad 11 points clear, top of their CL group and a semi final of the league cup and is now at a club where the manager that signed him has been sacked and he’s back playing for the youth team.
Wow, that is some bitterness right there, he is a young boy who made a career decision, he didn't break the law, get a grip of yourself.
I’m not bitter. But he didn’t exactly do anything to endear him to me as a Manchester city fan. And I’m allowed to wonder if he’s regretting leaving this team at this time. It’s not like I’m a Liverpool fan booing Raheem Sterling for daring to want to win something.
For anyone wondering why he hasn't been playing at all for Dortmund, I remember reading somewhere he has picked up an injury and has been out for over the past month. It makes sense, I couldn't understand why he wasn't even on the bench in many of the past games.
Regarding youth leaving, it will happen, Pep is doing a much better job this season than last (obviously it was his first year) and with the stability around the club I imagine next year we will see youth play more and more, excited to see Nmecha, Diaz and Foden more and more.
One thing people should realize is that there are more and more great youth players popping up everywhere (not just City) due to populations growth, but we have the same amount of clubs, every club will find it difficult to hold on to youth. City have to try to their best to give the cream of the crop chances here and there, but many have to leave to play and kick start their careers, there is no room for great prospects at City, you have to be a phenomenal prospect.
He is a young player who needed to judge where he would get the most experience to bring him on. He on his own or more likely family and agent influenced got it wrong. He has moved on but hopefully his contemporaries at City will learn from his mistake.