On the face of it you'd say it makes sense, however, for Champion's League purposes it isn't 17 foreign plus 8 homegrown, it's 17 foreign plus 8 homegrown, or which a minimum of 4 must be club grown. We've already got Hart, Clichy (and Sterling it would seem) who are homegrown, but not club grown. As we were after Delph too then we clearly didn't see a homegrown keeper as a target. We'll likely sign another homegrown outfield player before the window closes. Where we need to address the squad is the 4 club grown players category. People talk about Lopes and Denayer filling those roles, however at this stage neither actually needs to be included in the squad as Lopes is 19, and Denayer just 20, so they can be included on top of the 25 man squad. As time passes, and the Academy starts to produce more players it'll become less and less of a problem. In fact, there's probably very little we can do in the short term. There's not really anyone out there, who would class as club trained, and be good enough to be part of City's squad. Schmeichel would be an interesting backup keeper option, but he'd not come here to be a backup to Hart, again, plus he seems to have fairly negative things to say about City. Trippier would have been a possibility, but he's at Spurs now.
