How would City cope with a transfer ban?

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WallyA

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If for some reason City cannot buy any players, just wanted to compile a list of potential players in various positions we could build up.

Center Backs: Eric Garcia, Harwood-Bellis

Fullbacks: Frimpong <--- admittedly not super knowledgeable on the quality of fullbacks in our academy/loanees
**If we have a transfer ban then Angelino could not be bought back (this is my preference even if we didn't have the ban)

Defensive Midfield: Aleix Garcia, Douglas Luiz, Matt Smith, Tommy Doyle

Attacking Midfield: Manu Garcia, Felix Nmecha, Taylor Richards, Lewis Fiorini, Ben Knight

Wingers: Patrick Roberts, Brandon Barker, Ian Carlo Poveda, Adrian Bernabe, Jayden Braaf

Strikers: Lukas Nmecha, Lorenzo Gonzalez, Nabil Touaizi

Not very familiar with U16 players, but I I've heard of some very promising players from that generation, these players are from loanees, U21 and U18 squads.

Any players you would replace with who I have? Are other academy players more highly rated than ones I have picked? very curious on thoughts. Mainly wanted to list players that I have heard alot about/seen most of, for people on these forums who aren't familiar with these names.

Also was curious if we could truly cope with a ban and if we could rely on some of these players for the future; personally believe a players potential is non-linear, and that some loanees that players have forgotten about like Barker or Roberts could explode when they get over injury problems and play regularly on loan, sometimes things can click for these players.
 
We have enough already, without even thinking about which Academy players might step up!

BTW, didn’t see Sandler mentioned.
 
I assume we'd just keep the squad we have now and not sell any players. Hard to see many of those you mention being ready to take on any significant role in the first team squad at the present time. Either too young or not good enough.
 
We can still loan players right ??

Bring back Douglas or A. Garcia or get Girona to buy a couple of players and loan them to us. They probably can’t spend as much but we could return the favor.
 
A transfer ban could lead to City actually prioritising cup competitions.

We may see for instance a younger side in the carabou cup next season, perhaps even the FA Cup
 
There is also Jack Harrison who we have on loan at Dirty Dirty Leeds who looked great pre season and Yangel Herrera at Huesca.
 
Are we getting a 5 year ban then, because otherwise the thread makes no sense?

I actually thought we'd sold Manu Garcia & Brandon Barker both, good news in Garcia's case, Barker sadly will never be good enough for us. Neither will Patrick Roberts, just doesn't have the pace or (seemingly) the desire to make it at our club.
 
If for arguments sake we had an enduring ban on transfer then we would get to really test the ability of the academy to produce players able to step up.

What I think would happen is that we are pretty good at churning out technically good attacking midfielders & wingers and the odd CM but they tend to be box to box types and not the sort of defensive minded tackling machines that teams need. In defense we do ok for CBs but havent turned out that many right or left backs over the years. And we haven't had a decent striker come through the academy as for maybe 20 years (I'm counting Nacho as a transfer).

Genuine question - who was the last city academy striker to score more than 10 goals in a season? Was it David White?
 
IF a ban comes down, it definitely depends on the scope of the ban. For Barcelona several years ago, they were banned from registering new players - so it made even promoting a youth player not possible as they would have had to be registered with the federation.

So, I think it's probably far too early to speculate on how to mitigate any potential ban when the details of what it covers isn't clear
 
fathellensbellend said:
i would refuse to release our players for international friendlies, if our squad cannot be added to, no way can we risk injuries in nothing games.
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Just say they’ve got a bad back - can’t be disproved. LFC already deploying this tactic With a range of mysterious ailments that all clear up by next weekend!
 
It’s only likely to be a 12 month ban, so all these academy players will be totally unaffected by it. The players that will help us are Ederson, Bravo, Muric, Zinchenko, Mendy, Laporte, Stones, Otamendi, Kompany, Danilo, Walker, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Silva, Bernardo, KDB, Foden, Sané, Sterling, Mahrez, Aguero, Jesus. Plus one or two others depending on where we get an injury crisis. Could well be Garcia/Sandler considering our centre back injury history.
 
ChicagoBlue said:
We have enough already, without even thinking about which Academy players might step up!

BTW, didn’t see Sandler mentioned.
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apparently he's all booked up for the next few years on wedding gigs.


* here we go again*
 
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