James McAtee

He is a talent and one of the 'could make it' crew along with Palmer, Lavia, Delap and Doyle. Of course, there are more who aren't quite as far down the development route like Borges and Callum Doyle. Someone recently posted that we can get too emotional about the academy but loving a club is an emotional ride, or should be.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Yeah as @Josh_D said earlier, he has that quality Pep refers to as ‘Pausa’ and like David he always seems to find space and time on the ball so he is different in that respect
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You echoed my thoughts perfectly mate. He always find space. Add that to the ‘knows how to ride challenges’ trait and deft touches.

I know people speak highly of some young midfielders out there but we could have something special in McAtee. I only hope he can show his qualities to Pep and gets a chance with the first team or at least a chance to play somewhere that can help out his game.
 
Nah he good player but won’t make peps team, might make a few appearances in cup games etc but won’t break through like Phil has.
 
Josh_D said:
You echoed my thoughts perfectly mate. He always find space. Add that to the ‘knows how to ride challenges’ trait and deft touches.

I know people speak highly of some young midfielders out there but we could have something special in McAtee. I only hope he can show his qualities to Pep and gets a chance with the first team or at least a chance to play somewhere that can help out his game.
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Agree 100% mate, he’s a proper what we old farts used to refer to as a ‘schemer’. He is every bit as talented as someone like Gilmour at Chelsea - who is much more hyped - and indeed probably better, given the chance. A bit of physical development wouldn’t do him any harm.
 
oldius said:
He is a talent and one of the 'could make it' crew along with Palmer, Lavia, Delap and Doyle. Of course, there are more who aren't quite as far down the development route like Borges and Callum Doyle. Someone recently posted that we can get too emotional about the academy but loving a club is an emotional ride, or should be.
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Quite right at the emotional bit. With the academy, I’m quite pragmatic. Only when I go to sleep or dream do I start fantasising about 6/7 players making up the first team in the future.

A guy can dream eh :)
 
LongsightM13 said:
Agree 100% mate, he’s a proper what we old farts used to refer to as a ‘schemer’. He is every bit as talented as someone like Gilmour at Chelsea - who is much more hyped - and indeed probably better, given the chance. A bit of physical development wouldn’t do him any harm.
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Quite right there.

In some ways, I’m glad there’s no ‘proper noise’ about the outstanding lads in the academy. We know they spoke about Delap and such after a good campaign at that level but it’s all somewhat low-key.

I don’t have social media so I may be wrong but at least they can go about things without being under a lense or massive pressure.

I’m not sure many would’ve been able to handle the calls to go out on loan thrown in Foden’s direction or that he was wasting his talent...

These same bastards...ehem I meant these ‘pundits’ will be the ones who will act like they were always on your side.

So if a couple of these lads make it here in a couple of years without the noise, that’ll be great.
 
Not noticed the likes of McAtee, Doyle, Palmer, Delap or Mbete in any of the recent training videos or picture galleries. Is it because they were part of the EDS/Academy group which are now having to isolate due to positive tests. But then this does not make any sense. Why would they be part of that group & not with the first team as the first team are short of numbers due to most of them having extended breaks after the euros. Looking at the recent pictures it looks like the only ones training are Mahrez, Fernandihno, Carson, Mendy, Sandler, Shea Charles & Ben Knight.
 
Shaelumstash said:
There was an article in The Times a few years ago about City’s youth academy, pretty sure it made their back page.

It mentioned a prospect who was being talked about as an English Messi and arguably the brightest prospect ever to come out of Manchester. I’m sure it said we had a couple of his brothers on the books too.

Can anyone remember the article and know who it was referring to? Was it Foden? Or was it someone else? Cheers.
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It was James McAtee.

Looks some player!
 
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Can we leave the hype to those hype merchant cunts at the shit tip please.
 
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