Ex City Youth Players

SlimShadyRus said:
Do you understand that a coach's(es') decision(s) is not the thing to measure a player with? Otherwise Demichelis would've gone for 50m as "a starter for Man City in their trophey seasons"
Click to expand...
So what would you measure Lopes on? His looks? Bit tough to asses a players progress when he doesn't even get on the pitch. If he's not playing in Ligue 1, we're not going to be buying him back by the end of next season, so the price we've negotiated doesn't really matter.
 
pee dubya said:
So what would you measure Lopes on? His looks? Bit tough to asses a players progress when he doesn't even get on the pitch. If he's not playing in Ligue 1, we're not going to be buying him back by the end of next season, so the price we've negotiated doesn't really matter.
Click to expand...
I judge him by his performances for City and Lille. We wouldn't buy him back at the end of thsi seasonm but who knows what will happen in a year and a half. He can become outtanding so top-clubs would line up for our academy graduate again.
 
I was looking through the squads for Euro 2016 and I reckon there are five City academy graduates playing in the tournament: Glenn Whelan (RoI); Fredi Veseli (Albani); Robert Mak and Vladi Weiss (Slovakia): and John Guidetti (Sweden) - also Dedryck Boyata was in the Belgium squad till he got injured and Emyr Huws should have been in the Wales squad. That's pretty impressive and shows players they can have a high level career even if they don't make it at City.
 
BXLBlue said:
I was looking through the squads for Euro 2016 and I reckon there are five City academy graduates playing in the tournament: Glenn Whelan (RoI); Fredi Veseli (Albani); Robert Mak and Vladi Weiss (Slovakia): and John Guidetti (Sweden) - also Dedryck Boyata was in the Belgium squad till he got injured and Emyr Huws should have been in the Wales squad. That's pretty impressive and shows players they can have a high level career even if they don't make it at City.
Click to expand...
Sturridge, Hennessey, Neil Taylor (Wal) and Westwood (Irl) are going to Euro as well. Only the 1st and the last one are graduates, but since we're talking about our ex youth playes in general here, I think it's ok.
 
SlimShadyRus said:
Sturridge, Hennessey, Neil Taylor (Wal) and Westwood (Irl) are going to Euro as well. Only the 1st and the last one are graduates, but since we're talking about our ex youth playes in general here, I think it's ok.
Click to expand...
Thanks for filling out the list. Didn't realise Hennessey had been a trainee for us.
 
CitytillIdie74 said:
I just saw that Denis Suarez is heading back to Barca as they exercised their buy back clause
Click to expand...
Maybe: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/barcelona-...s-before-completing-denis-suarez-deal-1563968

Their buy back clause looks to be for less than they got for him the first time around. Something smells in this transfer as I still don't think he'll get near Barca's 1st team, he's supposedly insisting on playing time clauses and more money than they're offering so he appears to be wary of it too.

Not exactly prolific for Villareal either despite any plaudits he gets.
 
ColinLee said:
Maybe: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/barcelona-...s-before-completing-denis-suarez-deal-1563968

Their buy back clause looks to be for less than they got for him the first time around. Something smells in this transfer as I still don't think he'll get near Barca's 1st team, he's supposedly insisting on playing time clauses and more money than they're offering so he appears to be wary of it too.

Not exactly prolific for Villareal either despite any plaudits he gets.
Click to expand...
Spanish-based journo on Talksport Transfer Tavern (yes I know it's Talksport) said the same thing.
Barca want it and Villareal are being backed into a corner, but Suarez is wary because the fringe players like Turan and Vidal got very little playing time following the lifting of the transfer ban.
Basically there's a feeling Enrique has very little faith out side of his first 11.
 
MadchesterCity said:
Would love to see Westwood back at City
Click to expand...
This. SInce he's stuck in Championship he may consider being back at City, working with Pep and winning tophies... Although gametime is an attractive thing as well.

I usually buy him for City in FM 2013 and he's a perfect back-up keeper.

Anyway, we're not seeing any englishmen or academy graduates at the club during this spanish reign.
 
A couple of good articles in the press about the number of ex-Man City youth players in the Euros. I didn't realize how many there were. Also nice to hear from Jim Cassell. He did such a wonderful job at the club. I had no idea how broke the club was when he started! Talk about making something from nothing. Also good to see he still is a season ticket holder.
 
Last edited:
yankcitizen76 said:
A couple of good articles in the press about the number of ex-Man City youth players in the Euros. I didn't realize how many there were. Also nice to hear from Jim Cassell. He did such a wonderful job at the club. I had no idea how broke the club was when he started! Talk about making something from nothing. Also good to see he still is a season ticket holder.
Click to expand...
You're making that up, we don't have a youth system.

Edit: They're all copy & paste jobs from the MEN
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ws/euro-2016-manchester-city-academy-11461449
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ws/manchester-city-academy-euro-2016-11461512

Along with the obligatory first comment from an obsessed, bitter rag. Those salty tears...
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Saw Courtney Meppen-Walter play for Stockport at Brackley tonight. Wore the number 10 shirt playing at centre back which was quite upsetting from an OCD point of view, also got subbed at half time. He's put on a lot of weight...
 
Jacob Smith said:
Saw Courtney Meppen-Walter play for Stockport at Brackley tonight. Wore the number 10 shirt playing at centre back which was quite upsetting from an OCD point of view, also got subbed at half time. He's put on a lot of weight...
Click to expand...

He scored a fantastic lob a few weeks ago -

 
pavelsrnicek said:
Omar Elabdellaoui is about to join Hull on loan. If he's any good we should buy him back!
Click to expand...

By my count thats now 11 former Cit youth players in the Premier League :

Joey Barton - Burnley

Glenn Whelan - Stoke City

Kasper Schmeichel - Leicester City

Stephen Ireland - Stoke City

Adam Clayton - Middlesborough

Ben Mee - Burnley

Daniel Sturridge - Liverpool

Kieran Trippier - Tottenham

Loris Karius - Liverpool

Omar Elabdellaoui - Hull City

Neil Taylor - Swansea City

Can anyone think of any more?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top