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The way I see it we have 3 options for cover/medium-term replacement for Ferna: 1) Sign someone from another Premier League club. 2) Sign someone from another European club. 3) Promote from within. If we start with option 1, I can see 4 players that could be under consideration. Each of them...

Will Pep factor potential suspensions into his selection? Gundo and Ferna both one yellow away from a ban - would be silly to risk missing the QF in a tie that's in the bag. Looks like Fernandinho is not fit enough yet anyway, but it might be wise to keep Ilkay on the bench. I'd play Delph and...

I think he is still officially our player, just hasn't played a game all season (except internationals). He turns 17 in June so he can sign for whoever he likes then. Bit weird that he has basically written off a year of his career just to force a move, if that is indeed the case.

I agree that since we got good, not many young players have been given a chance (until this season). Don't think that is why Duncan is leaving though - he's a dyed in the wool Liverpudlian, but Liverpool's set up to age 16 is not as good as ours. Was always a bit surprising that Gerrard's cousin...

It's the 20th according to the UYL page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_UEFA_Youth_League#Knockout_phase Next round will be tasty if we get through!

Our top 5 loaned out players of 2016/17 (a subjective view, not including any of the ex-first team players we couldn't sell i.e. Nasri, Bony etc): 1. Enes Unal 2. Patrick Roberts 3. Aaron Mooy (not EDS, I know) 4. Manu Garcia 5. James Horsfield (who would have thought two years ago he would look...

NAC are in the playoffs, so could still get promoted to the Eredivisie. I agree Ambrose is better than the Dutch second tier.

Thanks. Bit of a shame. Wonder why Chelsea think they can handle it though?

I can't create posts, but wanted to know what people think about the decision not to enter the EFL Trophy? For me it makes no sense - we complain that young players don't get enough man football and then when there is an opportunity to do that as a team we turn it down. I don't get it.

Yeah, he looked a major talent before his injury but others are coming through stronger and faster from the younger age groups. He's a German speaker so he should acclimatise quickly to the Bundesliga. Eintracht only just avoided relegation, so he should be able to break into the team without...

Thanks for filling out the list. Didn't realise Hennessey had been a trainee for us.

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...

Yeah, probably a quote from years ago. And so what? Too many flappers out there...

NAC lost the playoff to Willem II - unfortunately they will be staying in the second tier. No chance they would get a Byrne or Celina next season now, but some of the lads who haven't got any experience of man football would still benefit from a season in the Eerste Divisie. Hopefully a...

Messi played regularly for Barcelona B at the equivalent age to Brahim next season (2004/5 season); he only had 77 minutes for the first team that seasom (all as a sub). It was after he turned 18 that he became a first-team regular. Makes sense to ease Brahim in too. I remember watching Patrick...