Hugo Viana to be new Director of Football (Official Announcement p17)

[GaudinoMotors]

Asking a young player to play at 100% for a full season does not happen, Playing for City and being a first-team starter you have to be right at the top of your game every week, I think only Foden is now a nailed starter and that has taken 5 seasons of him being in and out, Having 4 or 5 youth players in the team is a wonderful for the fans to watch , But its not good for both player and club if you are at the top table,

How many of the class of 92 played into their late 30s at the top ? even Rooney was finished at 28ish because he had to play every week, At City they can be looked after by Pep and will have a longer career

28 and a glittering career will do for me.
Too much cotton wool can be as bad as too much game time and can cause inconsistency and slow development.

 

[ancoats]

28 and a glittering career will do for me.
Too much cotton wool can be as bad as too much game time and can cause inconsistency and slow development.

I remember being 28 was your peak but that was when footballers were just that, Now it's a whole different ball game and the longer you can stay in the game at the top levels the more you can win and earn big money, The young players that are in football for the love of it understand, But greedy young footballers want it all right now.

How many Young players are winning titles at the big clubs ? It takes a young player like a Messi or Ronaldo to demand he plays every week at clubs like City and under a manager like Pep

I have never seen a young player play every week at a top team that wants to win the title for a such long time
City now demands players give 100% every week, Nobody can hide in City's starting 11 and keep his place all season

Cole Palmer is a very good young talent, But goes missing in about 1 in 4 games, the bigger games demand your very best and Palmer is not there yet, I think because he takes the pen's stands him out in the media as it goes down as a goal and it fools a lot of people that he's on fire most weeks

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Asking a young player to play at 100% for a full season does not happen, Playing for City and being a first-team starter you have to be right at the top of your game every week, I think only Foden is now a nailed starter and that has taken 5 seasons of him being in and out, Having 4 or 5 youth players in the team is a wonderful for the fans to watch , But its not good for both player and club if you are at the top table,

How many of the class of 92 played into their late 30s at the top ? even Rooney was finished at 28ish because he had to play every week, At City they can be looked after by Pep and will have a longer career

Rooney wasn’t one of the crass of ‘92. He was finished early because he was a fat, drunken pisshead.

 

[Blueboy73]

Rooney wasn’t one of the crass of ‘92. He was finished early because he was a fat, drunken, granny shagging pisshead.

Edited for accuracy.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Certainly more accurate than my description

 

[Centurions]

We could have bought him via buy back for £20m after 24 months.
Any time before that was the market value which I think ended up at £40m from Chelsea
My understanding is that the other players we sold to Southampton at that time ( Bazunu, Larios, Edozie) had the buyback activating at 12 months.

Given how things panned out I can't say we've done badly with Lavia. Obviously he may not have been injured if he'd stayed and missed all of last season but he's only started 5 PL games this season and is usually hooked after around the hour mark. Presumably they're being cautious as he's still only 20 but we wouldn't have been relying on him this season as it stands regardless.