OccupiedPalestineBlues
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There isn't much point attracting them if they fuck off at the first chance they get. If a player(Garcia) has made his intentions clear then why should City basically develop him for another team?
If Barca want him and he wants to go, they can pony up. It is not for City to work on Garcia's/Barcelona's time table
As for Tosin, he might want to leave as well which would be very dissapointing. If our academy can't find a young centre-back who is willing to be 4th choice then we might as well forget about the idea and just use it as it's own profit centre. Which, it probably is anyway but with Tosin being local, I'd like to have thought we could sell him the idea of being reserve for a year and seeing how it goes
Every player we every sign is signed to a contract that has an end date. They will all leave in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 years if us and them don't choose to renew. What do you recon, should we bang them into the EDS or make them train on their own if they've got only 2 or 3 years left and haven't brought a biro with them to sign again?
We make money on the academy players by selling them or by them leaving and us receiving a development fee.
The players who make the 1st team squad play for us, provide back up for those playing or both. We have a use for them in this season regardless of whether they play the next or the one after.
What we provide, as a business, is competitive football entertainment and the first team squad is the resource we call upon. Why should act adverse to our own needs by marginalising a valuable resource? Why would we act like the very worst of employers by being silly buggers trying to cheat our way out of our contracted commitments to those players?
How would you feel if say Aguero (or any other player), in his last year of contract suddenly downed tools because we wouldn't give him a further extension into the following season? Because that would be the equivalent of a player doing to us what you think we should do to Garcia et al, and it stinks, obviously.
What you'd expect would be for the player to act professionally and honour their commitments for the full tenure of the contract, and visa versa applies. So we should remain honourable by keeping our part of the bargain
What you're banging on about is wanting our football club to dishonour itself but that's just you trying to visit your standards on our club and you're wasting you time because they won't stoop that low.