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I don't agree. Why would clubs loan young players if it scuppered the HG status. Loads of examples of City signing 17/18 year olds and then sending them on loan. If that loan didn't count they would not get 36 months.
I agree it is murky as hell but if that time didn't count they wouldn't do it. Loans must count. Surely.
Would be best you name one of those 'loads of examples' and I could directly comment on that individual case.
City's loan players nowadays are either already HG when they go out on loan (Manu Garcia, Roberts, Harrison, Smith, Barker, Tosin)
or they have joind City too late to become HG anyway (Arzani, Palaversa, Itakura, Douglas Luiz).
An old case would be Alex Garcia who went to Girona instead of becoming HG for City, for game time reasons IIRC.
None of our suberb prospects went directly on loan (Garcia, Gomes, Bernabe, Muric) maybe for the reason to become club-trained HG first
before going out on loan to get minutes and develop as a personality.
Or being integrated in our senior squad. Or leave like Diaz and Sancho. Such is life.