Then it's our fault if we lose a potential windfall or a top player in tbe future.He's not going to get that chance next season so that's not going to happen imo
So moving forward there will be stars coming in but not at the rate of the recent past - this will give youngsters a big chance so the ball is in their courts. If they are good enough they will be brought into the team.
Brahim plays across the front 3.
We've currently got..Sané 22, Jesus 21, Sterling 23, Bernardo 23, Aguero 30 and Riyad Mahrez 27 competing for game time.
There aren't going to be any opportunities for Brahim any time soon, and everyone knows it. We as fans all know it, Brahim knows it, the club know it.
He is right to seek a move away, obviously I'd hope it's a loan, but a permanent deal makes more sense for him because it's not like he's going to come back in 12 months and there will be an opening.
What should happen is that he should get a shot at it. If we do that & he is nowhere near it, he can try elsewhere. If he's good, play him more often.
If that means a senior player ends up leaving then fine. We have a replacement.
Both he & Foden might quickly go up a level with more game time. If we can't find them any, we have too many senior players.
Which senior player gets benched for Brahim?
Which player gets sold for him? No 18 year old is as good as a 60m former POTY signing, that's part of the problem, we've created an environment where just to get a chance, young players are expected to deliver at a level no young players in the world can play at.
People need to calm down a bit - Last summer we had no choice but to recruit heavily due to the age and lack of desire in the first team squad, at the same time it was just too early for Brahim and Foden to be thrown into a newly constructed Pep side. Interesting that this off season we have so far bought just one player in, there maybe one perhaps two tops coming in and that will be that. Consider the season we've just had after the change of personnel - would anyone who is a fan not wish for a season like last year. It had to happen. So moving forward there will be stars coming in but not at the rate of the recent past - this will give youngsters a big chance so the ball is in their courts. If they are good enough they will be brought into the team.
I find it kind of ironic that those complaining that we don't use our academy well are the same that fret when we don't make a ruck of big signings! The club has set it's stall out and it is no good just buying players for the sake of it. Utd have done this for three or four years now and look at their recent progress. Brahim and Phil Foden have the opportunity to take this chance and if they feel it is better to move on so be it - In my humble opinion it would be madness to move now without really considering the bigger picture. We are not privy to the day to day training conversations but we have to trust Pep to continue building us into an unstoppable force. One, which utilises it's academy. Just have a little more patience.
And the best manager of the past decade doesn't deem him ready nor at those players level.By the time Xavi was Brahim's age he was in the middle of a season in which he'd play 26 games for Barcelona, most of which were starts. By the beginning of the next season he was promoted by Van Gaal to replace injured Guardiola as Barcelona's main central midfielder and play 38 games.
Your comparison isn't just a ridiculous one, it's wrong.
Perhaps, a week away from his 19th birthday, Brahim looks around the changing room and sees
Raheem Sterling - was already in Liverpool's team and was about to be central to their 13/14 title challenge.
Leroy Sané - Already a full german international and starter for Schalke by 19 and being chased by multiple big clubs around Europe.
Jesus - Brazil's number 9 at 19. Just about to win Olympic gold and sign for City.
Or perhaps most tellingly...Bernardo Silva, who forced a move away from Benfica at 19 because he wasn't getting chances, and hasn't looked back since.
And the best manager of the past decade doesn't deem him ready nor at those players level.
Telling.
Then it's our fault if we lose a potential windfall or a top player in tbe future.
If Zinchenko hadn't been pressed into playing fullback, he'd now be leaving for fuck all.
Because he played, he has much more value both as a squad player & a potential sale.
If we don't at least make an effort to get a City player out of Diaz then our system is a fucking joke imo. Far too many excuses.
He only played because of injuries and I can only assume City managers feel under so much pressure for results week in week out that they aren't prepared to gamble on youngster unless the situation is dire.
Yes, they have bottled out of using younger players & been given fortunes to spend wheras some managers have had no choice.
So last season we are forced into using a relatively young player, out of position, & he does a job & goes up in value, just as about 20 others could have done in the last 6-7 years imo, with nothing but squad benefit, money & good reputation being gained from doing it.
It doesn't matter if they are then sold, it matters that they got a shot at it.
It's time to start now, the best players are reaching the right age & physique.
Already people moaning it's "another Sancho".. let's get this right, Pep and the club showed faith by offering him a contract. Not loaning him out, not selling him with buy-back. A proper contract that was reward for his progression and with a view of bringing him on. When he refused, he was left out of the US tour as his commitment isn't reciprocated and we all know he went AWOL afterwards. His skill was never in question. His temperament is. He's flash, cocky, and very confident, which he's allowed to be and I know that side of the game grates a lot of people... but indiscipline isn't acceptable.
So now we turn to Diaz, another youngster that is above his peers at youth level, but looks like a fish out of water (at the moment). We've seen it many times before. Garcia, Lopez, Suarez.. the players quickly ship out and go on to make a decent career elsewhere. Personally I see the skill, but don't see exceptional talent with vision, movement etc. I see a great dribbler who's not strong enough.
Very few 19 year olds are strong enough. If we’re gonna write a player like Diaz off this early on, then we might as well burn the Academy down
Very few 19 year olds are strong enough. If we’re gonna write a player like Diaz off this early on, then we might as well burn the Academy down. It’ll just be another stick with which to beat us
No reason why diaz cant be the back up to sane and be a starter in the league cup and against lower placed teams. we just lack faith in all our youngsters if mbappe was in our academy we would've been in a similar situation.