No mate,the rags are shit,meaning,their academy players are good enough to get in.No i don't expect overnight success but the academy (like i say) has been open going on 8 years! The rags have had success by successfully integrating youth into the first team and there's no excuses not to give our best kids a chance IMO.
I'll treat that with the contempt it deserves pal. Sheikh Mansour built the academy to produce youngsters for our benefit, not other clubs!I’m not sure you understand what an academy is all about in modern football. Foden is a shining example however the concept is more of a business model now. Its a stream of income selling youth on. Taking a young player on and developing him into a talented prospect to them sell on for millions is a fabulous business model at little cost. City do this perfectly, yes we may have a Phil Foden come along once every 10 years however the concept is far greater. If you thought we’d have a team full of academy player by now then you’d be sadly mistaken.
No i don't expect overnight success but the academy (like i say) has been open going on 8 years! The rags have had success by successfully integrating youth into the first team and there's no excuses not to give our best kids a chance IMO.
No i don't expect overnight success but the academy (like i say) has been open going on 8 years! The rags have had success by successfully integrating youth into the first team and there's no excuses not to give our best kids a chance IMO.
Interesting we have switched to this topic the Athletic have an article out at thus moment on the subject
Hinestly though I could live with a season finishing say 3rd and trophyless if the year after we won the league and got to cup finals with a team that had 4-5 home grown and preferably mancunian players in it.
Exactly....that McTomm lad would never see a first team shirt here, not on his peg anyway.No mate,the rags are shit,meaning,their academy players are good enough to get in.
Would any of the rags academy players broke into our first team,I doubt it.
I can only imagine being in City's academy is probably the toughest one to be in.Most will know they will not get first team football.
But,they will be developed enough to make it elsewhere,imo.
Delap, Doyle, Palmer, Harwood-Bellis and Bernabé all started games for us last season. Relax.
I'll treat that with the contempt it deserves pal. Sheikh Mansour built the academy to produce youngsters for our benefit, not other clubs!
Unless I’m mistaken the only academy players who have started a league game for us in the past 7 years are Foden and Garcia. Is that the absolute maximum we could have expected given how much money we’ve spent on the academy? And in that time plenty of shit players have been given chances - Nolito, Fernando, Kolarov, Sagna, Rodwell, Delph (as a midfielder), Navas (in his last couple of seasons), Bravo, Bony etc. Heaven forbid we give an incredibly talented academy player a chance though.