City Academy improving the game for everybody

[ancoats]

The standards and levels in our youth academy are amazing but it's for the good of Manchester City and not football in general, It's now starting to produce fruit and we get the first dibs on the best of the bunch,

The downside to this is some of the youth players are being used by their agents and pimped out when they are told they are good enough for a starting place only to throw a paddy and demand a move when the best manager in world football does not agree,

Yes it now makes Manchester City a lot of money and we have learnt to slap clauses on the ones that leave, Sell on fees and buyback clauses are now mandatory

 

[Norman kneejerk]

Just goes to show you never quite know who will kick on so worth trying to keep some retention til you know better at 21 or 22.
Most of them are fairly predictable, Delap maybe a slight surprise, must admit for the life of me didn't think Rogers would get to where he has, not that he couldn't play but just never seemed to get involved much when I saw him. So I suppose the moral of the story is don't jump in with both feet abd let them develop.

 

[Gordyola]

Ben Mee & Kieran Triper

 

[bluesmith]

Brooks, Forbs, Hodge, Whittingham, Moulden and Slicker are with Premier league clubs but only Forbs getting game time

 

[Cobra]

Not PL obviously, but Felix Nmecha scored for Dortmund at the weekend, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru scored for Lazio in the Europa League last week and Tom Dele-Bashiru scored the winner for Watford at the weekend.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Just goes to show you never quite know who will kick on so worth trying to keep some retention til you know better at 21 or 22.
Most of them are fairly predictable, Delap maybe a slight surprise, must admit for the life of me didn't think Rogers would get to where he has, not that he couldn't play but just never seemed to get involved much when I saw him. So I suppose the moral of the story is don't jump in with both feet abd let them develop.

I thought Lavia would be brilliant and he could still do that. He has had some terrible injuries though.

 

[Norman kneejerk]

I thought Lavia would be brilliant and he could still do that. He has had some terrible injuries though.

Yes he's gone the other way so far at least

 

[freshie]

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

I am scratching my head and rubbing my chin thinking that if this was the rags or dippers then there would be wall to wall noise about this and documentaries coming out of Sky’s arse

 

[Vienna_70]

Was the Robert Mak, who came on for Slovan last night the one, who was in the FA Youth Cup winning squad in 2008.

EDIT. I’ve just had a look on Wikipedia, and it was.