City are set to promote Denayer, Lopes, and Iheanacho

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Telegraph: City are set to promote Jason Denayer (19), Marcos Lopes (19) and Kelechi Iheanacho (18) to the first-team squad next season.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...moting-a-Belgian-Portuguese-and-Nigerian.html

Manuel Pellegrini is ready to promote Manchester City’s brightest young players to the club’s first-team squad next season, even if top targets Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Paul Pogba are brought to the Etihad Stadium.

With James Milner choosing to reject a new contract at City in order to complete a free transfer to Liverpool, Pellegrini is now faced with replacing three ‘home-grown’ players in his squad following Frank Lampard’s move to New York City and the departure of Belgian defender Dedryck Boyata – a product of City’s youth system – to Celtic.

Premier League clubs can name no more than 17 foreign players over the age of 21 in their squads and the exits of Milner, Lampard and Boyata have left City with only three senior home-grown players in goalkeepers Joe Hart and Richard Wright and French full-back Gaël Clichy, who is classed as such after spending three years of at Arsenal prior to the age of 21.

But while City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan will back Pellegrini with a significant transfer fund this summer, the City manager has already identified teenagers Jason Denayer and Marcos Lopes, both 19, as first-team players for next season.

Denayer, a Belgian centre-half, was named Scotland’s PFA Young Player of the Year this year following the youngster’s impressive campaign on loan at Celtic.

And attacking midfielder Lopes, a Portuguese born in Brazil, will also be promoted to the senior squad next season after returning from a season-long with Lille in France.

Pellegrini is understood to also be considering elevating the 18-year-old Nigerian forward Kelechi Iheanacho to the first-team and is likely to monitor the youngster’s progress during the club’s pre-season tour of Australia and Indonesia.

None of Lopes, Denayer or Iheanacho would be classed as foreign players should they be named in Pellegrini’s Premier League squad due to all three being under the age of 21.
 
I'm all for this happening but why would pellegrini phone the telegraph to tell them which youngsters are playing for us next season? Just an educated guess from the writer based on who are our brightest prospects in my opinion
 
Its one thing including them, but if they don't get game time then its pointless. All three have potential and we would be stupid to hinder that by not playing them often enough. Its time to be brave and give them a chance and not just in cup games.
 
I was waiting for this thread already after seeing LoveCity's tweet. :)

How reliable could this news be though? Isn't it just a journo guesswork? I so wish that this is true, I don't want to feel even more upset if this evolves into just newspaper bullshit.
 
IanBishopsHaircut said:
Fuck me..are some people never happy?!
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Its true though, youngsters are included every year yet one might get a chance in the very first cup game of the season. These 3 can be very good but not by sitting on the bench. Either they will get a fair chance or they are only included because of the HG status to fill the numbers which isn't right.
 
BoyBlue_1985 said:
This is great news but what about Ambrose whwnever I watch the eds games he look a world above the game
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Ambrose is only 17 or 18. I haven't seen much of him, but I'm sure those at the top will know whether he's ready for the first-team squad and at that age, unless you're a really exceptional talent, like Iheanacho, you're not ready for the rough and tumble of the Premier League.

As for Roni, Jason and Nacho, it's great news, if it's true. I've seen Denayer a few times for Celtic in the Europa League and he looks quality. Some have suggested that he could play defensive midfield, but wherever MP decides to use him, I'm sure he will give a good account of himself.

Lopes' season at Lille was interrupted by injury, but he is certainly a talented lad and Nacho is an exceptional young man.

If this is true, it will be the first fruits of our investment in the Academy and that can only be a good thing.
 
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