JoeMercer'sWay said:
Matty said:
Not strictly true.
Lets say those 5 home grown players actually equates to 4 club trained and 1 association trained.
Now, name you're squad, remembering that we can only include 1 out of Hart, Clichy, Milner, Wright and Rodwell in the "5 home grown players" quota as they are all association trained and not club trained.
Until we know the exact split of the "5 home grown players" we can't really assess the impact it has on us.
it's irrelevant, as the club will know the requirements and will therefore be doing our business appropriately.
It's really a non-issue to us fans.
It most certainly isn't irrelevant.
Lets assume the worse case scenario, that the 5 home grown players is made up of 4 club trained and 1 association trained. Lets say we name Joe Hart as our 1 allowable association trained player. Lets say we name Richards, Boyata, Lopes and Johansen (to fulfill the requirement for at least 2 keepers in the squad) as our allowable club trained players.
That leaves us with 16 spots left to fill.
1 - Kompany
2 - Zabaleta
3 - Kolarov
4 - Demichelis
5 - Fernandinho
6 - Garcia
7 - Toure
8 - Nasri
9 - Silva
10 - Navas
11 - Aguero
12 - Negredo
13 - Dzeko
14 - Jovetic
15 - Milner
16 - Clichy
That's you lot, all out current squad included, with no space whatsoever.
Now, if we make some new signings, which is inevitable, where do they go? Who misses out on the European squad? Lets say Sagna, Fernando and Benatia all join. That's 3 players with zero spots available. Who are the 3 who miss out?
In the better scenario for City, which is what everyone else is assuming (5 home grown, of which only 1 needs to be club trained) we'd be able to include Clichy and Milner in the home grown list (excluding Lopes and Boyata) and add 2 of those 3 new signings to the european squad without anyone else missing out. That would leave just 1 player missing out, and there's always the possibility that 1 of our current crop of foreign stars leaves the club this summer to make that a none issue.
