Only time allows this. Unless you buy almost the finished article I.e Nacho, your going to have at least a 5/8 year wait for these players coming through ready to play at the level we require. It's starting to happen now and I believe in the next 3/5 years we will have plenty come through. Ok not all of them might be in city blue but we'll make money and have one or two stars of our own.City's academy gets non-stop praise. The criticism is that so few players make the transition into the first team.
City's academy gets non-stop praise. The criticism is that so few players make the transition into the first team.
A very good post sir.Its still my belief and has been since day one of Peps reign,that he will be here for longer than his three year contract and I would be surprised if he wasn`t at our Club to oversee its productivity for an extra 2/3 years on top.I read the article and it convince me of what in my mind. Pep is here to develop style of play from top to bottom the U-15 so that in the future we will not like Manure, players gone, manager gone then they lost the way of winning game. We will not depend on person (manager, player) but we are establishing system that will work like machine in the way that you can remove a pinion and replace with new one without disturbing the whole system functioning because all of them come from the same mould. So we need our academy to grow up to be first team player and some of them will become our future manager. It sound like Barca but we will make our City DNA here.
Cruyff established the system in Barca, when he'd gone the club rely on buying star players to maintain their position. When Rijkaard was gone. They were thinking to hire another outsider Mourinho who will need to buy new star players again but they made the good choice to go back the their root by appointing Pep. We will need to do the same. This is what I think we plan to do here, from academy then first team player and finally some to be our manager to maintain our DNA and continue successful.
They have been playing that style for a few seasons now from the little kids up. It makes you wonder how much input Pep has had at the club long before he rolled up as manager.I read the article and it convince me of what in my mind. Pep is here to develop style of play from top to bottom the U-15 so that in the future we will not like Manure, players gone, manager gone then they lost the way of winning game. We will not depend on person (manager, player) but we are establishing system that will work like machine in the way that you can remove a pinion and replace with new one without disturbing the whole system functioning because all of them come from the same mould. So we need our academy to grow up to be first team player and some of them will become our future manager. It sound like Barca but we will make our City DNA here.
Cruyff established the system in Barca, when he'd gone the club rely on buying star players to maintain their position. When Rijkaard was gone. They were thinking to hire another outsider Mourinho who will need to buy new star players again but they made the good choice to go back the their root by appointing Pep. We will need to do the same. This is what I think we plan to do here, from academy then first team player and finally some to be our manager to maintain our DNA and continue successful.
That's unquestionably going to change. You've got Nacho, Garcia and Maffeo already, and I'll be amazed if we don't see Diaz and Sancho in the first team squad on a regular basis within 2 or 3 years