This looks like a real crop of genuine potential players. They are better than most of the others who are older than them.
They are all good footballers including the defenders. They all work hard.
Crucially imo, the best ones are not small & short of a yard of pace, which became our identikit future 'star' young player for a while. It seems now that the penny has dropped: It turned out that no matter how skilled & clever they are, if they can't run & can't battle, they can't play for us.
These are mostly decent physically & can keep pace with opposition, or better, & it appears, intelligent on the ball.
You can see the lad we 'stole' from PSG, who is obviously a talented lad but why would anyone pick him, if we have a faster 6 foot player who is just as good at everything he does ?
Palmer, Doyle,(when played in a more attacking role) Delap already look first team ready, physically.
The one who frustrates me is Nmecha. I think he has absolutely everything needed to play for City, but often when I see him play, he just seems to fuck about.
Excited about these lot.