stavros said:Lopes is the one who will break through and become world class.
Mark my words.
Speaking to a few scouts about him last week, and they were absolutely raving about this lad.
City rate him extremely highly.
He is outrageously good .
Completely agree with you. Lets hope lopes will get a minor breakthrough? ;)John.des said:I will be dissapointed if Pellegrini doest give lot more playing time to few youngsters than Mancini did last season.
I am not saying a youngster has to stars every match but last season, Razak got 3 sub chances in the league came in in the:
91st minute
92nd minute
90th minute
It's a joke...
Suarez didnt even play in the league last season if soccerway.com stats are good.
He was on the bench as an unused sub once only.
(Razak 8 times, 5 of them were unused.)
Lopes was on the bench once only in PL.
Rekik was out on loan, but when he wasnt he started only once and playing 80 minutes if I am right that was when both Kolarov and Clichy was injured and he played leftback. (Vs a very weak Reading.)
Apart from Nastasic last season the Under 20 years players played maybe 100 minutes in the league together.
Make it 1000 minutes this season, thats a good direction. Plus the domestic cup competitions.
stavros said:Lopes is the one who will break through and become world class.
Mark my words.
Speaking to a few scouts about him last week, and they were absolutely raving about this lad.
City rate him extremely highly.
He is outrageously good .
We all know Lopes is extremely good, id rather hear from your scout friends, who he rates highly? someone else then the usual Lopes Pozo ntcham fofana and emyrstavros said:Lopes is the one who will break through and become world class.
Mark my words.
Speaking to a few scouts about him last week, and they were absolutely raving about this lad.
City rate him extremely highly.
He is outrageously good .
John.des said:I will be dissapointed if Pellegrini doest give lot more playing time to few youngsters than Mancini did last season.
I am not saying a youngster has to stars every match but last season, Razak got 3 sub chances in the league came in in the:
91st minute
92nd minute
90th minute
It's a joke...
Suarez didnt even play in the league last season if soccerway.com stats are good.
He was on the bench as an unused sub once only.
(Razak 8 times, 5 of them were unused.)
Lopes was on the bench once only in PL.
Rekik was out on loan, but when he wasnt he started only once and playing 80 minutes if I am right that was when both Kolarov and Clichy was injured and he played leftback. (Vs a very weak Reading.)
Apart from Nastasic last season the Under 20 years players played maybe 100 minutes in the league together.
Make it 1000 minutes this season, thats a good direction. Plus the domestic cup competitions.
jauganaut said:John.des said:I will be dissapointed if Pellegrini doest give lot more playing time to few youngsters than Mancini did last season.
I am not saying a youngster has to stars every match but last season, Razak got 3 sub chances in the league came in in the:
91st minute
92nd minute
90th minute
It's a joke...
Suarez didnt even play in the league last season if soccerway.com stats are good.
He was on the bench as an unused sub once only.
(Razak 8 times, 5 of them were unused.)
Lopes was on the bench once only in PL.
Rekik was out on loan, but when he wasnt he started only once and playing 80 minutes if I am right that was when both Kolarov and Clichy was injured and he played leftback. (Vs a very weak Reading.)
Apart from Nastasic last season the Under 20 years players played maybe 100 minutes in the league together.
Make it 1000 minutes this season, thats a good direction. Plus the domestic cup competitions.
So, please, name those games we were coasting in last season..
If you can name 12 (a little more than 1000 mins) I'll eat crow.
Based on my last season's experience, we were almost always under the wire, Struggling against parked buses.
The season before, we barely won the title.
So, please tell me when these largely untested kids were supposed to play.
Infact when we did try to give them a cup competition to prove themselves, they completely botched the job.
Only motivated youngsters can play for the first team of a top club.
If you're not ripping up trees in the reserves, how the hell do you expect to get noticed?
Its like saying, you should get a promotion and then try to extenuate your poor work ethic and tardiness by blaming it on the current job you're doing not being challenging enough
jauganaut said:Well, he didn't do much when he got the chance.
He hardly ever looked hungry and got knocked of the ball so easily.
Since he's been here, we've given a few young ones chances.
Pozo and Lopes are ahead of him.
Only mistake was not sending him on loan last year.
As for our first team, no chance.
This is professional sports not kindergarten.
He could still make it, but at this stage, it'll be because he applied himself more since he already had tons of technical development before he came.
If true, I wish him the best of luck.