Ex City Youth Players

MCFCFanTX said:
Jamie Bynoe Gittens is running riot today for Dortmund.

Morgan Rogers played really well for Villa. No idea he was such a powerful runner with the ball.
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Rodgers is a big powerful lad, he's not very quick though which always stood out playing for our youth teams. I wonder if he has the talent to play more central in a Gundo or Lampard type role. He'd cause chaos running at the centre of the defence.
 
Pep Guardiola has now given debuts to 30 academy graduates, the most of any manager (at least since the restructuring of academy football in the late 90s):

Pablo Maffeo
Brahim Díaz
Phil Foden
Lukas Nmecha
Tom Dele-Bashiru
Claudio Gomes
Arijanet Muric
Adrián Bernabé
Eric García
Ian Poveda
Felix Nmecha
Taylor Harwood-Bellis
Tommy Doyle
Liam Delap
Cole Palmer
Samuel Edozie
Ben Knight
CJ Egan-Riley
Luke Mbete
Finley Burns
Josh Wilson-Esbrand
Roméo Lavia
James McAtee
Rico Lewis
Shea Charles
Oscar Bobb
Micah Hamilton
Mahamadou Susoho
Jacob Wright
Nico O'Reilly

(the 12 players in bold have international caps)

For context, previous managers:

Manuel Pellegrini: 12 (Emyr Huws, José Pozo, Kelechi Iheanacho, Manu García, George Evans, Bersant Celina, Angeliño, Cameron Humphreys, David Faupala, Aleix García, Tosin Adarabioyo, Brandon Barker)

Roberto Mancini: 16 (Dedryck Boyata, Abdisalam Ibrahim, Greg Cunningham, Alex Nimely, Ben Mee, John Guidetti, Javan Vidal, Chris Chantler, Abdul Razak, Ryan McGivern, Reece Wabara, Karim Rekik, Luca Scapuzzi, Denis Suárez, Jérémy Hélan, Marcos Lopes)

Mark Hughes: 1 (Vladimír Weiss)

Sven-Göran Eriksson: 5 (Kasper Schmeichel, Shaleum Logan, Kelvin Etuhu, Ched Evans, Sam Williamson)

Stuart Pearce: 5 (Stephen Ireland, Micah Richards, Ishmael Miller, Michael Johnson, Daniel Sturridge)

Kevin Keegan: 14 (Chris Shuker, Dickson Etuhu, Leon Mike, Chris Killen, Tyrone Mears, Joey Barton, Stephen Jordan, Willo Flood, Glenn Whelan, Stephen Elliott, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Nedum Onuoha, Jonathan D'Laryea, Lee Croft)
 
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kun said:
Pep Guardiola has now given debuts to 30 academy graduates, the most of any manager (at least since the restructuring of academy football in the late 90s):

For context, previous managers:

Manuel Pellegrini: 12 (...)

Roberto Mancini: 16 (...)

Mark Hughes: 1 (...)

Sven-Göran Eriksson: 5 (...)

Stuart Pearce: 5 (...)

Kevin Keegan: 14 (...)

Joe Royle: 2 (Shaun Wright-Phillips, Terry Dunfield)
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I think Joe Royle defo gave Nick Fenton his debut too and you've missed his name out mate, remember all the hype around Fenton big things were expected of him.
Joe Royle hinted while here he played a player too young and it potentially ruined him, some think the player in question that Royle talked about was Nick Fenton.

There was a player called Alan Bailey who left us for Stockport after a single game, then scored against us while we were managed by Joe Royle in a game we lost that I was at, the M.E.N. said the next day that he played 1 game for us but not sure if he made his debut under Royle.

Another couple I'm unsure of are Steven Rimmer and David Morley can't be sure who either played under, Rimmer was bigging up the fact he played one game for our first team years ago.
Both on the clubs books under Royle but not sure how long for, Morley scored on his debut then just pretty much disappeared but that might've been under Frank Clarke.
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
I think Joe Royle defo gave Nick Fenton his debut too and you've missed his name out mate, remember all the hype around Fenton big things were expected of him.
Joe Royle hinted while here he played a player too young and it potentially ruined him, some think the player in question that Royle talked about was Nick Fenton.

There was a player called Alan Bailey who left us for Stockport after a single game, then scored against us while we were managed by Joe Royle in a game we lost that I was at, the M.E.N. said the next day that he played 1 game for us but not sure if he made his debut under Royle.

Another couple I'm unsure of are Steven Rimmer and David Morley can't be sure who either played under, Rimmer was bigging up the fact he played one game for our first team years ago.
Both on the clubs books under Royle but not sure how long for, Morley scored on his debut then just pretty much disappeared but that might've been under Frank Clarke.
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Only left out because he pre-dates the restructuring of the academy. I was only counting from SWP onwards, as he was supposedly the first player from the academy in its new form. I struggle to find too much info on academy grads pre—98.

But yes you are right. Fenton made his debut for Joe Royle.

I’m just gonna take Royle’s name off entirely as he managed before and after the academy restructure.
 
Kinkladze's crazy skills said:
I think Joe Royle defo gave Nick Fenton his debut too and you've missed his name out mate, remember all the hype around Fenton big things were expected of him.
Joe Royle hinted while here he played a player too young and it potentially ruined him, some think the player in question that Royle talked about was Nick Fenton.

There was a player called Alan Bailey who left us for Stockport after a single game, then scored against us while we were managed by Joe Royle in a game we lost that I was at, the M.E.N. said the next day that he played 1 game for us but not sure if he made his debut under Royle.

Another couple I'm unsure of are Steven Rimmer and David Morley can't be sure who either played under, Rimmer was bigging up the fact he played one game for our first team years ago.
Both on the clubs books under Royle but not sure how long for, Morley scored on his debut then just pretty much disappeared but that might've been under Frank Clarke.
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Very true about Stephen Rimmer.
Was my old P.E teacher, first thing he said when he found out I was a City Fan.
 
kun said:
Only left out because he pre-dates the restructuring of the academy. I was only counting from SWP onwards, as he was supposedly the first player from the academy in its new form. I struggle to find too much info on academy grads pre—98.

But yes you are right. Fenton made his debut for Joe Royle.

I’m just gonna take Royle’s name off entirely as he managed before and after the academy restructure.
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Ah right, understand what you're saying now about Fenton predating the academy.
He was here from the mid 90s the same with Rimmer and Morley, and imagine the same for Bailey too but I can't find anything about him.

I think Royle should actually still be included though mate as the academy definitely pre dated his spell as boss, think we'd hired Cassell a while before Joe Royle and were already in the process implementing it behind the scenes.
Jim Cassell running it probably helped big time as Royle knew from his Oldham days, he probably had the confidence to play Dunfield and SWP on the word of Cassell.

Maybe just list Joe Royle's name while including both SWP and Terry Dunfield, you're initial list was fine I've probably just put some doubt in your mind, add a similar note to this (other youth debutants under Royle pre dated the academy) in your initial post if need be with Royle reinstated.
 
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kun said:
Pep Guardiola has now given debuts to 30 academy graduates, the most of any manager (at least since the restructuring of academy football in the late 90s):

Pablo Maffeo
Brahim Díaz
Phil Foden
Lukas Nmecha
Tom Dele-Bashiru
Claudio Gomes
Arijanet Muric
Adrián Bernabé
Eric García
Ian Poveda
Felix Nmecha
Taylor Harwood-Bellis
Tommy Doyle
Liam Delap
Cole Palmer
Samuel Edozie
Ben Knight
CJ Egan-Riley
Luke Mbete
Finley Burns
Josh Wilson-Esbrand
Roméo Lavia
James McAtee
Rico Lewis
Shea Charles
Oscar Bobb
Micah Hamilton
Mahamadou Susoho
Jacob Wright
Nico O'Reilly

(the 12 players in bold have international caps)

For context, previous managers:

Manuel Pellegrini: 12 (Emyr Huws, José Pozo, Kelechi Iheanacho, Manu García, George Evans, Bersant Celina, Angeliño, Cameron Humphreys, David Faupala, Aleix García, Tosin Adarabioyo, Brandon Barker)

Roberto Mancini: 16 (Dedryck Boyata, Abdisalam Ibrahim, Greg Cunningham, Alex Nimely, Ben Mee, John Guidetti, Javan Vidal, Chris Chantler, Abdul Razak, Ryan McGivern, Reece Wabara, Karim Rekik, Luca Scapuzzi, Denis Suárez, Jérémy Hélan, Marcos Lopes)

Mark Hughes: 1 (Vladimír Weiss)

Sven-Göran Eriksson: 5 (Kasper Schmeichel, Shaleum Logan, Kelvin Etuhu, Ched Evans, Sam Williamson)

Stuart Pearce: 5 (Stephen Ireland, Micah Richards, Ishmael Miller, Michael Johnson, Daniel Sturridge)

Kevin Keegan: 14 (Chris Shuker, Dickson Etuhu, Leon Mike, Chris Killen, Tyrone Mears, Joey Barton, Stephen Jordan, Willo Flood, Glenn Whelan, Stephen Elliott, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Nedum Onuoha, Jonathan D'Laryea, Lee Croft)
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Did Sven not give Hart his debut and was Brahim Diaz not given his under The Charming man.
 
kingn6 said:
Did Sven not give Hart his debut and was Brahim Diaz not given his under The Charming man.
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Both no.

Pearce gave Hart his debut but Hart never set foot in the academy, joined the first team and already had over 50 senior appearances at Shrewsbury.

Brahim Díaz made his debut in an EFL cup tie vs Swansea in 2016/17.
 
kun said:
Both no.

Pearce gave Hart his debut but Hart never set foot in the academy, joined the first team and already had over 50 senior appearances at Shrewsbury.

Brahim Díaz made his debut in an EFL cup tie vs Swansea in 2016/17.
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What about Leon Mike and N’Golo Kante ;-)
 
kingn6 said:
What about Leon Mike and N’Golo Kante ;-)
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Okay, can someone genuinely fill me in on the Kante thing? I've seen it so many times over the years and did for a while believe he'd genuinely been through our academy as a teenager... obviously I know these days he never was.
 
kun said:
Pep Guardiola has now given debuts to 30 academy graduates, the most of any manager (at least since the restructuring of academy football in the late 90s):

Pablo Maffeo
Brahim Díaz
Phil Foden
Lukas Nmecha
Tom Dele-Bashiru
Claudio Gomes
Arijanet Muric
Adrián Bernabé
Eric García
Ian Poveda
Felix Nmecha
Taylor Harwood-Bellis
Tommy Doyle
Liam Delap
Cole Palmer
Samuel Edozie
Ben Knight
CJ Egan-Riley
Luke Mbete
Finley Burns
Josh Wilson-Esbrand
Roméo Lavia
James McAtee
Rico Lewis
Shea Charles
Oscar Bobb
Micah Hamilton
Mahamadou Susoho
Jacob Wright
Nico O'Reilly

(the 12 players in bold have international caps)

For context, previous managers:

Manuel Pellegrini: 12 (Emyr Huws, José Pozo, Kelechi Iheanacho, Manu García, George Evans, Bersant Celina, Angeliño, Cameron Humphreys, David Faupala, Aleix García, Tosin Adarabioyo, Brandon Barker)

Roberto Mancini: 16 (Dedryck Boyata, Abdisalam Ibrahim, Greg Cunningham, Alex Nimely, Ben Mee, John Guidetti, Javan Vidal, Chris Chantler, Abdul Razak, Ryan McGivern, Reece Wabara, Karim Rekik, Luca Scapuzzi, Denis Suárez, Jérémy Hélan, Marcos Lopes)

Mark Hughes: 1 (Vladimír Weiss)

Sven-Göran Eriksson: 5 (Kasper Schmeichel, Shaleum Logan, Kelvin Etuhu, Ched Evans, Sam Williamson)

Stuart Pearce: 5 (Stephen Ireland, Micah Richards, Ishmael Miller, Michael Johnson, Daniel Sturridge)

Kevin Keegan: 14 (Chris Shuker, Dickson Etuhu, Leon Mike, Chris Killen, Tyrone Mears, Joey Barton, Stephen Jordan, Willo Flood, Glenn Whelan, Stephen Elliott, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Nedum Onuoha, Jonathan D'Laryea, Lee Croft)
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Superb work
 
kun said:
Pep Guardiola has now given debuts to 30 academy graduates, the most of any manager (at least since the restructuring of academy football in the late 90s):

Pablo Maffeo
Brahim Díaz
Phil Foden
Lukas Nmecha
Tom Dele-Bashiru
Claudio Gomes
Arijanet Muric
Adrián Bernabé
Eric García
Ian Poveda
Felix Nmecha
Taylor Harwood-Bellis
Tommy Doyle
Liam Delap
Cole Palmer
Samuel Edozie
Ben Knight
CJ Egan-Riley
Luke Mbete
Finley Burns
Josh Wilson-Esbrand
Roméo Lavia
James McAtee
Rico Lewis
Shea Charles
Oscar Bobb
Micah Hamilton
Mahamadou Susoho
Jacob Wright
Nico O'Reilly

(the 12 players in bold have international caps)

For context, previous managers:

Manuel Pellegrini: 12 (Emyr Huws, José Pozo, Kelechi Iheanacho, Manu García, George Evans, Bersant Celina, Angeliño, Cameron Humphreys, David Faupala, Aleix García, Tosin Adarabioyo, Brandon Barker)

Roberto Mancini: 16 (Dedryck Boyata, Abdisalam Ibrahim, Greg Cunningham, Alex Nimely, Ben Mee, John Guidetti, Javan Vidal, Chris Chantler, Abdul Razak, Ryan McGivern, Reece Wabara, Karim Rekik, Luca Scapuzzi, Denis Suárez, Jérémy Hélan, Marcos Lopes)

Mark Hughes: 1 (Vladimír Weiss)

Sven-Göran Eriksson: 5 (Kasper Schmeichel, Shaleum Logan, Kelvin Etuhu, Ched Evans, Sam Williamson)

Stuart Pearce: 5 (Stephen Ireland, Micah Richards, Ishmael Miller, Michael Johnson, Daniel Sturridge)

Kevin Keegan: 14 (Chris Shuker, Dickson Etuhu, Leon Mike, Chris Killen, Tyrone Mears, Joey Barton, Stephen Jordan, Willo Flood, Glenn Whelan, Stephen Elliott, Bradley Wright-Phillips, Nedum Onuoha, Jonathan D'Laryea, Lee Croft)
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Bernabe seems to be doing well out there in Parma. 14 goals in 80 games for a midfielder isn't too bad
 
COAT_OF_ARMS said:
Okay, can someone genuinely fill me in on the Kante thing? I've seen it so many times over the years and did for a while believe he'd genuinely been through our academy as a teenager... obviously I know these days he never was.
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I seem to remember his name was been quoted as having played for us previously in his younger days (maybe he did on the guys FIFA). I remember at the time wondering if it was one of our more recent fans (easily done as we all used to support the chavs) and they probably resided outside the UK, but it could equally have been some FOC in a home in Ancoats (you know who you are). Anyway it grew legs and then people were saying 'bring him home' and it became a thing.

Anyway that's how I remember it. Must go as Matron is here with the meds. East Manchester is lovely in the rain, isn't it?
 
Asa's left peg said:
I seem to remember his name was been quoted as having played for us previously in his younger days (maybe he did on the guys FIFA). I remember at the time wondering if it was one of our more recent fans (easily done as we all used to support the chavs) and they probably resided outside the UK, but it could equally have been some FOC in a home in Ancoats (you know who you are). Anyway it grew legs and then people were saying 'bring him home' and it became a thing.

Anyway that's how I remember it. Must go as Matron is here with the meds. East Manchester is lovely in the rain, isn't it?
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I thought there was a rumour that we had scouted him as a youth player and given him a trial. But the rumour came out well after he had made it big at Leicester and was therefore probably BS.
 
Adrian Cieslewicz a Polish former academy player of ours, who was around the team that won the 2008 FA Youth Cup just made history with his team.

Cieślewicz has been playing for Welsh premier league side TNS/The New Saints for the past decade, they've just made history by becoming the first Welsh league team to qualify for a UEFA group stage.

I'm not sure if he's managed to become the captain of them or not while there, after being at the club a decade though he's clearly a club legend and made a decent living from the sport, even if it's only Wales fair play to him and he clearly loves it in Wales too as he also had a 5 year spell at Wrexham.
 
Asa's left peg said:
I seem to remember his name was been quoted as having played for us previously in his younger days (maybe he did on the guys FIFA). I remember at the time wondering if it was one of our more recent fans (easily done as we all used to support the chavs) and they probably resided outside the UK, but it could equally have been some FOC in a home in Ancoats (you know who you are). Anyway it grew legs and then people were saying 'bring him home' and it became a thing.

Anyway that's how I remember it. Must go as Matron is here with the meds. East Manchester is lovely in the rain, isn't it?
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Thanks, Asa.
 
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