Ah wasnt aware of that, I knew he had played that game so assume he was still knocking about. Weird to retire in middle of a Champions league campaign.
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Centurions
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Think he just wanted to hang on to play us, they made him captain for the day at least.
CJ Egan-Riley has been playing regularly for Burnley at centre-back this season and seems to be really impressing based on a few tweets I’ve seen. Burnley have the best defensive record in the country too (6 goals conceded in 17 games)
johnny crossan
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mexico1970
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This list of players is damning, it's pretty obvious that we have a youth system designed to mainly generate profit.
www.planetfootball.com
The £442million Man City have made from selling academy graduates under Pep Guardiola
Manchester City have spent a lot of money – over £1billion, in fact – during Pep Guardiola's time in charge. But while rivals like Manchester United and Arsenal have struggled to raise funds in the transfer market, City's net spend in recent years is comparatively low – thanks to offloading...
www.planetfootball.com
This list of players is damning, it's pretty obvious that we have a youth system designed to mainly generate profit.
The £442million Man City have made from selling academy graduates under Pep Guardiola
Manchester City have spent a lot of money – over £1billion, in fact – during Pep Guardiola's time in charge. But while rivals like Manchester United and Arsenal have struggled to raise funds in the transfer market, City's net spend in recent years is comparatively low – thanks to offloading...
So many of those players aren’t academy graduates though - Porro, Unal, Mooy, Harrison, Itakura, Luiz, Rulli etc
Its also out of date as it doesn’t include the players we sold in the summer like Harwood-Bellis, Delap and Hamilton
mexico1970
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That's not the point I am making, the point is that we buy young players just to sell. Porro and Mooy never even played a game for us until we shifted them on.
The list is littered with players just like it.
Gareth Barry Conlon
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Not sure what your point is. We make shit loads from this business and any other pl team would want to be able to do this. Are some of them good enough to get in our team, yes but they have benefited from moves to get playing time. And we won the league 4x in a row.
They are not pokemon. You can't catch them all.
mexico1970
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We hardly catch any, my point is that why do fans get excited about an academy which is just there to earn profit whilst the club put the prices up anyway?
What benefit is it to us as fans?
Centurions
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Can't you even cheer up over the Christmas period?