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Former Academy Kids
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bluestevei
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Bob could be another for usIts made a lot of money in the last 10 - 12 years ?
but who has come through
Foden, and Rico,but Rico is not pushing on as most would like for whatever reason.
M23 Citizen
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And then he went for his next target… I’m not making excuses, I’m just not picking on things to moan about that have absolutely no long term evidence to show they were the wrong decisions yet.Bellingham signed for Madrid in June, we sold Rogers in July. We knew Bellingham wasn’t coming here.
Come on man, stop trying to find excuses.
Like I said, in about 8 years’ time we’ll see whether all this was a mistake or not.
Would Rogers look as good as he did on Saturday against that slow City midfielders and that high City defensive line, if he was currently playing for City against teams who sit back in their own box?
I guarantee that if he was struggling to break teams down playing for us now because he’s not that kind of player, we’d have people moaning that we stuck with youth players with no ambition to sign world class players for the progression of the club after De Bruyne moves on.
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Man_City_Loyal
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As I said, it is very annoying!
But Foden was the future. Bobb is the future.
We - maybe stupidly - sold Rogers and Palmer when we were going for Bellingham and Rice. Nunes would probably on the tabs along the spreadsheet of midfield targets where you have to click right to see more tabs. But we got neither Bellingham nor Rice, nor Paqueta nor Brandt and ended up with Nunes and no Rogers or Palmer.
But maybe not stupidly, if Foden and Bobb end up being a fantastic attacking midfield duo in the next decade.
We’ll only know whether it was stupid not in about eight years’ time when we see whether Foden and Bobb become as good as we hope.
i trust the club truly believed Rogers wasn't good enough for us. If he was, he wouldnt of been let go.
01cravend
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i trust the club truly believed Rogers wasn't good enough for us. If he was, he wouldnt of been let go.
Instead he'd be sat on our bench getting zero minutes
Bellingham signed for Madrid in June, we sold Rogers in July. We knew Bellingham wasn’t coming here.
Come on man, stop trying to find excuses.
Rogers failed on loan to three separate clubs and has hit a purple patch at Villa and now suddenly he's a lost gem. Not a single one of you were asking for him in the first team after his shitshows at Lincoln and Blackpool
TonyColemansbagofapples
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I've thought he wasn't good enough even before we bought him.
I was at this West Bromwich Youth Cup tie where we apparently noticed him. That's bollocks because I had heard we were expecting to sign him and, apart from obviously wanting to see our youth team play, went to that match to see what he was like. In the same team WBA also had Louie Barry (rumoured at the time to be joining Barcelona which he did) and another really hyped up winger called Rayharn Tulloch. All three were shite and I was pretty pissed off when we paid £4m for him.
He did nothing whilst with us and nothing on his loans to various clubs until he went to Middlesbrough. Now he is at Villa and getting a couple of games, and he is still not a nailed on regular for them, it is just another example of the media trying to have a go at us and some City fans are falling for it.
I'll tell you how good he is, I hope the dippers or Stretford Rovers pay a fortune for him.
I was at this West Bromwich Youth Cup tie where we apparently noticed him. That's bollocks because I had heard we were expecting to sign him and, apart from obviously wanting to see our youth team play, went to that match to see what he was like. In the same team WBA also had Louie Barry (rumoured at the time to be joining Barcelona which he did) and another really hyped up winger called Rayharn Tulloch. All three were shite and I was pretty pissed off when we paid £4m for him.
He did nothing whilst with us and nothing on his loans to various clubs until he went to Middlesbrough. Now he is at Villa and getting a couple of games, and he is still not a nailed on regular for them, it is just another example of the media trying to have a go at us and some City fans are falling for it.
I'll tell you how good he is, I hope the dippers or Stretford Rovers pay a fortune for him.
City64!
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Not one single one of us works for the club and watches everything the kids do. That’s on the academy director and Pep.Rogers failed on loan to three separate clubs and has hit a purple patch at Villa and now suddenly he's a lost gem. Not a single one of you were asking for him in the first team after his shitshows at Lincoln and Blackpool
Funny you mention Rogers was way off it, but Pep is quoted on Saturday saying that everyone at the club knew he’d be good..
Not disagreeing with the rest of what you said but he is a nailed on starter now.He did nothing whilst with us and nothing on his loans to various clubs until he went to Middlesbrough. Now he is at Villa and getting a couple of games, and he is still not a nailed on regular for them,
17 games this season so far.
TonyColemansbagofapples
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Have you ever heard Pep criticise a player? He'd probably say I had potential.Not one single one of us works for the club and watches everything the kids do. That’s on the academy director and Pep.
Funny you mention Rogers was way off it, but Pep is quoted on Saturday saying that everyone at the club knew he’d be good..