George Evans

[FantasyIreland]

90 mins against Fleetwood,he got excellent reviews and scored their equalizer in a 2-2 result.

Doing himself and us proud!

 

[Bob Hope]

He's a great striker of the ball. The goal he scored last night proved just that.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Agree with posters above pellegrinis record with giving youth a chance is awful. Evans should have atleast been on the bench against boro. No good saying if there good enough they will play, we will never know if there good enough because he never plays any of them.

If we had someone like pochettino you can bet we'd have given the young players a chance.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Agree with posters above pellegrinis record with giving youth a chance is awful. Evans should have atleast been on the bench against boro. No good saying if there good enough they will play, we will never know if there good enough because he never plays any of them.

If we had someone like pochettino you can bet we'd have given the young players a chance.

Almost certainly not if he was expected win the title.

A Ferguson or Guardiola type figure who has a very powerful position will do it, but managers hanging onto their jobs, expected to win trophies, will pick what they see as a result team for each game.

That's the potential problem we have next season. Pellegrini under pressure or a new bloke under pressure. But if Pellegrini is part of a plan to hand over to Guardiola or Vieira in a year or so, then it may also be part of the plan to start bringing kids through.

A new manager isn't going to do it unless ordered to.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Agree with posters above pellegrinis record with giving youth a chance is awful. Evans should have atleast been on the bench against boro. No good saying if there good enough they will play, we will never know if there good enough because he never plays any of them.

If we had someone like pochettino you can bet we'd have given the young players a chance.

Almost certainly not if he was expected win the title.

A Ferguson or Guardiola type figure who has a very powerful position will do it, but managers hanging onto their jobs, expected to win trophies, will pick what they see as a result team for each game.

That's the potential problem we have next season. Pellegrini under pressure or a new bloke under pressure. But if Pellegrini is part of a plan to hand over to Guardiola or Vieira in a year or so, then it may also be part of the plan to start bringing kids through.

A new manager isn't going to do it unless ordered to.

I understand the pressure point, but Bayern, real, barca, liverpool, united, spurs, juventus, Psg, have all given youth a chance, especially in cup games. Hopefully if vier a was in charge they would be getting more of a chance

 

[FantasyIreland]

I agree,given our quality,against carefully chosen opposition,we should be able to accommodate,and protect,a youngster in our team.
The barcodes knocked us out playing a couple of theirs ffs.....

 

[Hungarian blue]

I agree,given our quality,against carefully chosen opposition,we should be able to accommodate,and protect,a youngster in our team.
The barcodes knocked us out playing a couple of theirs ffs.....

It's not the worse strategy, and I think Guardiola has this very approach, that you have a full game-squad with 'senior' players, thus 18 players, and then the rest should consist of youngsters. Here, Pellegrini counted with a no. of 22 players with two for each position, but I would really hope that in the near future we will converge into that shape. Squad players like Navas, Milner, or even Jovetic, who sadly never reached his potential here, shouldn't be that hard to replace, although surely it might cause a bit of a drop in terms of quality initially.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

I agree,given our quality,against carefully chosen opposition,we should be able to accommodate,and protect,a youngster in our team.
The barcodes knocked us out playing a couple of theirs ffs.....

It's not the worse strategy, and I think Guardiola has this very approach, that you have a full game-squad with 'senior' players, thus 18 players, and then the rest should consist if youngsters. Here, Pellegrini counted with a no. of 22 players with two for each position, but I would really hope that in the near future we will converge into that shape. Squad players like Navas, Milner, or even Jovetic, who sadly never reached his potential here, shouldn't be that hard to replace, although surely it might cause a bit of a drop in terms of quality initially.

Agree. I would like to think there is some form of plan to move away from 2 players for every position (22+ senior pros) to something like 18 or 20 senior players and 3 or 4 retained youth / EDS player in the 18-25 age group. I would have a further target of averaging 1 appearance per game from one of the EDS players.

You would start by replacing: Milner, MDM, Lampard, Jovetic with the likes of, Denayer Lopes and Evans.

Denayer and lopes have both had really good season long loans establishing themselves as 1st choice at a decent level which is great, Evans needs to take that step next IMO but If we have Denayer and Lopes in a sub 22 man squad next year I would be really pleased.

 

[Tbilisi]

This lad is going to be a player,hope its with us but our recent record is awful.

Saw him in Abu Dhabi and was very impressed both as a player and just as importantly as a man.

 

[Neville Kneville]

I'd be delighted to see a City team competing at the top area of the league, with a bunch of homegrown kids in the squad, & I wouldn't give a toss if that meant we didn't win it.

But 95% of the whinging fuckers on here would, & people like Aguero would.

We have to find the right balance to keep everyone happy & also bring through the kids.