Harry Kane

[Blue Smarties]

We’ve hit new depths here. Fukin numbers are the problem? As if. Pmsl

It’s cuckoo land round here mate.

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Kane wanted 10?

It’s a 10 from Len

 

[leo_city]

Kane’s people are annoyed that we’ve given 10 to Grealish. Shirt numbers and brand are a big thing these days

Could understand that, also because as the Prem record signing striker (potentially) he'd be taking up 19 or somat which is a bit odd.

 

[grim up north]

Ah well he doesn’t sign because of a shirt number heard some excuses but

 

[Sam1980]

Nailed on there will be a story in the papers that Kane is unhappy about not getting the 10 now. 3 weeks after we knew he 100% wouldn’t

 

[Mancityus]

If even Messi, the greatest player of all time, was happy to take 30 instead of 10 then I think it would be ok.

If he is not ok, then he is not right for team.

 

[DrBlueBob]

so we agreed for Kane to be number 10 and then went behind his back?

Rather appropriately, given the subject matter.

 

[kaz7]

Besides he is nine not a ten

 

[Jokithedruid]

Ha, where did I say "Harry is done before Norwich"?!

It’s the internet, I don’t need to back anything with facts.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I think Pep is our greatest manager ever, so please excuse the next comments. I felt the money going into the academy was to produce players for the first team. I believe I was wrong and that the academy is a cash cow for the club. I have no issue with that ,and it has made serious sums of money that is then used to then buy players who are proven. The fact that Phil is the only one to really have made the grade in 10 years is for me a shame. Sad Sancho wasnt able to stay at the club and have a chance.We now have the resources to buy for a weakness rather than nurture our youngsters to fill that weakness. As a loyal blue, there is something about one of your own coming through the ranks that means so much to me. If Phil continues his development, stays at the club, he will be a total legend for us.Would love to see more like Phil playing. My one and only criticism of Pep would be that youngsters like Lavia, Edozie, may well be tempted by Dortmund for lack of opportunity at City etc. We had enough games to give Delap and others a chance. Last season when the title was wrapped up, why not give them a full game, not 10 minutes ?
I just wish to say this is not a criticism of City,or Pep, more a personal wish.

Money doesn’t produce talent. Top of the range training facilities, pitches and gyms do not produce talent.

Producing local or even more widely British talent is as much down to pure chance that a club just happens to stumble upon or scout an innately talented kid or group of kids at any one time, as it is anything to do with what any clubs do or how much they invest.

Over the decades, South American teams have had awful training facilities but have produced many of the best players over the decades because their kids have a ball at their feet for hours and hours a day from when they could walk which allows more of the innately talented kids to shine from an early age.

Celtic produced a great football team of local lads that won the European Cup by the pure chance that all those kids came through their Academy at once (it had never happened before and it hasn’t happened since). United produced half a team of their own players by pure chance that they all happened to come through their Academy at the same time (it had never happened before and it hasn’t happened since). Barcelona produced a great football team that Pep first coached who were the core of winning three trebles in a decade by pure chance that all those players came through at the same time from their Academy (it had never happened before and it hasn’t happened since).

There’s nothing particularly good about Celtic, United and Barça’s Academies as history has proven that they were all just one-off occurrences that a group of kids just happened to all come along at once. There’s never been a conveyor belt of talent coming through all the time through the decades at those clubs, and there hasn’t been anywhere else they’ve got a lot of money to put into their academies neither.

Phil Foden, by pure chance, just happened to be born with innate talent. He’s said just recently that he’s had a ball at his feet from when he could walk, he used to have a ball at his feet all the time, he’d dribble the ball to the shops to get milk for his Mother, he’d be out in the street playing football until it got dark… he was already a very talented kid before City even managed to scout him. He just happens to have been born in the local area and happens to be a City fan.