Is the penny dropping?

[BlueAnorak]

If he started with is are the age of 16 then we will we banned like Real and Atletico...

 

[bazbarrybazzer]

The Mirror were very complimentary

Thanks Karen.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

A big, burly 19 year old striker gave a showing yesterday of the quality that is rolling off the production line. Also, Pellegrini's side will have tougher training games, probably against their own acadamy. A couple of paragraphs from this mornings paper by a journo called Ralph Ellis. Coupled with what was said on MOTD last do you at think that the media are finally realising what is happening at our club.

This the operative word - A! Kelechi appears to be the only one who seems capable of slotting straight into the first team and staying their. There's plenty of good 'uns but he's the only one. I fancy it will be a season or two when we see what the U16s can do or ten years to see what the U8s can do! We shouldn't get carried away. The facilities over the road are infinitely better that the quantity rolling off the production line!

 

[its grim up north]

As he was a non-eu minor, It is illegal for us to have signed him before he turned 18.

Stand corrected, I heard 2013 when he came to us ,did not know that he only signed a pre contract agreement.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Who's that?

ziggy zig zag.

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

This the operative word - A! Kelechi appears to be the only one who seems capable of slotting straight into the first team and staying their. There's plenty of good 'uns but he's the only one. I fancy it will be a season or two when we see what the U16s can do or ten years to see what the U8s can do! We shouldn't get carried away. The facilities over the road are infinitely better that the quantity rolling off the production line!

Things like this take time & it will be a gradual progression. It might be 10 years before the first true academy product makes the first team. By true academy product i mean a player who came to City as his first club. It could happen before but it will happen & will happen more often the longer the academy stays open. There certainly won't be any cherry picking of our players...thats history because of the amount of games they are involved in now. Imagine City's value when they are able to play 5 or 6 academy in the first team. 4/5 Billion?

 

[Rammyblues]

Nope, not while the said paper writers continue to lick the arse of the swamp dwellers, don't forget what the pisscan said, not in his lifetime last time I looked he was still alive!!!!

 

[yankcitizen76]

I doubt it. At least not from an international standpoint, I checked all my news feeds and not one f-ing City lead-in article. I saw Nacho's picture on FOX and that was it. I ran Nacho's picture on my Facebook page, and late last night when I went down to the pub to catch a replay, my friends said, "Who the hell IS that guy?"
We are going to have to win on Europe to finally break throigh. Pep, hear we come!

 

[Colin Bell's Boots]

I doubt it. At least not from an international standpoint, I checked all my news feed and not one f-ing City lead-in article. I saw Nacho's picture on FOX and that was it. I ran Nacho's picture on my Facebook page, and late last night when I went down to the pub to catch a replay, my friends said, "Who the hell IS that guy?"
We are going to have to win on Europe to finally break throigh. Pep, hear we come!

The media is so Rag infested that it will be a long time before the sewer rats change their tune.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Nope, not while the said paper writers continue to lick the arse of the swamp dwellers, don't forget what the pisscan said, not in his lifetime last time I looked he was still alive!!!!

But he didn't look the best colour on Wednesday!!