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unexpected item said:
I seem to remember this being used to indicate the signing of David Silva. The Cartwright brother's local = The Silver Dollar...maybe we're after Bernardo Silva?
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Has @tolmie's hairdoo ever explained his clues? The only ones I know are London boys is self explanatory, nimrod is deal agreed and sookie is done deal! God knows how people work the rest out
 
Shaelumstash said:
I think people would get more excited by us signing Sanchez or Griezmann rather than Kyle Walker. But the thing is, we're more in need of Kyle Walker than we are the other two. You tend to get more excited about the things you like rather than what you need. I'm sure you'd get more excited about your two week holiday than getting a new boiler, but needs must sometimes.
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Are you Ted Rogers?
 
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Exactly, I have complete faith in the academy. In the near future, I am confident we'll frequently have some academy lads playing major roles in the first team. We just have to be realistic. Everyone is obsessed with the Barca generation that came from their academy including amazing players like Messi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pique, Xavi the reality is that is a very, very, very rare occurrence.

For clubs challenging for the big trophies, it will be impossible to field a team made up mostly from academy graduates. I am looking at Real's team today, only Carvajal is from the academy I believe. Atletico 3 players, Juve 0, Bayern 2, Chelsea 0, PSG 0, in their starting elevens. We will be lucky to have even 2 players from the academy constantly in the starting 11 in the future.

Our fans put too much pressure on the managers to use the academy products, reality is most are not good enough and a lot will never be.
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This is a really poor mentality. First of all, you name 5 players from la masia, nobody is arguing that we should have tons of youth in the team that are playing, just atleast 1. Nobody is arguing our starting 11 should be mostly academy graduates either.

Next you named all these big clubs academy talents, not realizing that some of them have had players already go through their academy and make it into their first team. This is the KEY difference, we have had NOBODY make it in a long time, or given the chance. We have bought some really good young guys I will admit.

Brandon Barker, Jason Denayer, Rony Lopes are the oldest examples I can think of that should have DEFINITELY been integrated in some capacity, and we didn't. Look at the squad depth right now, after David Silva there is no agile attacking creative midfielders in the team, since we also loaned out Nasri. We had Zinchenko (who is 20, a good age) who could have given Silva rest, but Pep decided he'd be better off getting more games at PSV, which he didn't, they don't even play him.

Concerning current academy players, yes they are too young (16,17,18), but the history shows a different picture than you think. The best I can do is hope Pep will give them a chance, no evidence has given me this hope, but it's blind.

Edit: Just read about the Maffeo situation concerning Navas coming back, well...
 
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