Jadon Sancho

[Centurions]

navas isnt in our team though, hes on the bench near enough every game. this thread is about sancho, dont know why you are getting so worked up about navas. he hasn't kept sancho out of the side either, sancho isn't ready for the first team yet imo. maybe the odd cup game, but hes still very young.

I can only presume Navas ran over his dog, there must be 25% of his posts now about his opinion on the lad. Safe to say he's not a fan.

The fact that him and Sancho play on opposite sides (almost exclusively) seems to have escaped his attention. It's just as well for Sane that he's as good as he is or he'd be getting pelters instead.

 

[MarsLlama]

You can't stop playing an experienced, highly paid and highly successful player in order to give game time to a 16-year-old who may or may not be ready to play the occasional game and is certainly not fit enough yet to live the lifestyle of a Premier League footballer. The game doesn't work that way.

 

[mad zab]

I thought Jadon had signed a new contract last year. Had a search and transfer market has him signed until 2020. Don't know how reliable they are though.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jadon-sancho/profil/spieler/401173

Jadon Sancho
Born/age: Mar 25, 2000 (16)

Nationality:

England

Height: 1,78 m

Position: Centre-Forward

Contract until: 30.06.2020

Current international:

England U17

International caps/goals: 6/5

Man City U18

Country:

England
In team since: Jul 1, 2016
Contract until: 30.06.2020

 

[mad zab]

Also MEN has a story about him signing a contract in 2015

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...news/manchester-city-one-watch-jadon-10288612

 

[Centurions]

Also MEN has a story about him signing a contract in 2015

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...news/manchester-city-one-watch-jadon-10288612

That's probably a scholarship form he's signing.

 

[mad zab]

That's probably a scholarship form he's signing.

Maybe it is, but the article mentions him being at City for the next 5 years without giving any contract dates. I am sure he won't be out of contract this summer if it is a scholarship though.

 

[80s Shorts]

These rumours are undoubtably based on truth, as every club in the country will want Sancho, but any of us could write a similar piece without even researching it & be more or less correct. All the clubs will be sniffing around all of our best young players. It's what they do. It's unlikely he'll go anywhere.

I don't think there is CURRENTLY any problem whatsoever with Sancho 'not getting game time' or Diaz, or any of the younger kids, they haven't really been ready for it, they are/were too young & have no real argument they merit it, 'yet'.

The problem is the fact that most of the older kids in their position, have resisted any poaching, stayed at the club & been 'rewarded' by not even getting a sniff of the first team when many did, absolutely, merit it. The 'new' academy, has been open a few years now, so kids & their parents have actual history & timelines, to judge how other kids were treated by the club & whether continuing with City is the best option for them.


I think it is, because I believe (perhaps misguidedly but we'll see) that Pep is a vastly different animal to Pellegrini & that he will be actively trying to get as many kids as possible, onto the pitch in the first team. He has to balance it with prioritising success, but he will try, I believe.

If it doesn't happen though, we will lose a lot of the best kids to our rivals, some at 16 & some won't even sign in the first place. The next few years will decide whether our academy succeeds or is overtaken by our rivals, who are all frantic about catching us & WILL play the best kids in their teams, even if it's only for 20 mins.

I have been going to 'kids' games & training sessions on & off since I was younger than most kids at the club, & Pellegrini's reign has more or less finished me with it. I've never in all those years, seen such a wealth of potential talent squandered & mishandled & I've seen my arse with it, so I'll go just a few times a season now, until I see proof I'm not wasting my time.

If I feel like that, then there is a decent chance at least some parents & advisors have a similar feeling.

The Academy was opened 26 months ago and they were training there a month or two previously. Hardly "a few years".

 

[Neville Kneville]

The Academy was opened 26 months ago and they were training there a month or two previously. Hardly "a few years".

Twenty six months isn't 'a few years' ? What the exactly is it then ? Do they have a Quantum Physics department there or something & I'm missing the true function ?

And it's an absolutely ridiculous notion that the academy only existed when the new buildings were 'opened' . As if before that, nothing happened & none of the kids were actually being coached anywhere, or they had to live like tramps outside the huge indoor training facility at Moss side, where SWP, Ireland, Michael Johnson, Micah Richards, Sturridge, etc all came through to play Premier League football. All that happened was they moved.

And of course since that move, we've produced....

 

[Cobra]

Whilst I’m pretty sure that Sancho won’t leave, it wouldn’t surprise me if over the next few years more kids start to do what Tyrese Campbell did – spend 2-3 years in our academy making the most of the top class facilities and coaching and then leave for a club where they know they stand more of a chance of breaking into the first team. But I guess that’s the price we’re going to have to pay when we have so many talented youngsters.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Whilst I’m pretty sure that Sancho won’t leave, it wouldn’t surprise me if over the next few years more kids start to do what Tyrese Campbell did – spend 2-3 years in our academy making the most of the top class facilities and coaching and then leave for a club where they know they stand more of a chance of breaking into the first team. But I guess that’s the price we’re going to have to pay when we have so many talented youngsters.

It's unavoidable that will happen with a few, even if t academy runs perfectly, but what we don't want, is kids like Sancho to see City as a place where you go to get the best training & eduction, but then go somewhere else to work as there is no chance of a job. Because there may come a point, where oour competitors offer a decent enough standard of both & a fair chance of a job at the end of it.

We need to get one through & get it started again, producing for our team. Our academy has dried up.