Maybe we should have gone against the Manager and gave him the assurances he wanted....
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Maybe we should have gone against the Manager and gave him the assurances he wanted....
Maybe we should have gone against the Manager and gave him the assurances he wanted....
Maybe we should have played some youngsters over the last decade so real talents like Sancho wouldn't feel the need to contractually obligate City to play them.
Sancho has 8 appearances, 2 starts, 2 goals and 6 assists.
Reiss Nelson has 4 appearances, 2 starts and 4 goals. Joint top scorer for Hoffenheim yet is never mentioned. Didn’t even realize he went there tbh before I saw him on the score sheet.
Both are also the same age and Dortmund are the much better team. Yet nobody talks about Nelson and Sancho is apparently a superstar in the making. I wonder why
Because Sancho is much, much better an anyone who's watched them both knows it. It's why Sancho is in the England team, and Reiss Nelson is in the u21's. It's why a better club than Hoffenheim went for Sancho. It's why Sancho is playing in the Champions League, and became the second youngest English player to score in the champions league.
Oh and also Nelson is only there on loan. He's not quit England to get ahead in his career like Sancho has, not turned down a massive contract which would have been nice and easy.
I suspect the people complaining about Sancho's press coverage haven't even seen him play for Dortmund. watch a game or two and the hype immediately makes sense.
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Unless he becomes one of the very best, as in top three players in the world, we won't live to regret it.
That’s a ridiculous standard to set for our young players. Unless they are too 3 in the world then they aren’t good enough haha really ?
Maybe we should have played some youngsters over the last decade so real talents like Sancho wouldn't feel the need to contractually obligate City to play them.
Which youngster over the last decade have we regretted losing? I can't think of one that would get anywhere near our first team squad apart from Trippier who was a late bloomer.
Which youngster over the last decade have we regretted losing? I can't think of one that would get anywhere near our first team squad apart from Trippier who was a late bloomer.
You've completely missed the point. We've been losing kids for a while now because of a decade of young kids not getting a chance. Not because no world class players have come through, but because they didn't get a chance to even show if they were good enough.
And we started to lose more and more players over the past couple years - Lopes, Ty Campbell, Bobby Duncan, Sancho all massively rated at the academy before they left. It was only a matter of time until one of them went off an became a world class player away from City and we get taught a £100m lesson.
All we needed to do to avoid that was do what pretty much every other club does. Just drop a few kids in a couple of times a season when they're doing well at u21 level. Have more than 1 league start from a new academy player in 10 years.
You do that, and Sancho is probably still here, he probably makes his breakthrough last season when we miss out on Sanchez, because he was definitely more physically developed than Foden and we needed another wing option last season.
People like @twosips and @Neville Kneville have been saying this for literally 5 years if don't give anyone a chance and sooner or later we were gonna lose a kid who went on to make us look very stupid.
Hopefully it's a lesson the club learns. Because by all accounts that 2000 age group with Sancho + Foden was just the beginning, and there will be more and more kids like that coming up, and unless we start giving kids a chance, there'll be more kids like Sancho walking out the door.
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We promised him time in the first team when he was seventeen and long before he'd earned a spot IMO. Staying with us would have been a good option.
He chose a different path, and good luck to him. But his decision will be judged on his career as a whole, not a very good half season at the start of it.
He chose a different path, and good luck to him. But his decision will be judged on his career as a whole, not a very good half season at the start of it.
You've completely missed the point
Not really mate. Over 70m of that 100m have already been recouped from academy players with more to come from add-ons.
It's nice to be romantic, I also want players to breakthrough but I'm also very happy with our business model.
We promised him time in the first team when he was seventeen and long before he'd earned a spot IMO. Staying with us would have been a good option.
He chose a different path, and good luck to him. But his decision will be judged on his career as a whole, not a very good half season at the start of it.
Is the correct answer. How we laugh at the Rags when one of their youth team players is hyped to excess only to end up at Sunderland.