Jadon Sancho

YaYa's Left Peg said:
I see what you're saying. I still think it's a shame that Sancho didn't stay and back himself to at least try and break into the first team squad. What harm would a couple of more years under Pep actually have done? Which makes me wonder what his (or his advisers) real motivation for moving was.
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He was one of the best young players I have seen at City shame he is gone but has made the right choice. Despite what Khaldoon said in his annual address there is no real
urgency to bring youngsters through the academy. The management is under too much pressure to get results and will always choose the path of least resistance. Our academy has to be viewed as a business unit and it appears that it is going to be a successful one. The concept is to train lads up and sell them on to the highest bidder. Few if any graduates will ever play regular first team football which is sad when you consider the history of our old academy over the years. The academy will turn over a tidy profit and enable us to continue buying in the finished product.
 
Our academy is now just about the worst in the premier league for adding young players to the first team squad and getting games its was the best in england not so long ago and from about the 1960s to 2008 we turned out many players for the first team but for all the good players the club turned into first team players its was a shamble off the field of play and from the mid 1970s to our first bit of silverware under the new owners so its never going to work hand in hand

the main focus is the first team and winning silverware and top 4 and every manager since the new owners have been under pressure and we can not blame anybody also the fan want glory and world class players and the price of a match ticket to season tickets to corporate tickets demands success from game to game never mind season to season so any top manager would never put a kid into the first team with his job on the line

so for me its simple the academy now can produce very good young footballers but lack first team football and what we need is a feeder club in england something like bury or oldham were they can take 7 or 8 of our kids on to first team level but the FA will not let the bigger clubs do that with a chance of facing the parent club or even getting the feeder club into the premier league so why not have build more football clubs like maine road fc and Fcum and salford city and use them like a feeder club we could use the mini etihad it would be great to have a 2nd club and maybe get them into the championship i would go and watch maine road at the mini etihad
 
ancoats said:
Our academy is now just about the worst in the premier league for adding young players to the first team squad and getting games its was the best in england not so long ago and from about the 1960s to 2008 we turned out many players for the first team but for all the good players the club turned into first team players its was a shamble off the field of play and from the mid 1970s to our first bit of silverware under the new owners so its never going to work hand in hand

the main focus is the first team and winning silverware and top 4 and every manager since the new owners have been under pressure and we can not blame anybody also the fan want glory and world class players and the price of a match ticket to season tickets to corporate tickets demands success from game to game never mind season to season so any top manager would never put a kid into the first team with his job on the line

so for me its simple the academy now can produce very good young footballers but lack first team football and what we need is a feeder club in england something like bury or oldham were they can take 7 or 8 of our kids on to first team level but the FA will not let the bigger clubs do that with a chance of facing the parent club or even getting the feeder club into the premier league so why not have build more football clubs like maine road fc and Fcum and salford city and use them like a feeder club we could use the mini etihad it would be great to have a 2nd club and maybe get them into the championship i would go and watch maine road at the mini etihad
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It would be a good idea but not sure we would be allowed to do it by the authorities as the feeder club would have to play at a high level and as such would be
defined as a part of the City Group. We do of course have overseas operations and as I am sure you are aware one of these Girona was very much in the news this week.
Still it is hard to escape the view that the City academy just like Chelsea the other big one in the country are mini business units rather than a conveyor belt for the first team.
This year however, with our relatively thin squad (as I write Kompany is a doubt for Liverpool game) who knows the pathway at least to the bench in big games, may open up for a few of the brightest talents.
 
Father Paul said:
It would be a good idea but not sure we would be allowed to do it by the authorities as the feeder club would have to play at a high level and as such would be
defined as a part of the City Group. We do of course have overseas operations and as I am sure you are aware one of these Girona was very much in the news this week.
Still it is hard to escape the view that the City academy just like Chelsea the other big one in the country are mini business units rather than a conveyor belt for the first team.
This year however, with our relatively thin squad (as I write Kompany is a doubt for Liverpool game) who knows the pathway at least to the bench in big games, may open up for a few of the brightest talents.
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we all want the same thing and success at the first team level and it must come first and the academy is just way down the line in a way of giving players to the first team football its now a business and like all must show good results at the top end and if you start to undercut the quality with cheaper products it will show fast

football and the premier league needs a 2nd level like the old reserve teams some where to bed the youth in and give them game time mixed with first team players of world class standards forget being loan out to lower leagues to play football at that level the class of football is just not there so the premier league clubs must come together and form a 2nd team league with more than couple 1 or 2 playing from the first team it will work on both fronts with youth and getting squad players game time and back to full fitness after a injury its a no brainier really
 
Ric said:
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We clearly did everything we could on our end to get him to stay. Pep and the club clearly wanted him to stay.

I wonder what changed on his end...Can only assume he thinks he'll get more game time elsewhere.
 
was waiting for this to come out. needless to say his agent has pissed off a lot of people on basically every side of this deal
 
Shaking someone's hand and agreeing on a deal then breaking that promise is pretty shameful and smacks of his agent influence.
 
The long term impact of this is already being written by the hacks, should he fulfill his potential..... he has a big shout to make it at the top end, this will be thrown in our faces at every opportunity, making him out to be some kind of trailblazer....

This will be our pogba I imagine!!!
 
See the full Pep comments on Sancho here



Just confirmed my thoughts that Sancho isn't up to the challenge. Pep is right, if he shows in training that he could take on the senior players, he would definitely play imo.
 
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