What I don't get is that the criticism is mostly for City. Look at the U17 WC winning team from 2017, and only 2 players have more than 5 first team appearances in a top division team, and both came through our academy. Where is the similar criticism of Chelsea for Hudson-Odoi, or for Liverpool for Ryan Brewster or Man U for Gomez? Three 1st team appearances between them!
Sancho is a result of that mismanagement and we need to learn from it IMO.
Please tell me who you would drop from our team (you can include the bench) to accommodate Sancho?
Awaits BBC evening news report on City and Sancho, unbelievable ! If he was still playing for City you'd have still never heard of him, let alone play for England !
Awaits BBC evening news report on City and Sancho, unbelievable ! If he was still playing for City you'd have still never heard of him, let alone play for England !
In one.You are probably right as he would hardly have ever played and we would still be arguing about if he is too young to be given a proper chance.
How could we have managed him different/better?
Pep stated that he did everything in his power to persuade him to stay,including offering him a wage way beyond his experience/status deserved.Shown him that previous players have had first team opportunities if they've excelled in the academy or on loan. Guys like Barker, Denayer, Roberts, Maffeo, etc. needed to get a chance or two.
Losing Sancho is the cost of the mismanagement of those players.
It would be different if he was still here though and gettin opportunities. If he was in form like now I’d potentially have him over Mahrez.
However it’s a first team squad now and every player has a chance. Can you never change or drop first team players for young players ?? Are you telling me that’s never happened before and we should never do that?
Btw I’m not saying play young players from the start every game. But right now other then foden none of our young players for the last 6 years maybe have actually had a proper chance in our team. If we can never drop/ bring in youth players as you suggest then we’ll never have a youth player as a regular starter.
Sometimes when they are talented enough you just need to give them a start or more minutes. Ie trust them. Or more like foden will leave
He has moved on pity others won't.It would be different if he was still here though and gettin opportunities. If he was in form like now I’d potentially have him over Mahrez.
However it’s a first team squad now and every player has a chance. Can you never change or drop first team players for young players ?? Are you telling me that’s never happened before and we should never do that?
Btw I’m not saying play young players from the start every game. But right now other then foden none of our young players for the last 6 years maybe have actually had a proper chance in our team. If we can never drop/ bring in youth players as you suggest then we’ll never have a youth player as a regular starter.
Sometimes when they are talented enough you just need to give them a start or more minutes. Ie trust them. Or more like foden will leave
Pep stated that he did everything in his power to persuade him to stay,including offering him a wage way beyond his experience/status deserved.
Yes, and Sancho showed that he cares more about his career progression than his wage packet by moving to Dortmund - a club with a strong recent history of playing and developing youngsters.
Losing Sancho is a symptom of the failure of City to integrate academy players in the first team. If we want that symptom to go away (as the enormous wages Sancho was offered would suggest we do), then we need to fix that failure. We're making some inroads with Foden, but I fear Diaz will be off too.
Thats Sancho's choice though as has been explained.We cant just start including 17 yr old kids because they otherwise threaten to go elsewhere.Foden has chosen to stay and he is being integrated correctly and its paying off.
Ive said it before,but we arent Everton or even a Dortmund....this club has the worlds best players in its matchday squad,any kid has to be a worldy and he has to show the right attitude and an amount of patience.Thats how we roll now.
Pep stated that he did everything in his power to persuade him to stay,including offering him a wage way beyond his experience/status deserved.
Sancho took a gamble and it looks like its paying off for him, but other players could take the same gamble and never get back to a club at our level.foden is gambling the other way by staying and working his way slowly into our team Sancho could have taken the same route. There isn't a right or wrong players have to decide for themselves hopefully with good advice.Thats Sancho's choice though as has been explained.We cant just start including 17 yr old kids because they otherwise threaten to go elsewhere.Foden has chosen to stay and he is being integrated correctly and its paying off.
Ive said it before,but we arent Everton or even a Dortmund....this club has the worlds best players in its matchday squad,any kid has to be a worldy and he has to show the right attitude and an amount of patience.Thats how we roll now.
We will definitely lose others,but we will get money and we'll include clauses.And again, I don't think Sancho should have been given assurances of game time.
But he's left because others who deserved chances didn't get them and he didn't want to join that roster.
He's gone and there are other fish in the sea, but we'll lose them too unless we start to integrate some kids.
That statement just underlines why we lost Sanchi.Thats Sancho's choice though as has been explained.We cant just start including 17 yr old kids because they otherwise threaten to go elsewhere.Foden has chosen to stay and he is being integrated correctly and its paying off.
Ive said it before,but we arent Everton or even a Dortmund....this club has the worlds best players in its matchday squad,any kid has to be a worldy and he has to show the right attitude and an amount of patience.Thats how we roll now.