Jadon Sancho

Media has protrayed Sancho as a failure of City's Academy to develop him to the standard required by us.
What we as supporters don't quite understand is the Academy is a business model (as with other top clubs) that operates within our structure to develop young talented players into professional footballers. The Academy will be expected to make a profit and that includes players leaving on a regular basis, City will only keep the very very best of these and if Sancho had been at that level then he would have been made an offer he could not have been able to turn down.
I agree some players will grow to be fantastic players as they mature and Sancho may be one, but we must seperate the Academy from being a feeder team for city and nothing less, it is a business that we have first pick of and before long the league will be littered with ex city academy players because the Academy only invested in the very best to start with.
If Sancho leaving city is the only thing the press can beat us with then we must be doing well enough everywhere else.
 
Neil francis said:
Media has protrayed Sancho as a failure of City's Academy to develop him to the standard required by us.
What we as supporters don't quite understand is the Academy is a business model (as with other top clubs) that operates within our structure to develop young talented players into professional footballers. The Academy will be expected to make a profit and that includes players leaving on a regular basis, City will only keep the very very best of these and if Sancho had been at that level then he would have been made an offer he could not have been able to turn down.
I agree some players will grow to be fantastic players as they mature and Sancho may be one, but we must seperate the Academy from being a feeder team for city and nothing less, it is a business that we have first pick of and before long the league will be littered with ex city academy players because the Academy only invested in the very best to start with.
If Sancho leaving city is the only thing the press can beat us with then we must be doing well enough everywhere else.
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He was at that level & any coach saying he wasn't, is a clown.

We wouldn't make such an offer, because everyone would demand it.

The way to keep future players like Sancho, is to rebuild our reputation for giving young players a chance. A reputation we deservedly held, when the academy was built, at Platt Lane.
 
Neville Kneville said:
He was at that level & any coach saying he wasn't, is a clown.

We wouldn't make such an offer, because everyone would demand it.

The way to keep future players like Sancho, is to rebuild our reputation for giving young players a chance. A reputation we deservedly held, when the academy was built, at Platt Lane.
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Dropping the intention to get someone like Alexis and presenting Sancho and his entourage with a believable path to the First XI assuming certain criteria are met may well have gone some way to appeasing the situation.
 
razman said:


Yes , the source isn't the greatest - but have read in a few other places as well
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Of course they are its all about getting one over there neighbours just like them gazumping us for players we are after! Its small time and how far they have dropped as a club.
 
razman said:


Yes , the source isn't the greatest - but have read in a few other places as well
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Yeah, let's see him play over here on a cold winters evening in Burnley.........
 
Neville Kneville said:
He was at that level & any coach saying he wasn't, is a clown.

We wouldn't make such an offer, because everyone would demand it.

The way to keep future players like Sancho, is to rebuild our reputation for giving young players a chance. A reputation we deservedly held, when the academy was built, at Platt Lane.
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I'm sure we would give our youth team players a chance if they develop sufficiently and acquire the right physique which comes with age but that isn't going to happen at 17 and at any club in the EPL. The demands are too great. The upshot of it all is that Sancho wanted to go and would not sign a new contract even when begged to by the game's best coach so don't give me that rubbish about reverting to Platt Lane methods. Other than the unlucky Paul Lake, we didn't produce any players who may have gone on to be World Class, so don't keep harping on about that. As an aside, there was a good article [for once] in the MEN a few days ago which was about this "giving the kids a chance" and it highlighted the fabled Class of 92, and the ages of that squad when they made their debuts, and the number of appearances they had made by the time they had reached Phil Foden's present age. Despite all the media hatred of City and their youth policy, it turns out that young Phil is doing rather nicely but we don't win any laurels for that.
 
I'm no cynic but... said:
I'm sure we would give our youth team players a chance if they develop sufficiently and acquire the right physique which comes with age but that isn't going to happen at 17 and at any club in the EPL. The demands are too great. The upshot of it all is that Sancho wanted to go and would not sign a new contract even when begged to by the game's best coach so don't give me that rubbish about reverting to Platt Lane methods. Other than the unlucky Paul Lake, we didn't produce any players who may have gone on to be World Class, so don't keep harping on about that. As an aside, there was a good article [for once] in the MEN a few days ago which was about this "giving the kids a chance" and it highlighted the fabled Class of 92, and the ages of that squad when they made their debuts, and the number of appearances they had made by the time they had reached Phil Foden's present age. Despite all the media hatred of City and their youth policy, it turns out that young Phil is doing rather nicely but we don't win any laurels for that.
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We have produced plenty of Premier League standard players & the only difference is that we used to play them more.

These discussions always end up.the same way, with people coming on refusing to admit there is a middle ground between starting kids every week, which is very difficult & giving them more game time than we typically do, which is easy.

And that every player has to be world class, in order to be useful, which they don't.

And that players don't notice, when kids older than them who are playing brilliantly, don't even get 5 mins on the pitch.

It makes everything nice & comfortable, so we can ignore it.
 
Couldn’t give a flying fuck about sancho, he didn’t want to stay with us so he’s fucking dead to me, if he turns out to be world class then hey ho england get the benefit, where would he be at city now? keeping the bench warm thats where
 
He's getting a bit of criticism from Dortmund people in the press at the moment. Wonder if that's in advance of an impending move.
 
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