Meeting Home Grown 8 including 4 trained at club

[Mancini Manus Domini]

Kasper Schmeichel has spent 5 years at City before the age of 21 so would count as 'club grown.' He's currently out of contract so there would be no fee involved. So why not offer him a very lucrative two year deal?

Signed a new contract with Leicester City yesterday.

Bugger.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Club trained- out there.
Sturridge
Ireland
Trippier
Kasper
Others?

We are not going to buy back players. We will just fill the slots with the likes of Huws, Lopes, Lawler etc

 

[kun]

Club trained- out there.
Sturridge
Ireland
Trippier
Kasper
Others?

A couple of keepers, Westwood and Hennessey and we could possibly try to take back Joan Roman and Denis Suarez from Barca but it would be difficult. Abdul Razak's career seems to have stalled and is a free agent, Vladi Weiss is now playing in Qatar, Hallam Hope is doing pretty well at Bury, BWP is playing in the U.S. and Onuoha and SWP are still going strong at QPR but there's really not that much quality out there tbh. Better sicking with the young lads in all honesty.

 

[Hart of the Matter]

Club trained- out there.
Sturridge
Ireland
Trippier
Kasper
Others?

A couple of keepers, Westwood and Hennessey and we could possibly try to take back Joan Roman and Denis Suarez from Barca but it would be difficult. Abdul Razak's career seems to have stalled and is a free agent, Vladi Weiss is now playing in Qatar, Hallam Hope is doing pretty well at Bury, BWP is playing in the U.S. and Onuoha and SWP are still going strong at QPR but there's really not that much quality out there tbh. Better sicking with the young lads in all honesty.

Great update. Thanks. No one we could really use. Kasper would have been cool but too much crap under the bridge between him/his dad and us. Signed new contract yesterday anyway.

Richards looks like he is stirring it on Twitter and sucking up to Arsenal. Leaves Boyata as only Club trained. A list is looking like 18 rather than 21.

 

[Rammyblues]

Put two academy keepers in with Joe Hart and just with Boyata that is back to 20.

 

[Barry's left peg]

Club trained- out there.
Sturridge
Ireland
Trippier
Kasper
Others?

A couple of keepers, Westwood and Hennessey and we could possibly try to take back Joan Roman and Denis Suarez from Barca but it would be difficult. Abdul Razak's career seems to have stalled and is a free agent, Vladi Weiss is now playing in Qatar, Hallam Hope is doing pretty well at Bury, BWP is playing in the U.S. and Onuoha and SWP are still going strong at QPR but there's really not that much quality out there tbh. Better sicking with the young lads in all honesty.

Hallam Hope came through Everton's academy

 

[Deleted member 58619]

It's going to be very interesting seeing how City deal with this in the upcoming transfer windows. As things currently stand we have the following homegrown players in our first team squad.

Wright, Milner, Hart, Clichy, Rodwell, and Richards.

Then from the youth teams there.

Lopes, Rekik, Boyata, and potentially Huws.

However ... if we were to lose Richards and Rodwell it leaves us in a precarious position. Rodwell and Richards are both players who let the squad down this season due to injuries/performances and they need to be replaced with players who can have more of an impact, therefore the idea of moving one of our EDS youngsters up to take their squad positions is IMO unworkable.

That means that if we replace them both with 'foreign' players we will need to name 4 young players in our first team squad. That means a squad of no more than 21 senior players. The way I see it 20 of those 21 players would be (including the English players)

Hart, Wright, Pants, Zaba, MDM, Kompany, Kolarov, Clichy, Milner, Nasri, Silva, Garcia, Fernandinho, Yaya, Jovetic, Aguero, Dzeko, Negredo, Navas, Nastasic

That leaves room for only one player to come in in place of Rodwell, Lescott, and Richards which isn't going to work. Particularly if the deals for Sagna, Fernando, and Mangala are done. Hypothetically if you add those three to the squad then our homegrown quota problem becomes much more pronounced because adding those three gives us a first team squad of 23 players (without club trained players).

This is all before the prospect of a reduced squad size due to FFP sanctions which would make the numbers above even more problematic for that competition.

Personally I'm baffled as to why i these circumstances we're pursuing Fernando quite so hard. I'm not saying he's not a good player, but we need homegrown players who are good enough to play in the first team otherwise we'll fall foul of the PL and CL squad rules.

Agreed we should be looking for top home grown options

Homegrown keeper (Marshall, Ruddy) Fabregas, Pogba, Barkley and Coleman would all be excellent options.

 

[BigOscar]

Might it be that we have to end up selling one of Dzeko or Negredo and keep Guidetti to be the 4th striker, just to accomodate other foreign players? 4 foreign strikers is possibly a bit of a stretch if we are only allowed to register 13 foreign players in the CL? (has that been confirmed btw? That the 8 HG still apply with our 21 man CL squad?)

 

[not my fault!]

Might it be that we have to end up selling one of Dzeko or Negredo and keep Guidetti to be the 4th striker, just to accomodate other foreign players? 4 foreign strikers is possibly a bit of a stretch if we are only allowed to register 13 foreign players in the CL? (has that been confirmed btw? That the 8 HG still apply with our 21 man CL squad?)

No mention at all in City's statement or Uefa's sanctions regarding the homegrown/English/Foreign quota, everyone is just assuming.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Look - we've got 13 foreign players, all of whom are top class.

We've got Hart, Clichy, Milner as association trained.

Then we've got Huws, Lopes, Boyata, Rekik as club trained who we can name on the A-list. Nastasic now qualifies for the B-List so he's in as well.

We need one more home grown player, which could be Wright/Johansen or someone else we've bought in. We only need to name 18 players for each game and can only play 14. We'll be OK.