The fascination with buying home grown players is because every club needs them - there's a quota. We currently meet this quota, but that doesn't mean we can stop buying English players. We need to ensure we have a conveyor belt of them. It's no good waiting until some of the current ones leave before going on a mass panic spree for 4 or 5 Englishmen. So personally, i'd have loved to see us go for Phil Jones. SWP is leaving. Barry is getting on a bit. AJ will be even more of a bit part player next season - how happy will he be? Does Given count as home grown? If so, he could be leaving too. We need to be constantly searching for the best young English players, and bringing them into the club.OrigamiNinja said:dannyboy91uk said:I have to say I am a bit disappointed with the news about Phil Jones to Man United. I would have thought that we would try our best to bring in young British players to Man City. All people seem to be bothered about on this forum are the world-class names and the rest of the world, no consideration of the British prospects whatsoever, most of them may not be good, some of them may not be at the standard that you all want yet a British core makes the team appear local and fighters. We have Joe Hart and Micah Richards one player whom everyone was criticising this time last year, the rest of the youngish ones are linked away from our club in the news articles, so I would have thought we would have been in for players like Phil Jones but obviously not. At the end of the day I will be happy with whoever we get, but I would prefer some good British youngsters who can develop at our team, become a success and play regularly sometime in the near future. We seem to be often linked with Gary Cahill 6 or 7 years older than Phil Jones and people don't rate him either, I don't understand how you can come to the conclusion that he isn't good enough yet other top clubs in the division are linked with him too.
Since when have England been any good?
We have half a dozen or so England players in our squad now and the only one who is any good on a regular basis is Hart!
Lescott has had a good half a season.
Barry, Milner, SWP, AJ all average with the odd belter of a game thrown in.
I really dont see what the fascination is with buying home grown players. We have spent a fortune on them and hardly any have proven to be astute signings.
Give me a Kompany, Zabaleta, NDJ, Silva etc any day of the week!
Tricky_Trev said:The fascination with buying home grown players is because every club needs them - there's a quota. We currently meet this quota, but that doesn't mean we can stop buying English players. We need to ensure we have a conveyor belt of them. It's no good waiting until some of the current ones leave before going on a mass panic spree for 4 or 5 Englishmen. So personally, i'd have loved to see us go for Phil Jones. SWP is leaving. Barry is getting on a bit. AJ will be even more of a bit part player next season - how happy will he be? Does Given count as home grown? If so, he could be leaving too. We need to be constantly searching for the best young English players, and bringing them into the club.OrigamiNinja said:dannyboy91uk said:I have to say I am a bit disappointed with the news about Phil Jones to Man United. I would have thought that we would try our best to bring in young British players to Man City. All people seem to be bothered about on this forum are the world-class names and the rest of the world, no consideration of the British prospects whatsoever, most of them may not be good, some of them may not be at the standard that you all want yet a British core makes the team appear local and fighters. We have Joe Hart and Micah Richards one player whom everyone was criticising this time last year, the rest of the youngish ones are linked away from our club in the news articles, so I would have thought we would have been in for players like Phil Jones but obviously not. At the end of the day I will be happy with whoever we get, but I would prefer some good British youngsters who can develop at our team, become a success and play regularly sometime in the near future. We seem to be often linked with Gary Cahill 6 or 7 years older than Phil Jones and people don't rate him either, I don't understand how you can come to the conclusion that he isn't good enough yet other top clubs in the division are linked with him too.
Since when have England been any good?
We have half a dozen or so England players in our squad now and the only one who is any good on a regular basis is Hart!
Lescott has had a good half a season.
Barry, Milner, SWP, AJ all average with the odd belter of a game thrown in.
I really dont see what the fascination is with buying home grown players. We have spent a fortune on them and hardly any have proven to be astute signings.
Give me a Kompany, Zabaleta, NDJ, Silva etc any day of the week!
LoveCity said:The rags have their future defence and front line sorted, once they replenish their midfield they'll be set for quite a long time.
LoveCity said:The rags have their future defence and front line sorted, once they replenish their midfield they'll be set for quite a long time.
Andouble said:Just because they'll be 'set' doesn't mean they'll be great.
LoveCity said:The rags have their future defence and front line sorted, once they replenish their midfield they'll be set for quite a long time.
Lancet Fluke said:citytill1die84 said:15m Haha I bet Boyata has a better career
I think Boyata looks good too but I'd take that bet.