Rony Lopes

[Clevers]

Oh please just sod off with that crap ffs. I absolutely fucking refuse to have peope start putting me in that catagory & will not sit here & accept it, so all my posts becone tarred with that fucking shite. Enough.

I think Pellegrini is the best manager we've ever had & he pisses on Mancini etc

And so far, he is utter shite with bringing through kids etc. The two have no connection.

Stop it.

Or maybe he is realistic based on a career in football at the top level.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Or maybe he is realistic based on a career in football at the top level.

Yeah because no other managers have ever been able to do it, so he is just following tradition. When has anyone ever heard of clubs bringing players through & winning stuff ? Of course that's it, he's basing it on a career in football.

 

[PragueBlue]

He's doing what he considers best and I for one agree with him. I'd send all our most promising youngsters on loan for a year or two and see if they can prove themselves there before trying to integrate them into the first team. There seems a ridiculous rush to get 18/19 year olds into the squad/team and I'm not sure why that is. I personally couldn't care less if a player came through the academy or we bought him.

 

[bumbleblue]

I don't understand the absolute necessity to get the academy breakthrough right now, it is clearly a long term ambition. Kaldoon was clear that we wanted to promote young talent but not at the expense of the success of the first team. That seems exactly right to me. I also think that we have to trust that MP and the DOF discuss these things regularly it is surely part of their role. The young lads will be introduced when and if the time is right not to lose a game or batter their confidence , only their day to day managers are in a place to make that call and even then a mistake my happen. When the time is right they will play.

 

[Clevers]

Yeah because no other managers have ever been able to do it, so he is just following tradition. When has anyone ever heard of clubs bringing players through & winning stuff ? Of course that's it, he's basing it on a career in football.

How many at the very top of Premier league have brought academy players through? (Except the class of 92).

 

[Neville Kneville]

How many at the very top of Premier league have brought academy players through? (Except the class of 92).

Pretty much all of them, a lot, although the method is often to sign/steal them from others academies first. But they all do it bar us & Chelsea. Iheancho might be our first since the takeover but he's barely been an academy player.

 

[twosips]

Pretty much all of them, a lot, although the method is often to sign/steal them from others academies first. But they all do it bar us & Chelsea. Iheancho might be our first since the takeover but he's barely been an academy player.

Even though I agree he won't be an academy player, it is nice that Iheanacho has actually played, and contributed, a fair bit in the u18s & EDS before being used in the first team.

 

[Rolee]

Have any more details emerged regarding this deal? Is there a sell-on clause? Buy-back clause etc.?

 

[Damocles]

KDB and Otamendi? or Lopes and Denayer? hmmmm....it's a toughie.....

It's a bollocks question, presuming and either-or choice. We could have had both

 

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