Rony Lopes

[Neville Kneville]

Exactly. People keep saying he's never done anything for youth at City - who exactly was he supposed to be playing?

Denayer and Lopes were on loan - and they were brilliant loans whoch they came back from as much better players.


He arrived here, and there were no youth players even close to good enough. Now we have 3 who are good enough, he'll play them.

Even last season, when all three strikers were injured, his first decision was to play Pozo at striker. It didn't go so well so he reverted to Milner at false 9 - but his first instinct was to look to the EDS for a player.

He's got a 20+ year career which has consistently featured him throwing great youth players into his teams. Cazorla, Isco, Godin - he's made them big parts of his team at every single club he's been at (with the exception of real where he didn't get a chance).

People will look for any reason to be negative on here sometimes. He's gonna play all 3 of them, because they are good enough and he's a manager who likes youth.

You mean with the exception of Real, where he didn't need to.

 

[Neville Kneville]

completely agree with this. Lopez may or may not turn out to be a good player, but whilst he showed glimpses in a city shirt, he also looked to be lacking a little. which is of course fine in a youngster. i'd be a lot more confident about us playing denayer and or iheanacho. only my personal opinion of course.

That's exactly why you give these kids time on the field, so that they grow composure and confidence. Sometimes it takes kids quite a few games to settle down & start showing what they can do. Pellegrini would rather use 3 fullbacks on the bench last season than Brandon Barker. You're four up with 10 to go & you bring on fucking Kolarov. Just giving players the experience & a run out, could give them the confidence to push on this season, but he did fuck all, not even in cup games, where he played the same tired, half arsed bunch who could barely manage a jog, ironically humilliated by Newcastle reserves.

 

[celf]

Khaldoon said in his interview that there would be no compromise on the first team, a young player will only play if he can improve the starting 11, is lopes better than nasri or silva ?

Answer NO

Even though I'm no nasri fan.

If the so called big players are fit they will always start above the youngsters.

Personally I'd like to see them blooded and would love to see denayer lopes and keletchi start at WBA in place of Mangala bony and nasri.

 

[BLUEPUGH]

lets face it, pelle wont play him. Sell the lad he deserves to be playing

 

[uwe rosler 28]

lets face it, pelle wont play him. Sell the lad he deserves to be playing

Who gave him his debut? Rony has a massive future at the club he won't be getting sold anytime soon!

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

lets face it, pelle wont play him. Sell the lad he deserves to be playing

Lopes will be at City longer than Pellegrini will be.

 

[celf]

He will go if he doesn't get any game time

 

[domalino]

You mean with the exception of Real, where he didn't need to.

With the exception of Real where he didn't get a chance - and he still tried.

He wanted to play Negredo - but Perez bought Benzema and then Ronaldo, which meant there was absolutely no room for him. He did bring through Marcelo, who was 21 at the time, and very much a fringe player, made him a starter. And he brought Ezekiel Garay (21 at the time) back from loan and made him a regular player.

His youth record is fantastic. A couple of season here when no academy players were ready to play in the senior team doesn't change that.

 

[SuperBlu]

Who gave him his debut? Rony has a massive future at the club he won't be getting sold anytime soon!

To have massive future he needs to play regularly.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

To have massive future he needs to play regularly.

I disagree yes he needs game time but he doesn't need burning out! More importantly he needs to be around the world class players in our squad learning!