Rony Lopes

[Tricky_Trev]

The fact that Pellers doesn't seem to even know that we've sold him does seem to sum up his level of interest towards our young players so far.

I have to agree. I am not bothered about us selling Lopes. He didn't want to extend his contract, so we had no choice. I have come to terms with him moving on. But for Pellegrini to either not know, or not really care... well that's disappointing.

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

Indeed but the issue that nobody here is talking about is not so much losing Rekik, Lopes and Denayer which would be an incredible shame but not the end of the world. It's the fact that when the next 12 year old Messi is eventually discovered somewhere and every club is chasing him, his parents will look at our record and not see a club committed to bringing through young players and will see other clubs that offer all we do as well as this.

It isn't so much the problem of losing these players specifically, it's also the rather larger problem of being able to attract potentially world class young players into our Academy in the future.

Great point

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Why did we promote him to the first team only to get rid of him a few weeks later?

Probably a last-ditch attempt to convince him to sign a new deal, make him feel wanted etc

 

[cleavers]

Why did we promote him to the first team only to get rid of him a few weeks later?

Because they thought he was worth it ?

Sometimes an offer comes in that you can't refuse, and if he wasn't signing a new contract, maybe this was it ?

Its a shame because he's a good player, but he was still down the pecking order for a place in the team, its better for him that we let him go and play, and without the new contract signed he couldn't go on loan.

 

[abellwillring]

We paid 12m for Roberts and sold Lopes for 7.3m *facepalm*

£12m? That's a new one. I'd only heard £11m reported as the all in price with more knowledgable journalists saying £8-9m on the high end. We paid either £2m or £4m for Roberts initially.

In this case, we got £7.3m up front and there are surely additional clauses beyond that. Don't be the press and distort the facts to make us look worse.

 

[blueinsa]

If nothing else it finally gets rid of any doubts about mr anon the twitter bullshitter.

Best of luck to Lopes as well.

 

[SiMCFC]

From what i've heard this morning from a good source (City legend and has a grandson in the academy) it's the Otamendi signing that has pushed this move. Sounds daft but there is a fair bit of ill feeling because of how Jason Denayer has been 'pushed out'. Think we have fucked up here personally

 

[Neville Kneville]

From what i've heard this morning from a good source (City legend and has a grandson in the academy) it's the Otamendi signing that has pushed this move. Sounds daft but there is a fair bit of ill feeling because of how Jason Denayer has been 'pushed out'. Think we have fucked up here personally

I predicted that would likely cause a problem before we signed him.

 

[waspish]

This is the key point.

If Ronaldo was in our youth ranks at 18 he wouldn't get into our team and would never have ended up as one of the greatest players ever. We're hurting their development and thus they aren't becoming good enough.

Agree and a point i made earlier about if we would of got Sterling instead of Liverpool he wouldn't be the player he is now because he wouldn't of played the amount of games he did at Liverpool! Just don't understand why city dont get this?

 

[Damocles]

Official - not a loan, 5 year deal