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Mainly because of the way they are taught to coach & play football imo. Look how happy Sam is after watching 11 statues against ten men. He thinks Rooney was brilliant.
Most academies are still more interested in winning trophies & producing 6 footers even now. But there is a lot more football played than there was ten years ago & City are at the top. You look at Deli Ali & Lallana & they are being talked about as being really clever just for running about near the box & not falling over.
I think the foreign kids are helping raise the standards of the English. Some of our best kids coming tgrough will be English but play like Argentinians or Spaniards.
This and the English attitude. Some of them them are on 5 grand a week at 16 and think they've made it. Im sure one of our academy coaches alluded to the difference in attitudes at City citing the foreign lads are working together both educationally and footballingly 24/7 whilst our English players just turned up for training and matches showing off their clothes etc.