Sunday Supplement

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didn't think it was that bad to be honest

plenty of positives apart from custis on his usual blinkered not bringing english players into the first team

even nasri got backed for his honesty

totally lacking an agenda today i'm afraid
 
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Evidence of Britishness is all to evident if they want to see how good these players are. That favoured cesspit of the Swamp last year had a British Manager a mostly British back room staff, more british players than foreign and with all that wealth of talent on view including the white pele they finished 7th. Whereas we with more foreign players than any other team in Europe(17 like everyone else), with a foreign manager, not even European and a foreign back room staff apart from Kiddo waltzes away to a second prem title and COC cup. And it was an Englishman the bestest player in all Christendom who slips up to allow a johnny foreigner to give Chelsea the win at Candlepool.

Wankers the lot of them, their hatred is music to my ears.
 
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Winter seemed to be the only one who was prepared to acknowledge the irony in Southampton having to replace all their self made English players with foreign replacements. It obviously didn't fit into the agenda for Wallace or Custis to accept that English players are grossly overpriced. Wallace still seems to think that Southampton are the same two bit, hand to mouth operation they were years ago when the reality is their owner is seriously wealthy, she just has no desire to invest in a football team.
 
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tonea2003 said:
totally lacking an agenda today i'm afraid....
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Did use notice Ashton waving three different papers using the same "Stupid/Nasty Nasri" headline at the start of the programme by any chance?
(or maybe him plugging his own "Hart Dropped" story from the Mail)
 
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George Hannah said:
tonea2003 said:
totally lacking an agenda today i'm afraid....
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Did use notice Ashton waving three different papers using the same "Stupid/Nasty Nasri" headline at the start of the programme by any chance?
(or maybe him plugging his own "Hart Dropped" story from the Mail)
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did you not notice ashton saying city did not get the credit they deserved
nor winter praising "again" our academy
or all of them saying how refreshing nasri was for saying how it is
 
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The Light Was Yellow said:
The seeds of talent are beginning to germinate. Last season, City’s Under 11s and Under 14s were national champions and the Under 18 side were northern league winners. Under Vieira, an Under 19 side reached the quarter-final of the UEFA Youth League. A 6-0 victory over Bayern Munich reverberated around Europe, with five English names on the team sheet.
Most are yet to be seen in the first team squad, something Vieira attributes to the ‘massive’ gap between youth competitions and the demands of elite football. It is why City are thought to remain receptive to discussions over B-teams in the lower tiers.
As the authorities prevaricate, City are single-minded in their aspiration and little encapsulates the journey from chip-fat to caviar quite like the money and dedication flowing into this academy.
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The results in the Youth do not matter as long as you do not get the transition into the professional team. Step by step. It should not matter for a team if one of 11 players is an 18-year-old. Maybe not in the biggest CL matches or against top opponents - but in other matches.

You mentioned that 6:0 victory against Bayern. One of the guys there - the son of Maurizio Gaudino - played in central midfield all preparation matches for Bayern and will do that again in the Super Cup match in an hour against Dortmund. He is 17 and what he still needs is a lot of physical strengths - but he apart from that acts on the pitch like somebody that is 10 years older. When the season really starts and Schweinsteiger and Thiago will be back he might not get much time to play anymore but he will get some.

A Höjbjerg with 18 was not playing that match but in the age bracket. He made his first Danish Cap in May playing watch dog against Zlatan - and really was great at it - and played in the starting formation of the Cup final against Dortmund. Same story with Green who scored his first World Cup goal.

Youth Work is not about results - not about teambuilding - but about developing that special kind of player that can make it. And then you need to give them possibilities. Nobody talks about throwing four of them in at one moment - playing youngsters in the first Cup rounds does not make it either as they are somehow playing with themselves. But it must be possible to build one in each year.
 
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