With recent transfers between CFG, it’s got me thinking about the bigger picture. This is all purely hypothetical as I’ve not read or heard anything in depth about the ‘project’.
So, the 1st thing we did was buy a load of top players to establish ourselves as a top European team.
The 2nd thing we did was to ensure that we have the best possible facilities for youngsters to develop not only from a football but also a personal level with St Bede’s. This way we attract the best youth Mancunian/UK talent/Global.
The next thing we are about to embark upon (Pep), is to give youngsters a clear progression to the first team, hence giving the best talent even more reason to join the ranks of and stay with God’s Own Club remaining as patient as they need to.
We have already bought other clubs around the world, which I foresee working on a number of levels now and in the future.
Firstly, it can potentially give our young players experience of senior football via loans. This puts the young players in a position where player’s lively hoods are on the line and every game means something, which is sadly lacking for those players between the ages of 19-21 (ish) with the current league structure and structure of academies. I think I’d advocate youth teams playing in lower divisions, to gain the experience and to grow as players, which I don’t ever see happening. Therefore we should have a competitive advantage on developing youngsters.
You may well think that other clubs, eg Chelsea, already loan loads of young players out to clubs to help develop them, but this is where our plan becomes a step above the rest. All of these clubs are part of CFG, so, I’d hope that the long term goal is to have ALL teams playing a similar ‘brand’ (awful word) of football. We could also loan a number of players out to the same club, so they continue their development TOGETHER in senior football.
Secondly, the vast majority of top players end up in Europe (along with some not so top players), so if we have clubs in other parts of the world and show a clear progression from any CFG club to Europe via City….ala Aaron Mooy, then this makes our sister clubs a more attractive proposition for players who have aspirations to play in Europe. Could this potentially mean that the majority of top players in the respective leagues which CFG clubs play in will want to join them, prior to being shipped off to Europe, thus making CFG Clubs the dominant force in their country and squaring the circle so to speak?
Even if these players never play for City’s 1st team, we will no doubt make small profits on the majority of these players and the money will also NEVER leave CFG books, it will just get moved from A-B within the group until profit is made on the said player when sold outside of the group. I see this as a visionary and an incredibly clever business strategy for football.
I’d actually hazard a guess that the utopia of this business model is for CFG to produce enough players of the right quality to only very rarely have to buy from outside of the CFG. What I mean by that is that maybe some of our young players will go in the opposite direction to some of our sister club’s players if they aren’t quite up to the grade of what we will need, giving young players a great opportunity to continue their football education in say the USA. So hopefully we should be able to give the quite a number of players in our academy a career path to professional football which suits their level. Again making us a more attractive option to join as a kid.
I could’ve just posted the future is blue but thought I’d share my thoughts. Anyone who bothered to read them & has some factual info I'd be interested to hear it.
So, the 1st thing we did was buy a load of top players to establish ourselves as a top European team.
The 2nd thing we did was to ensure that we have the best possible facilities for youngsters to develop not only from a football but also a personal level with St Bede’s. This way we attract the best youth Mancunian/UK talent/Global.
The next thing we are about to embark upon (Pep), is to give youngsters a clear progression to the first team, hence giving the best talent even more reason to join the ranks of and stay with God’s Own Club remaining as patient as they need to.
We have already bought other clubs around the world, which I foresee working on a number of levels now and in the future.
Firstly, it can potentially give our young players experience of senior football via loans. This puts the young players in a position where player’s lively hoods are on the line and every game means something, which is sadly lacking for those players between the ages of 19-21 (ish) with the current league structure and structure of academies. I think I’d advocate youth teams playing in lower divisions, to gain the experience and to grow as players, which I don’t ever see happening. Therefore we should have a competitive advantage on developing youngsters.
You may well think that other clubs, eg Chelsea, already loan loads of young players out to clubs to help develop them, but this is where our plan becomes a step above the rest. All of these clubs are part of CFG, so, I’d hope that the long term goal is to have ALL teams playing a similar ‘brand’ (awful word) of football. We could also loan a number of players out to the same club, so they continue their development TOGETHER in senior football.
Secondly, the vast majority of top players end up in Europe (along with some not so top players), so if we have clubs in other parts of the world and show a clear progression from any CFG club to Europe via City….ala Aaron Mooy, then this makes our sister clubs a more attractive proposition for players who have aspirations to play in Europe. Could this potentially mean that the majority of top players in the respective leagues which CFG clubs play in will want to join them, prior to being shipped off to Europe, thus making CFG Clubs the dominant force in their country and squaring the circle so to speak?
Even if these players never play for City’s 1st team, we will no doubt make small profits on the majority of these players and the money will also NEVER leave CFG books, it will just get moved from A-B within the group until profit is made on the said player when sold outside of the group. I see this as a visionary and an incredibly clever business strategy for football.
I’d actually hazard a guess that the utopia of this business model is for CFG to produce enough players of the right quality to only very rarely have to buy from outside of the CFG. What I mean by that is that maybe some of our young players will go in the opposite direction to some of our sister club’s players if they aren’t quite up to the grade of what we will need, giving young players a great opportunity to continue their football education in say the USA. So hopefully we should be able to give the quite a number of players in our academy a career path to professional football which suits their level. Again making us a more attractive option to join as a kid.
I could’ve just posted the future is blue but thought I’d share my thoughts. Anyone who bothered to read them & has some factual info I'd be interested to hear it.