The Roma match has convinced me...

[BLUEPUGH]

SONG FOR NATCHO.....NO BRAINER?

 

[This and only this]

Garcia, Lopes, Nacho, Denayer have a great chance of being promoted. Anyone know when an announcement will be made with regards to this?

I've said this on a few threads already but the OS has referred to Lopes and Denayer as first team members more than once in their daily city on tour blog posts. So, for want of an official announcement, they are first team members.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

No of fans at pre season games / face book likes etc etc. This sort of rubbish needs to be taken in context. The commercial standing of club is a means to an end. We dont get drawn in to football and suppoorting a club to enjoy watching the revenues roll in, we do it to watch the team play the game. Commercial revenue supports investment in the team and that is all. I couldn't give a toss if 1m or 100m follow us on facebook.

 

[Project]

No of fans at pre season games / face book likes etc etc. This sort of rubbish needs to be taken in context. The commercial standing of club is a means to an end. We dont get drawn in to football and suppoorting a club to enjoy watching the revenues roll in, we do it to watch the team play the game. Commercial revenue supports investment in the team and that is all. I couldn't give a toss if 1m or 100m follow us on facebook.

So, everything then?

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Barker imo has more game changing abiliy than any of the others barring perhaps Iheanacho, but he wasn't showing enough commitment in that 2nd half. Whether that's down to tiredness or something else I don't know, but I hope it's not just down to an inability to push himself hard enough, as that would be a terrible waste.

He has the talent to open up a team like Roma & the pace to cope with any of their runners, but only showed very small glimpses of it. I hope he has the passion to go with his talent because he could be very special indeed.

Like everyone else, I desperately want Barker to succeed, but game by game, he seems to be morphing into Wladimir Weiss, who was just as prolific at youth level, but too often flirted into games, rather than taking them by the scruff of the neck.

 

[SilverFox2]

No of fans at pre season games / face book likes etc etc. This sort of rubbish needs to be taken in context. The commercial standing of club is a means to an end. We dont get drawn in to football and suppoorting a club to enjoy watching the revenues roll in, we do it to watch the team play the game. Commercial revenue supports investment in the team and that is all. I couldn't give a toss if 1m or 100m follow us on facebook.

Frankly I feel you have got it the wrong way round at least as far as ADUG are concerned.

As a supporter you are correct and perhaps we are indifferent to whether Indonesia and China has a City base that will buy City produce but our owners are an investment company and they are paid to do exactly that by our owner. That is why they have invested with a business plan providing cash for infrastructure and a global investment that will bring rich rewards for our owner.
He is not doing this as a hobby but he does want us to be the best so from time to time will invest in new players to augment his world class Academy buildings which are starting to produce cash saving results.

Other PL owners see their investment differently and see their team as the end result that just needs a bit of player investment to maintain their god given right to share in the global expansion of football.

Reference to our global fan base expansion is vital to providing revenue to enable our brilliant business plan to continue profitability. Surely measuring this by whatever method is something that our owners do all the time to ensure the funds are self sustaining.

 

[waspish]

Like everyone else, I desperately want Barker to succeed, but game by game, he seems to be morphing into Wladimir Weiss, who was just as prolific at youth level, but too often flirted into games, rather than taking them by the scruff of the neck.

What he should be concentrating on this season with the youth team is his work of the ball and positional play of the ball, it's up to the coaching staff to set him these targets in how he can improve.. on the ball he looks a really good player

 

[leighton]

I think 2 of the lads will make the break into the first team sadly for Lopes with competition for places it makes things a lot harder for him. Also if we get our other targets it makes me think we might be loaning him out come the end of the window. As for Jason he looked good when he came on and done well should have some game time in the cup competitions and some league games with injuries if Jason plays 10 to 20 games this season it is a great season for him. Keli well he is in the same books as Jason hopefully Dzeko leaves and he will get some games in the cup and league this season looks good so far might over take Bony as second choice by the end of the season if he progresses well.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

What he should be concentrating on this season with the youth team is his work of the ball and positional play of the ball, it's up to the coaching staff to set him these targets in how he can improve.. on the ball he looks a really good player

I agree that he looks a good player, but the one thing that history proves is that talent isn't necessarily enough.

Sometimes you need that natural commitment, drive, determination, and occasional nastiness, to stamp your mark on the game.
For example, I could name dozens of more talented players than Danny Mills, who had long since disappeared by the time he was representing England.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I think 2 of the lads will make the break into the first team sadly for Lopes with competition for places it makes things a lot harder for him. Also if we get our other targets it makes me think we might be loaning him out come the end of the window. As for Jason he looked good when he came on and done well should have some game time in the cup competitions and some league games with injuries if Jason plays 10 to 20 games this season it is a great season for him. Keli well he is in the same books as Jason hopefully Dzeko leaves and he will get some games in the cup and league this season looks good so far might over take Bony as second choice by the end of the season if he progresses well.

It could go either way, but when predicting, I always hark back to the players from the 1986 Youth Cup Final when City beat United.

I went to both legs, and it's interesting to compare our original observations with how things eventually developed.
Redmond had already made his City debut, but it was widely observed that Hinchcliffe had the most potential. Moulden's schoolboy achievements had given him the most media attention, whereas Brightwell tended to be mentioned more, in the context of his famous Olympian parents, than his ability to play in more than one position.

Nowadays we tend to remember Paul Lake as the future England Captain, but it was only in the immediate seasons after the Final when he grew in stature.

We also had a giant speedy right winger, whose speciality was to charge down the right wing, before slicing his cross into the North Stand.

Make no mistake, if Bluemoon had been around in 1986, nobody would have dared predict that David White would be the first City youngster to play for England.