The Squad planning thread

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

All hypothetical of course but seeing how Harwood-Bellis has now been called into the England squad, Adarabioyo and Lavia and of course Palmer doing well at Chelsea, I can’t help wondering whether we are too quick to let these academy players leave.

think about how long it would take them to get that many minutes they have here. One full season elsewhere is about 3 seasons here at best under pep. most have to move/play at some point.

 

[K-Bo]

All hypothetical of course but seeing how Harwood-Bellis has now been called into the England squad, Adarabioyo and Lavia and of course Palmer doing well at Chelsea, I can’t help wondering whether we are too quick to let these academy players leave.

I’ve been feeling this for a while, generally get a ‘ how could we have known’ response but like I think city have essentially sold a possible golden generation without giving the vast majority a chance to win net spend trophies

Lavia and palmer look particularly bad I. Hindsight, there was enough of a hint they were quality and we binned one off for Kalvin Phillips and the other for doku. Not convinced either are better than the academy option

 

[citizen_maine]

All hypothetical of course but seeing how Harwood-Bellis has now been called into the England squad, Adarabioyo and Lavia and of course Palmer doing well at Chelsea, I can’t help wondering whether we are too quick to let these academy players leave.

The issue with having a top quality academy producing lots of quality players is that they can't all make it into the first team squad. We are bound to let some players go who go on to be top players. It's the nature of a top academy