WNRH said:LoveCity said:WNRH said:It's what he's insinuating though. I agree with him.
I don't, if we'd given up on youth we wouldn't be building the new academy and publicly saying we want to be a self-sustaining club. We wouldn't have bothered to send a delegation to watch Guidetti rip apart Ajax the other day. Also, Mancini wouldn't have bothered giving Razak, Rekik, or Suarez any minutes at all. I think it's sour grapes, we haven't given up on youth, the youth just has to be really good to have a prayer. And Veseli isn't, Rekik is which is why at the age of 16 he had two first team appearances.
We bought Suarez, Roman, Rekik, Asulin, Pozo, Lopez and we have countless england youth internationals to complement them. What have we done with them? Are we doing a Chelsea and stock piling any half decent youngster who is going through a purple patch to avoid anyone else getting them?
Hows Abdul Razak supposed to break through if there are no games for Mancini, Kidd and Platt to see him in.
I can understand where Veseli and his agent are coming from, we've had a bit of a problem at centre half recently and neither him nor the likes of Wabara have had any opportunities to show Mancini they are worthy of a place on the bench. Now you might say Wabara never cut it at Ipswich but maybe he was never match fit because he had no game time before he went there?
Damocles said:WNRH said:LoveCity said:I don't, if we'd given up on youth we wouldn't be building the new academy and publicly saying we want to be a self-sustaining club. We wouldn't have bothered to send a delegation to watch Guidetti rip apart Ajax the other day. Also, Mancini wouldn't have bothered giving Razak, Rekik, or Suarez any minutes at all. I think it's sour grapes, we haven't given up on youth, the youth just has to be really good to have a prayer. And Veseli isn't, Rekik is which is why at the age of 16 he had two first team appearances.
We bought Suarez, Roman, Rekik, Asulin, Pozo, Lopez and we have countless england youth internationals to complement them. What have we done with them? Are we doing a Chelsea and stock piling any half decent youngster who is going through a purple patch to avoid anyone else getting them?
Hows Abdul Razak supposed to break through if there are no games for Mancini, Kidd and Platt to see him in.
I can understand where Veseli and his agent are coming from, we've had a bit of a problem at centre half recently and neither him nor the likes of Wabara have had any opportunities to show Mancini they are worthy of a place on the bench. Now you might say Wabara never cut it at Ipswich but maybe he was never match fit because he had no game time before he went there?
We played Savic and had Rekik on the bench.
I will again remind everyone here that Mancini has given more City youth players debuts than any other manager in the past few decades. That means more than Stuart Pearce and Kevin Keegan.
And I'm not sure if you think reserves and academy people just sit around waiting to be called up to the first team, but they do have their own matches and league to keep fit/get noticed in.
Hough end i presume.Neil McNab said:Not fit to wipe the dog shit off Rekik's boots!
Joga Bonito said:How was he 9th choice CB? I'd choose Balotelli as a defender over him
lancs blue said:Joga Bonito said:How was he 9th choice CB? I'd choose Balotelli as a defender over him
Lol - I do wonder how many of the people bemoaning his departure have actually seen him play. I've no axe to grind with the lad except for his bitter tweets but if he plays in the PL for the rags I will either be amazed or PMSL at how low they've sunk.