Cocacolajojo wrote:I may be looking through blue tinted spectacles, but I feel we are in a much stronger position than Arsenal were, if we did find ourselves in that situation.
I'll try to expand on my reasoning behind that when I get a minute later.
Looking forward to reading it!
It's not going to be that exciting !
Ok remember this ?
http://talksport.com/magazine/features/ ... e-they-nowI watched that game with my head in my hands, despairing at how City were such a disjointed shambles & an Arsenal side built mainly from kids, totally outclassed us. Everyone talked of the future & how Arsenal would build their team from within, but when you look at the players they actually had coming though, they had a couple of stars & a bunch of no marks, who happened to play in a higher level football style than we were capable of.
At the same time, the Arsenal first team was reaching its end, with most of the top players about to move on.
They were right up their own arses believing all the bullshit, but meanwhile the rags & Chelsea were getting on with the job of winning stuff, & then a few years later, to Arsenal's horror, we arrived on the scene.
But look at those worldbeating kids they were relying on. You had Flamini, Van Persie & Fabregas, fair enough. But look at the rest;
JUSTIN HOYTE, PHILLIPE SENDEROS, JERMAINE PENNANT, SEB LARSSON , RYAN SMITH , ARTURO LUPOLI , DANIEL KARBASSIYOON, QUINCY OWUSU-ABEYIE, JOHAN DJOROU.
None of them are good enough to be squad players for us. And the ones who followed were no better on the whole. So they basically 'produced' 3 top players & several generations of fuck all. Then signed a few from Southampton etc.
I recon we have coming through, year after year of better players than that lot. & I also think we have a plethora of players who COULD reach the same level as Fabreagas etc, or maybe even better. (note: COULD) I also think we are much better coached now than Arsenal were then. That gap narrowed even before the Spaniards arrived. From being a bunch of kids running around headlessly whilst Arsenal's kids passed it, we became as good or better than them in possession & that happened a while back. A few seasons ago for example, Guidetti was way better by comparison than most of Arsenal's side, when we played them. Since then, it could be just down to a few years of us having vintage talent, but when I've seen Ciy in comparison to Arsenal kids in recent years, we have looked a whole level above as footballers & in style, (as we do v many teams whatever the result).
If there was ever going to be a Premier League team who could actually do what Arsenal THOUGHT they were going to do, I would say it's us.
We will almost certainly have to sign players, (I'm not convinced there's a Vinny coming through for instance, so we're not exactly solid at any age group) but I really fancy we will see a lot of home grown players in our first team squad in the next ten years, & we will be able to concentrate our spending on certain positions.
I doubt we will need to do what Arsenal tried to do, but I recon there's a chance it may happen anyway, just because of the sheer number of quality kids we have. I know this rarely happens, but it's almost impossible to imagine a bunch won't make it; there are just too many good ones at the club & more arriving all the time.
I recon we have more talented kids at the club now, than all the best kids in all the years I supported City pre takeover, put together (40 odd years worth). I can't even keep track of them. That doesn't mean all our teams will win every week but the talent is there; we just have to develop it correctly.
(And some are English!) There's an English lad in the U15s I think it is, ok anything could happen but to compare him with others I've seen over the years at the same age; fucking hell is all I can say.