Ted Hughes wrote:City most probably will find a number of top players, but that article is absolutely spot on imo.
It asks the question as to where our 'journeymen' are. We have produced a small number of players from the old academy who were borderline good enough to do a job for City, even now, but for the most part they are fucking basket cases, to add the the rapists muggers & wasters who have passed through without reaching the frst team regularly. Is it coincidence or have they lacked the right kind of guidance ?
But it points the way for the academy now in that as well as producing top players, we can also fill the gaps in the squad, with lads brought up through the ranks at City, who feel a bond with the club, & are willing to go the extra yard when asked.
We have quite a few lads who should attain that standard as a very minimum. The question is whether we try to bring them though at City, or dump them, then spend money filling those positions in the squad, without giving the homegrown players a crack first. We are seeing that very situation right now with Guidetti who could be dumped without playing a single game, with the blessing of many City fans, even though he has an absolutely fantastic scoring record. Not even worth a place on the bench & even half a chance, just get rid.
We have spent a lot of money on players who are no better than the rags' squad players & some who are much worse. For all the pisstaking, the job done over the years by OShea, Brown, Phil Neville, Fletcher, Wellbeck, is infinitely better than City have had from the likes of Savic, Nastasic, Boateng, Rodwell, Sinclair. That's about 60 million quid right there.
We should absolutely look to have two world class players for every position, but in reality, we have Clichy, Sagna, Kolarov, Demichelis, Navas, Sinclair, Nastasic pretty much all at a standard we should be able to at least equal, with academy players & I would say Fernando & Milner also come into that catagory & probably Zabba too tbh. None of them have better footballing ability than some of our academy players. If the kids can match them for physicality, intelligence & will to win, the football ability is there already. We should be able to make up a good percentage of the squad.
That should be priority 2 after trying to find the next Aguero, find a Navas, Clichy etc who can do a job & allow us to spend the big money on Messi MK II.
But we have to make the decision to at least try & use them.
Ted Hughes wrote:City most probably will find a number of top players, but that article is absolutely spot on imo.
It asks the question as to where our 'journeymen' are. We have produced a small number of players from the old academy who were borderline good enough to do a job for City, even now, but for the most part they are fucking basket cases, to add the the rapists muggers & wasters who have passed through without reaching the frst team regularly. Is it coincidence or have they lacked the right kind of guidance ?
But it points the way for the academy now in that as well as producing top players, we can also fill the gaps in the squad, with lads brought up through the ranks at City, who feel a bond with the club, & are willing to go the extra yard when asked.
We have quite a few lads who should attain that standard as a very minimum. The question is whether we try to bring them though at City, or dump them, then spend money filling those positions in the squad, without giving the homegrown players a crack first. We are seeing that very situation right now with Guidetti who could be dumped without playing a single game, with the blessing of many City fans, even though he has an absolutely fantastic scoring record. Not even worth a place on the bench & even half a chance, just get rid.
We have spent a lot of money on players who are no better than the rags' squad players & some who are much worse. For all the pisstaking, the job done over the years by OShea, Brown, Phil Neville, Fletcher, Wellbeck, is infinitely better than City have had from the likes of Savic, Nastasic, Boateng, Rodwell, Sinclair. That's about 60 million quid right there.
We should absolutely look to have two world class players for every position, but in reality, we have Clichy, Sagna, Kolarov, Demichelis, Navas, Sinclair, Nastasic pretty much all at a standard we should be able to at least equal, with academy players & I would say Fernando & Milner also come into that catagory & probably Zabba too tbh. None of them have better footballing ability than some of our academy players. If the kids can match them for physicality, intelligence & will to win, the football ability is there already. We should be able to make up a good percentage of the squad.
That should be priority 2 after trying to find the next Aguero, find a Navas, Clichy etc who can do a job & allow us to spend the big money on Messi MK II.
But we have to make the decision to at least try & use them.
twosips wrote:I'd say we'd want two for every position who were Champions League quality as opposed to fundamentally 'world class' as that's loosely defined.
mr_nool wrote:twosips wrote:I'd say we'd want two for every position who were Champions League quality as opposed to fundamentally 'world class' as that's loosely defined.
I agree on that and think that we already have that in our squad, with exceptions to Boyayayayayayata and Sinclair. The problem is that all our players under-preform in that competition.
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