The_Steve Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, VillaAlex said: we can't even sell our established internationals for a couple of million. I guess you can compare this to Chuk though. Although he was much more established. This whole thing stinks. City hoover up young talent and sell them for big profit to the likes of Southampton or Burnley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, VillaAlex said: we can't even sell our established internationals for a couple of million. I guess you can compare this to Chuk though. Although he was much more established. Southampton's director of football was the head of Man City's academy until January. They had their head of academy recruitment as the DoF last summer before he got poached by Chelsea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 13 minutes ago, The_Steve said: This whole thing stinks. City hoover up young talent and sell them for big profit to the likes of Southampton or Burnley. seriously you go on transfermarkt, soccerbase and world football transfer database and search for man citys transfer history and between them they don't pick up all their transfers, even wikipedia across their main page and their academy page is missing players that "play" for man city they must have anywhere between £150-200m worth of assets that they could flog at any given time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, VillaChris said: Wasn't Tishbola highly rated at the time? Bree was another and ironically did make the premier league eventually although he's regretting leaving Luton now. Not really. Even when we signed him no-one could understand why we'd spent that kind of money on him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, The_Steve said: This whole thing stinks. City hoover up young talent and sell them for big profit to the likes of Southampton or Burnley. Yeah, imagine signing a young player from Man City for somewhere in the region of £15m. Certainly something we would never do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, bobzy said: Yeah, imagine signing a young player from Man City for somewhere in the region of £15m. Certainly something we would never do. Douglas Luiz had about 80 senior yop flight appearances. Shea Charles has 14 with a majority playing for Northern Ireland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 minute ago, Zatman said: Douglas Luiz had about 80 senior yop flight appearances. Shea Charles has 14 with a majority playing for Northern Ireland So it doesn't count if they play games out on loan? James Trafford to Burnley isn't another example because he played a load of loan games rather than just being in Man City's U23 squad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 minute ago, bobzy said: So it doesn't count if they play games out on loan? James Trafford to Burnley isn't another example because he played a load of loan games rather than just being in Man City's U23 squad? Shea Charles has never went on loan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Just now, Zatman said: Shea Charles has never went on loan Correct - Douglas Luiz did. As did James Trafford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuwabatake Sanjuro Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Not really. Even when we signed him no-one could understand why we'd spent that kind of money on him. It was assumed that Steve Clarke had inside knowledge of his potential, unfortunately didn't unfold, not even when he brought him to Kilmarnock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, bobzy said: Yeah, imagine signing a young player from Man City for somewhere in the region of £15m. Certainly something we would never do. Agree in that it's not a stick to beat Southampton with but at the same time don't let that detract from city being up to no good They are signing a lot of youngsters with no intention of playing them, loaning them for a few years before selling them for a profit But at the same time as that I'm sure West brom fans might have something to say about us... Difference is city are doing it on a much larger scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 (edited) These players are worth whatever teams are willing to pay for them. If these buying team's DOF's just happened to work for man city until very recently well then no that's not dodgy at all guv. Neither is the fact they recently sold a clapped out old banger to 'John Smith' based in UAE for 250 grand. Edited July 7, 2023 by VillaJ100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Its what we are aiming for. Build our academy so we can take the very best and then sell the others to contribute to our revenue . We have 3 of the most promising NI talents in our academy now. Will be interesting to see if they become as valuable as the Man City ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 (edited) 18 hours ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said: It was assumed that Steve Clarke had inside knowledge of his potential, unfortunately didn't unfold, not even when he brought him to Kilmarnock. I've got some other assumptions on that deal and it rhymes with crown shaper envelsoap. I've got this 21 year old he's barely on anyone's radar, nobody has heard if him, he has barely kicked a ball in anger in his career. He's not really a prospect not in any England youth set up and he's going to cost a (at the time) incredible £5m. Sounds legit Steve it really does. Edited July 8, 2023 by rodders0223 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Milan signed Luca Romero from lazio who's young but with a lot of potential, now signing pulisic from Chelsea, that link to chukwueze can't be real too?! Not sure who's on their way out if they sign him as well, de ketalaere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Milan signed Luca Romero from lazio who's young but with a lot of potential, now signing pulisic from Chelsea, that link to chukwueze can't be real too?! Not sure who's on their way out if they sign him as well, de ketalaere? They lost Brahim and trying to sell Messias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAZZAM Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Bayern 2nd bid for Kane, apparently he wants the move? I mean surely Levy has to sell him this window or he's off on a free next season. He ain't a Spurs lifer like Levy would want him to be and clearly wants to win something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Burnley signing Trafford for £19m from Citeh. The worlds gone mad! He looks a prospect but his last loan spell was at Bolton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Just now, jim said: Burnley signing Trafford for £19m from Citeh. The worlds gone mad! He looks a prospect but his last loan spell was at Bolton. Didn't watch Bolton at all, but he's been getting rave reviews. They had the second best defence (36 goals against) in the league behind Ipswich (35 goals against) and pretty sure he broke their clean sheet record in a season. Was voted as their YPOTS. I have watched some of the U21 tournament and he's looked very good - so I'm not entirely sure it'd "worlds gone mad" to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 bazanu was £12m last summer paying for potential, its nothing new, they'll potentially get 15 years out of him too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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