They're there on merit as opposed to the owners relationship with their father perhaps? I think that's what folk are suspicious of. And not without reason. I'm reserving judgment on this one. Burnley will be a higher bar than here.
Because he's been brought in by our owner because he's good mates with his dad, nobody within the footballing side had anything to do with it
If it is it’s working as there is a lot of talk about it, there is no such thing as bad publicity, there’s just publicity or so they say !!!!
He’s been judged not good enough for Burnley U21’s. He might develop further and be ok, but if he wasn’t Ronaldinho’s son, I doubt we would have picked him up at all.
That seems really weird to me since City love a bit of nostalgic nepotism. Not to downplay their talent, but we have Stan Ashbee in the under-21s and we did offer a contract to Lucas Dawson but he turned it down to move to the US. There’s also Rocco Coyle in the under-21s.
Our academy recruitment is becoming largely based on picking up promising 'rejects' from better academies.
And don’t forget Bruce signed his lad who was marmite for some - he always looked solid to me but like Macca a bit slow - but he could bite !
Jacob Greaves probably unique in being better than his Dad Mark, Nick Barmby obviously better than Jeff but did Jeff actually play for City?
I think Mark Greaves was very underrated as a player , but maybe that was just relative to the team we had at the time , probably nowhere near as good as Jacob
No, it will be Brooklyn - if his footballing skills are anyway near as good as his photography skills we are in for a treat.
