England's recent squad: Joe Hart - Already at the club Rob Green - can get but wouldn't improve first team or bench Tom Heaton - would ruin his own career Phil Jones - plays for Man U Nathaniel Clyne - recently moved Ryan Bertrand - recently moved Kieran Gibbs - Decent full back off the bench but isn't better than Zabaletta Gary Cahill - Chelsea wouldn't sell unless a silly price. Would be good for City Chris Smalling - plays for Man U Phil Jagielka - would not improve the team Ross Barkley - been interest before, would cost a bomb and doesn't improve the first team Adam Lallana - they can have if they wanted too, would be decent on the bench Jack Wilshire - apparently no go anyways Jordan Henderson - nope Fabian Delph - turned them down James Milner - recently moved Andros Townsend - could happen, I don't rate at all but could happen Raheem Sterling - on going saga Tom Cleverly - recently moved Theo Walcott - could happen Danny Welbeck - nope and doesn't improve team Wayne Rooney - nope Charlie Austin - ruin his own career and doesn't improve team Jamie Vardy - nope So I call six players who realistically could go to Man City and maybe one of them improves them. There in trouble.
Maybe they don't have enough to fill the homegrown quota, they got rid of Milner and Lampard is gone, so they need more Englishmen now.
Manchester City have the current maximum of 17 non home-grown players. Those are: Sergio Aguero, Wilfried Bony, Willy Caballero, Martin Demichelis, Edin Dzeko, Fernando, Fernandinho, Stevan Jovetic, Aleksandar Kolarov, Vincent Kompany, Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri, Jesus Navas, Bacary Sagna, David Silva, Yaya Toure and Pablo Zabaleta. In addition Gael Clichy and Dedryck Boyata would no longer be classed as a home-grown players under the new rules because they did not play for English clubs for three years before their 18th birthdays. If the rules were introduced today, City would need to offload six of the players listed above.
Yeah but they still need to replace them, and also, like Rubber says, they have exceeded their foreign quota, so any signings they make will need to be Brits. Hence why they are prepared to pay spastic money for Sterling, who is worth literally half what City will pay, at best.
They're not in trouble at all. They'll improve their first team by trading out some of the poorer performing foreigners and replace them with better ones!
Nope, to improve the first team they will pay big money to replace players like Mangala, Jovetic, Navas and Nasri. The Hg players will just be squad fillers.
First they have to flog em tho. And the players have to want to leave. Its unlikely they will get the same money elsewhere so they may run into problems trying to shift em. Like we did with Torres
Indeed. You can bet Jovetic for example is on 100k a week or near as damn it. He wont get that anywhere else
I think they will get away with just signing "home grown" players who aren't actually English. Like Chelsea with Begovic & Fabregas. There's surely a few others knocking about like Pique, Pogba etc.
****ing ridiculous He'd be lucky to get half that elsewhere. What other big spending club will go in for him? Not Chelsea, United, Barca or Real thats for sure.
Pogba wouldn't count if the rules were changed from 'Three years under 21' to the proposed 'At least three years under 18'. Meaning a player would have to join an English/Welsh club at 15! In fact I understand Pogba fails under the u21 rule as well, by about three months. FA are going to make life very difficult for the Prem teams, expect the price of English players to rocket even higher than they are now if Dyke gets his way. http://www1.skysports.com/football/...les-bad-news-for-man-city-arsenal-and-chelsea
Yeah but as far as I'm aware the rules haven't been implemented and they'll struggle to implement them because most of the top clubs don't want them.
