Or Manchester gets the commonwealth games, eastlands is regenerated creating X number of jobs, the council get an income after every game and they also get Maine rd. city get a stadium in which they spent £20 million upgrading hospitality and yet we Did everyone a favour
To be fair, Garnacho was bought in from Atletico Madrid, at 15 I think. Not quite ready made but not exactly a raw kid off the streets. Buying in the best juniors is nothing new, all the big teams do it now, but I see actually bringing through someone like Mainoo is far more impressive and a better judgement of your academy.
Why is it really a better judgement of the Academy?
Because Mainoo was brought through it fully, as I understand. Garnacho was brought through by Atletico, Utd have taken a partially produced player. Now, we don't know if Utd have improved him, he's the same or whether he hasn't progressed as hoped. How much of Garnacho is Atletico, how much is Utd?
Really, nice to see Utd have turned it around and made millions for the club. Ave read hundreds of pages of how Utd don’t have quality, and now one swallow has made a summer because garnacho who has been a pro for 3 years, and come through the academy. When he was bought in 2020 from Athletico Madrid for £400k is used as a shining example.
Beat me to it.
If you're judging academies with this rule then most academies would be classed as failures as the vast majority of players that get picked up at the age of 8 simply dont make it. Those that do are in a massively low % bracket.
It’s a nice tag line but surely needs more context and how much different is it to other clubs
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What part of Liverpool is Bajectic from?It’s a nice tag line but surely needs more context and how much different is it to other clubs
How many of those players have gone to be regulars in the team
The 24 Academy players who have made their debut under Guardiola
Throughout Pep Guardiola’s period of sustained success at City, the most successful manager in the Club’s history has maintained a commitment to bringing through homegrown talent.
Foden prob the main one
Lewis a few more and Palmer had a few starts
The rest being shipped out
Compare to Klopp
41 players
Incredible list of 41 Jurgen Klopp Liverpool academy graduates
Jurgen Klopp has given more than 40 Liverpool academy graduates their senior debut and made almost £100m selling nine of them who only played 58 games.
With players like
Jones , Trent , Bajectic , Quansah and more to come playing a lot more senior games
I wasn't arguing that utd's academy was a failure or success. Just that Garnacho being used as an example of its success isn't right.
Ah well. I wasn’t expecting much from the Liverpool game today. Only really that we gave a good account of ourselves and didn’t roll over and make it easy for them.
Had at least two very good chances that we didn’t take. And sadly couldn’t prevent the winner, scored in the 9th minute of 8 minutes added time.
It’s roughly 1% that make it to play in the PL. The vast majority of players in an academy are there to make up numbers to allow that 1% to make it. They are either then released or sold to lower league teams.
