Adam Johnson said last year when he returned to Manchester City to play against them for Sunderland that young players should think twice before joining them.
City have assembled a star studded squad with lots of foreign internationals in the team but one thing that is really surprising is young home grown talents are getting wasted with their project.
Though the club is trying to bring talents from the academy and that’s why planning has been made for that, but that is a long future story for now.
Johnson joined City with lots of potential and was touted as the next big thing in English football. However, with plenty of foreign imports, talents like him have gone unnoticed and after getting frustrated with lack of first team opportunities they move elsewhere, just like Johnson moved to Wear side to resurrect his career.
But he is not an isolated example at City. Anybody remember Scott Sinclair? He was also touted as the next bright future for England and was a star performer was Swansea. He had lofty ambitions and now doesn’t get games at all for his club. Likewise, the case with Rodwell is equally frustrating too, considering his injury problems.
Unlike clubs like Arsenal, Manchester United, Everton and Liverpool where home grown talents are given enough importance, the case is bit opposite with City. It is a graveyard for new young English footballers.
Homegrown players with medals: Richards, Barry, Lescott, Hart, Milner and….Johnson
Homegrown players without medals: Jones, Smalling, Sterling, Downing, Baines, Jagiełka, Walcot, Wilshire.
If they are good enough, then they will do well at City. Sinclair obviously hasn’t shown he’s got what it takes in training.
Utter rubbish.
Adam Johnson had 73 appearances in two and a half seasons at ManCity and never quite made the case for an automatic start his own. Sinclair has looked very average, why didn’t you ask the question ‘if he is so good why did Chelsea and Swansea let him go so easily?’
Joey Barton, Shuan Wright Phillips, Micah Richards, Joe Hart, Stephen Ireland, Daniel Sturridge, are all players who have been nurtured at City, given their chances and made a go of it at the top level.
The lower leagues have many players that came through the City Academy and are having good careers commensurate with their ability, like Michael Brown, Dickson Etuhu, Glen Whelan, Willo Flood, Lee Croft, and many others. The current crop of Abdul Razak, Denis Suarez, Karim Rekik, Jose Angel Pozo and Marcos Lopes, all betwen 17 and 20, look exceptional talents but heh, why let the truth spoil a good bit of journalistic assassination?
What a load of rubbish. Sinclair simply isn’t good enough and was a bad signing, and Johnson? Notice how he doesn’t play for England anymore? How he was assisting more and scoring more at city? Didn’t think you had. Learn some facts before spouting rubbish
Rodwell would have played 30+ games by now but for injuries. What about Joe Hart and Micah Richards (another regular when not injured which he unfortunately is too often)? Sinclair is just average, that’s what it comes down to, and was forced on Mancini as Brian Marwood’s last act as technical director.
if these so called young quality players don’t step up in class , why would you play them and leave a quality player on the bench? , adam johnson was given plenty of chances at city but failed to shine, not a 90 minute player , has he set the world alight at sunderland ?