TBH all that investment means very little if they don't make it into the team.

Miles behind. History however it's paid for and in whatever currency whether cash or oil cannot be bought.
You are and always will be nothing more than a wealthy Sheffield Wednesday,decent crowds when you were sheet not long ago but unable to fill stands now you're good. Same rules apply. Keep trawling for those supportive articles and I'll keep reading the record books of 1st 's that are there alongside so many of the clubs achievements. Fergie is right you can't polish a tuurd.

"You are and always will be nothing more than a wealthy Sheffield Wednesday,"

Would make a good username for you that, you wouldn't have to type it out every time you make your way over to our board anymore then.

comment by Yes way Jose (U5768)
posted 6 minutes ago
TBH all that investment means very little if they don't make it into the team.
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Depends who you are judging it means very little to. First team results and progression then yes, it currently means very little.

Give it 30 or so years and if they maintain constant success they should start to have a decent bit of history behind them.

Going by life expectancies I'll be dead soon after so that's a problem for the next generation...

Read the article earlier it's a good piece. It will certainly be interesting in the next 5 years or so to see how many get the chance in the first team.

"Miles behind. History however it's paid for and in whatever currency whether cash or oil cannot be bought."

Manchester Central would have argued that...

History doesn't cost anything.

comment by Mike (U1170)
posted 5 minutes ago
Read the article earlier it's a good piece. It will certainly be interesting in the next 5 years or so to see how many get the chance in the first team.
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I have a feeling it will reduce for both teams to be honest. Even since 92, it's a completely different world. For both, it will more likely be a revenue generator from selling players rather than being a continuous flow into the first team. That'll only happen if they keep poaching the older academy players too.

United are feeding off scraps as we speak.
They resort to paying over the odds just to poach our junior scouts.
This is just the beginning. Next Summer, I expect City to sneeze towards Griezman just to make United pay over the odds for him as they did with Pogba.

Mancini it's strange that you posted a link to a decent article, with good talking points.

Then when people actually start discussing it, from fans of both sides, you just start rambling on with some bile trying to cause an argument

comment by meltonblue (U10617)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Mike (U1170)
posted 5 minutes ago
Read the article earlier it's a good piece. It will certainly be interesting in the next 5 years or so to see how many get the chance in the first team.
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I have a feeling it will reduce for both teams to be honest. Even since 92, it's a completely different world. For both, it will more likely be a revenue generator from selling players rather than being a continuous flow into the first team. That'll only happen if they keep poaching the older academy players too.
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It seems to be going that way, I imagine the odd player will still make it though. It's just so hard to give them a sustained chance in the first team.

Rashford for us is a great story, but without injuries to all our senior strikers, and then an injury to Will Keane who was called up from the reserves before Rashford, who knows if he'd have ever broken through.

I think Bertrand helped a bit with that too

Mike,

With the money in the premier league now, only the very very top players will make it at either of the Manchester clubs. Couple that with the globalisation of it and it is going to be very rare to see Mancunians for either side.

What may happen is we adopt the Chelsea model on top of it and loan players continuously, I would absolutely hate for that to happen though and think it should be banned.

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City's youth setup is very impressive to be fair. Their facilities are probably the best in the world now, we need to seriously start upgrading Carrington to keep up. Do City actually have anyone in their first team squad that's come through their youth though?

comment by mancini (U7179)
posted 40 minutes ago
United are feeding off scraps as we speak.
They resort to paying over the odds just to poach our junior scouts.
This is just the beginning. Next Summer, I expect City to sneeze towards Griezman just to make United pay over the odds for him as they did with Pogba.
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City fans saying paying over the odds is just about the funniest thing I've ever seen on this site.

The amount the Arab has invested in city he could have bought out the glazers easily by now and he'd own a club far far bigger with a far bigger reach around the world. So you could imagine the profits he could yield.

Great business man though apparently.

Great business man though apparently.

Certainly is.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8049502/Barclays-saviour-Sheikh-Mansour-makes-2.25bn-from-sale-of-bank-stake.html


With this one deal he could have bought your poxy club, paid off all your debts and sent all of your 677m die-hard fans a Christmas Card.

Yea but buying city wasn't a good financial decision. What's he's had to invest to date and you're still nowhere near as big as my "Poxy" club. And you never will be either.

You have best era in your history and can't fill your ground my taxes helped to build. Have to beg your fans to come.

Last night " please come to our next game"

And the best thing about all of it is you delusional bitters have convinced yourselves it's an achievement being owned by one of richest men in the world.

He could have bought a big club and instead he bought a small one with no fanbase. Not the wisest choice he ever made if he hopes to make money. Because he never will out of City.

Interesting article that could have generated a more interesting conversation here if it hadn't been framed by such a cock-measuring OP.

He could have also sent out letters to your 677m die-hard fans asking why they have to close vast sections of Old Trafford for midweek cup games.

comment by Boris 'Inky' Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
He could have also sent out letters to your 677m die-hard fans asking why they have to close vast sections of Old Trafford for midweek cup games.
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Vast sections is a touch OTT but still get crowds you lot could only dream of.

And when you play midgetland 5 years earlier than us you got a crowd of less than 25,000. All those kippax die hards must have forgot it was on.

All that money and one title more than Leicester. What an investment.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 22 minutes ago
Interesting article that could have generated a more interesting conversation here if it hadn't been framed by such a cock-measuring OP.

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It doesn't help him when the Ja606 City bed wetter turns up either.

At least in Melton they have one rational poster.

Christ you have set stretty off here we go.

Seems like it, I didn't even realise that Leicester had won 3 titles.