Must have Youth! Every transfer is a failure! Rumours / Transfer Thread

I think what he means is we should be giving more opportunities to our current youth players.

 

I noticed that some of the posters here had noticed Xherdan Shaqiri's qualities for Basel and the Swiss national team.

A possible move to Galatasaray seems to be on the cards, which is quite surprising since I thought a bigger team would be eager to snap him up.

Galatasaray in 10M swoop for Sahqiri?

 

Is Pique also going to Turkey?

 

Must have youth?

Manchester City set to swoop for £3.5m Real Madrid youngster Pozo

£3.5m for a 16 year old? Wow

 

Walcott went for £12M when he was 16. That's still a high price to pay. ^^

 

apparently we have a buy back clause (in 2-3 years though) not confirmed.

 

Interesting to see Man City buy someone that young. They bought all good players currently available so now they are going for youth?

 

They built made some VERY impressive youth facilities from what I've heard, and it seems they are trying to build a sustainable club rather than just a buying club, now that they have a rock solid first team. Doesn't surprise me they are going after some top youth talent.

 

I've never heard of Pozo......

 

Where did you see this?

 

Recent years they've developed some decent players and have some pretty good talents running around. Like Guidetti who has scored 11 in 12 apps for Feyenoord or Denis Suárez. While not exactly Ajax academy standard it's better than most of the english teams.

They did pretty shitty in NextGen tho. 0 points in 6 matches and -11 GD.
Speaking of which we'll appearently be joining the NextGen from the next season together with Chelsea and a bunch of other clubs. It'll be great for our talents if Castilla manages promotion and the U19 players will get to play against other talents around Europe.

 

I agree, I never said it is the place to go as a youth looking to develop into a world class player. All I said is they have made some impressive facilities and they are trying to become sustainable.

But tbh, even before their takeover they have had a decent amount of success developing players into the top flight, no world class players but it's not as if they started with nothing, got bought out, and are now starting from scratch with their youth system. Who knows, 20 years down the road they might have one of the best youth systems in the world. With the money they've got to invest in it (if they want to...) it would not surprise me.

 

I don't believe Kaka would go through all this trouble to end up playing in France.

 

it's a good sum of money but I don't think Perez would sell him

 

Kaka' ain't leaving till his contract ends. I have insiders telling me this, but don't quote me if he does leave.

 

Considering his age, constant injuries and huge wage I wouldn't mind if we sold him for €30mil.

 

"It is not true that I have made any agreement with another club," Kaka said on Twitter. "I am totally focused on following my personal and collective goals at Real Madrid."

 

Nani to Real Madrid at the end of the season for 30 million...?

Nani and Ronaldo combo? Yesssss please!!!

 

no thanks