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United are set to sign 17 year old Real Madrid left back Alvaro Fernandez Carreras after he turned down a new deal at Real.
English players only then?Not sure why we sign kids from these parts.
If he makes it, he'll be desperate to go back closer to home like Ronaldo, DDG or Pique were.
I guess that will generate a decent profit but thats not the goal for our academy.
No. Just not very young ones from Spain that turn into world class players.English players only then?
Edited my previous post a bit.No. Just not very young ones from Spain that turn into world class players.
Yeah, it was terrible signing Ronnie. And I would have preferred the post SAF era to have featured a non-point saving POTY subscriber GK. You're having a laugh. Pique is the only one. Should have held onto him.Not sure why we sign kids from these parts.
If he makes it, he'll be desperate to go back closer to home like Ronaldo, DDG or Pique were.
I guess that will generate a decent profit but thats not the goal for our academy.
City players are on whatever they books say + whatever is off the books. No one leave City...Edited my previous post a bit.
I think it's pretty defeatist to assume we'll lose any decent player to Real based on a couple examples. David Silva turned out alright for City didn't he? Doesn't make sense to turn down talent out of paranoia.
David Silva was acquired when he had already completed his 'breakout' development phase, probably because he hadn't been feted by Barcelona or Madrid yet. Also because it was the great Pep. And he is on silly silly silly money.Edited my previous post a bit.
I think it's pretty defeatist to assume we'll lose any decent player to Real based on a couple examples. David Silva turned out alright for City didn't he? Doesn't make sense to turn down talent out of paranoia.
City players are on whatever they books say + whatever is off the books. No one leave City...
Ha, fair enough re: Silva's wages.David Silva was acquired when he had already completed his 'breakout' development phase, probably because he hadn't been feted by Barcelona or Madrid yet. Also because it was the great Pep. And he is on silly silly silly money.
I can't see why any young Spanish player tutored and developed at Manchester United would want to stay after his breakthrough season, if he got an offer from Barcelona or Madrid. He'd be mad to want to stay. So the whole effort seems like a waste of time to me.
I mention DDG because the (understandable) threat of him wanting to go back home was ever present for a few years. Ronnie was also always going to go: we got 2.5 years of genuine return for 3.5 years of investment.
Two. Logan Pye from Sunderland too. But think this guy looks like a 'Real' player, not so sure he's a LB. More like CDM.We were linked to a bunch of LBs, so not surprised we got one.
We should only sign crap players, who never want to leave us?No. Just not very young ones from Spain that turn into world class players.
He reminds me of Matic tbh, the way he plays from the videos of him.It's just normal for a talented fullback to looks like that at youth level. Ethan Laird for example was skining players for fun and Brandon Williams played like a LW most of the times.
He does looks very talened, probably can compete with Devine at U23s level, or we switch to back 5.
He looks a bit like David Luiz imo.
He reminds me of Matic tbh, the way he plays from the videos of him.
Make your bloody minds upLeft footed Ramos regen.
Can you imagineLeft footed Ramos regen.
None of the new foreign signings apart from Vittek who was technically signed in January are in the country yet as far as I know but I'd expect it will go throughDid this go through then?
Cool, thanks.None of the new foreign signings apart from Vittek who was technically signed in January are in the country yet as far as I know but I'd expect it will go through
Just watched the highlights. Hugely impressive. Tall, pacey, two great feet, shooting, long and short passing. I'd expect him to go into the u21s pretty soon.I just finished watching the highlights of our u18s encounter against Burnley and Carreras made his debut and put in a very good performance at LB. His dribbling in close quarters looked very good along with his passing and natural instinct to overlap to provide support to the forwards. A very encouraging performance that he topped off with a beautiful strike with his weaker right foot to open his goals account at u18 level. It seems he won't be playing at u18s very long if he keeps the same level of performance up in the coming weeks.
I was very impressed with what I saw and i'm extremely intrigued to see how he develops in the coming months.Just watched the highlights. Hugely impressive. Tall, pacey, two great feet, shooting, long and short passing. I'd expect him to go into the u21s pretty soon.
So Devine will miss out then you reckon? How do you rate Devine?Just watched the highlights. Hugely impressive. Tall, pacey, two great feet, shooting, long and short passing. I'd expect him to go into the u21s pretty soon.