I was throwing out a hypothetical because as a professional there should be no reason to stop you from going in and doing your job. Whether it's him wanting first team football, wanting guarantees, or whatever, you don't throw your toys out of the pram and say I'm not doing it any more.
Kid screams Ravel Morrisson to me
We don't really know for sure what's gone on do we, but if he's been left out of the tour because he's not signing his deal then he's having his chance to play taken away.
Possibly. Kid won U17 Euro Championship best player this summer though which is more than Morrison ever achieved. I think he is worth the gamble for us though.
Or maybe he is right, he wont get a first team chance at city. City have no record of budding in youngsters and after spending the money pep has and sheer number of first teamers, he wont get a game. He is simply not allowed mistakes, mistakes like martial rashford etc made/make. I think he is being intelligent although not coming to training is not good, but his decision seems to be right. His way of acting no.
So then tell City you want to leave as soon as possible but still show up for training.
I agree with you.
No he doesn't. He can go transfer to a team who will play him, which is exactly what he is looking to do.
Article says he's looking at Arsenal and Spurs. He's not going to be first choice at either of those clubs.
He doesn't need to be first choice. He just needs a path into the first team. He could very easily be given chances at either of those clubs.
Who was the last Arsenal player to get through?
Iwobi
I said the same thing, his decision is right, way to go about is not.
A gangster wannabe?
Lots. Many of them have developed injury problems and failed to develop or just not developed for other reasons but plenty of young players have got game time at Arsenal. Maitland-Niles and Rene-Adelaide got a bit, Holding, Iwobi, Bellerin, Jenkinson, Ox, Wilshere, Walcott, they've all got game time as a young player. Sure you can argue Wenger hasn't developed some of them the best but thats a different point and you can't really say it was due to a lack of game time or path into the first team which is what Sancho is apparently looking for.
Third one
Not to mention legends such as Lord Bentner, Denilson, Frimpong, Song, etc.
Well that doesn't seem like him then, as reports suggest, one of his biggest issues is not getting a first team chance. That sounds more like Pogba. Didn't work out too bad for him.
Because that's what we are , Theater of dreams.
'Left to rot' as someone once said?
Quite the opposite, he wants to leave because he believes he is good enough to be at least on the bench at City right now.
Are we interested? I think you can comment on it with your vast knowledge of our youth system.
In reality every club would be interested in him but as far as I know part of the reason he's set on leaving is that he never properly settled in Manchester so I don't see us signing him
That's similar to what happened with Dom Solanke at Chelsea last season. Going into the last year of his contract it was clear he would not sign an extension so the club didn't loan him our and barely played him in the U23s.
Patrick roberts is a fantastic prospect. He'd have played loads for our first team by now if he'd come here,
I agree. I remember I had the unpopular opinion of preferring him over Memphis at the time. Yes, Memphis was more of a 'ready' signing - but I just didn't see him as a potential top bracket player, which I saw Roberts as, and the fact he was English too was another bonus.
Yep whole thread is based on rumors, obviously put out by City.
Sam Lee of goal.com(City's most reliable) said that he has already said his goodbyes to City's dressing room and they expect him to go to Dortmund.
Feck. Was holding out hope he'd come here.
