Reply With QuoteThat’s pretty incredible. The academy seems to be a conveyor belt and ready made talent. Quite a business model.
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Just read about the Matondo deal on the BBC website which included these figures. Seems to justify ManCity's academy and how!!
Deals for academy/young players from Manchester City over past three seasons:
Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester) £25.4m (20 City starts)
Brahim Diaz (Real Madrid) £21m (4 starts)
Angus Gunn (Southampton) £13.5m (0 starts)
Enes Unal (Villarreal) £12.7m (0 starts)
Jason Denayer (Lyon) £9.9m (0 starts)
Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund) £9.1m (0 starts)
Pablo Maffeo (Stuttgart) £8.8m (3 starts)
Rony Lopes (Monaco) £8.8m (3 starts)
Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield) £8m (0 starts)
Karim Rekik (Marseille) £7.5m (1 start)
Geronimo Rulli (Real Sociedad) £5.8m (0 starts)
Angelino (PSV Eindhoven) £5.6m (1 start)
Olivier Ntcham (Celtic) £4.5m (0 starts)
Larry Kayode (Shakhtar Donetsk) £4.6m (0 starts)
Seko Fofana (Udinese) £4.2m (0 starts)
Bersant Celina (Swansea) £3.8m (1 start)
Rabbi Matondo (Schalke) £9.6m (0 starts)
Total: £162.8 million
That’s pretty incredible. The academy seems to be a conveyor belt and ready made talent. Quite a business model.
But how much do they fork out in bringing all those youngsters and their families over to this country in the first place, not only for those list above but for all the other kids they've got from overseas.
The battle for Manchester is heating up: on one hand you have Man City aiming to be one single super-club where on the other you have Man United, FC United and Salford at different levels but all still basically the same club.
Here's how they do it
Iheneacho signed from taye age 16 free
Matondo Cardiff age 16 500k
Sancho Watford age 14 66k
Diaz Malaga age16 200k
Gunn Norwich age 16 250k
Enes unal bursaspor age 16 2 million
Denayer lierse age 15 free
Pablo Maffeo espanol age 16 free
And those are just the ones I looked up. City like a lot of big clubs are experts at signing up outstanding youngsters as soon as they are legally able for a pittance, then seeking them on for a massive profit. Despicable
Mooy and Rulli were definitely not from their academy.
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