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Player recruitment and development
While watching ex-City keeper Simon Moore playing for Sheffield United in the Premier League on Sunday, I wondered how many other former Cardiff players are currently plying their trade in the top flight, so I had a quick check this morning.
As far as I can establish, there are only two players who have ever been at City on a permanent basis and are currently playing in the Premier League. They are both goalkeepers - Tom Heaton (Aston Villa) and Simon Moore.
There are four more players currently on the books of Premier League clubs who have spent some time on loan at Cardiff in the past - Victor Camarasa (Crystal Palace), Danny Drinkwater (Burnley), Ravel Morrison (Sheffield United) and Wilfred Zaha (Crystal Palace).
Six more ex-Bluebirds who played for City during the last ten years are currently operating in one of the other top European leagues - Fabio de Silva (Nantes, French Ligue 1), Bruno Manga (Dijon, French Ligue 1), Guido Burgstaller (Schalke 04, German Bundesliga), Marko Grujic (Hertha Berlin, German Bundesliga), Gary Medel (Bologna, Italian Serie A) and the much-maligned Andreas Cornelius (Parma, Italian Serie A).
For a club that has been in either the top half of the Championship or the Premier League for almost all of the last ten years, I think the above is a damning indictment of the way in which City have recruited and developed players. Not only has the club failed to produce any top-class players of its own through its youth system during the last decade, but very few of the players it has signed from other clubs have developed into top-flight regulars either.
With all due respect to the current crop of City players, I can't see any of them developing into Premier League performers, so the trend looks set to continue for a while yet.
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You've missed out a few. Frederic Gounongbe recently scored a Champions' League hattrick for PSG, Yanis Wildschut is keeping Messi out of the Barcelona starting line up and Stuart O'Keefe recently turned down a 7 figure salary from an unknown club to stay at Juventus.
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I wondered what had happened to Mats Daehli, as he was supposed to be the next Messi while he was here. Turns out he's with St Pauli in the German second division. They're in the bottom half of the table.
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Rabbi Mattondo was poached from Citys youth system and got a multi million pound move to Germany
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J R Hartley
Rabbi Mattondo was poached from Citys youth system and got a multi million pound move to Germany
Yes I think we got £500k compensation for Matondo, and Man Citeh sold him for £7m!
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Aaron Ramsey playing for one of the biggest clubs in Europe but I suppose that doesnt fit your agenda.
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J R Hartley
Aaron Ramsey playing for one of the biggest clubs in Europe but I suppose that doesnt fit your agenda.
Shut up you daft ****.
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The Lone Gunman
Shut up you daft ****.
Keep your hair on. Its a valid point. If youre going to make a list of ex City players plying their trade in the top leagues why cap it at "last decade"?
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J R Hartley
Keep your hair on. Its a valid point. If youre going to make a list of ex City players plying their trade in the top leagues why cap it at "last decade"?
Let's be honest, Aaron Ramsey is ancient history as far as City are concerned. He was sold in June 2008. The point I was trying to make is about the way the club has been operating in recent times. Obviously. And you can just **** off with the 'agenda' stuff.
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The Lone Gunman
Let's be honest, Aaron Ramsey is ancient history as far as City are concerned. He was sold in June 2008. The point I was trying to make is about the way the club has operating in recent times. Obviously. And you can just **** off with the 'agenda' stuff.
A point that has been made thousands of times on this forum alone in the last few years. I dont think you would find anyone arguing there has been no pathway for our youngsters, or that Warnocks transfer dealings have been any good. Apart from DML1954 maybe.
Besides, we are a championship club and weve got many ex-players playing in the Championship, and also quite a few who come through the ranks at City. I dont know why you would expect to have a load of ex-City players operating at Premier League level.
Weve got 3 players currently starring for the Wales under 19 set-up, and have been getting game time for Citys Under 23s recently. It will be interesting to see if they will be developed better than the age group above them who seem to have all been shifted out on loan to League of Wales clubs.
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J R Hartley
Keep your hair on. Its a valid point. If youre going to make a list of ex City players plying their trade in the top leagues why cap it at "last decade"?
He hasn't got any hair
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The Lone Gunman
Let's be honest, Aaron Ramsey is ancient history as far as City are concerned. He was sold in June 2008. The point I was trying to make is about the way the club has been operating in recent times. Obviously. And you can just **** off with the 'agenda' stuff.
Bloody hell keep your hair on !!
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Bloody hell keep your hair on !!
:hehe: :hehe:
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The Lone Gunman
I wondered what had happened to Mats Daehli, as he was supposed to be the next Messi while he was here. Turns out he's with St Pauli in the German second division. They're in the bottom half of the table.
It's quite interesting looking at his stats. I'm aware that he's had injury problems, but he's made 12 appearances for Norway in 5 years. In a poor 2nd tier German team, he's been substituted in almost half of his starts. Perhaps we can swap him for Tomlin....
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cardiff55
Yes I think we got £500k compensation for Matondo, and Man Citeh sold him for £7m!
They sold him for £11m. He is part of a fairly long list of young players they took from smaller clubs and paid compensation for, then quickly sold on for big profits. The last list I saw totalled nearly £60m of fees in for them from this type of deal.
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The Lone Gunman
Let's be honest, Aaron Ramsey is ancient history as far as City are concerned. He was sold in June 2008.
Looking at players we sold/loaned etc between 2004-2011. These players moved to the Premier League or SPL or ended up playing at that level. I might have missed one or two.
Kavanagh (played for Wigan in the PL)
Earnshaw
Collins
Gabbidon
Tony Warner
Jerome
Chopra
Gunter
Ramsey
Loovens
Flood
Johnson
Magennis
Ledley
Matthews
Gives some sort of perspective.
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Eric the Half a Bee
Looking at players we sold/loaned etc between 2004-2011. These players moved to the Premier League or SPL or ended up playing at that level. I might have missed one or two.
Kavanagh (played for Wigan in the PL)
Earnshaw
Collins
Gabbidon
Tony Warner
Jerome
Chopra
Gunter
Ramsey
Loovens
Flood
Johnson
Magennis
Ledley
Matthews
Gives some sort of perspective.
Very few of those had a Premier League / top level career. Gabbidon, Collins, Ledley and Ramsey.
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It’s a bit like a league 1 club wondering why they’ve not produced championship players.
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dembethewarrior
It’s a bit like a league 1 club wondering why they’ve not produced championship players.
Most of them do. Plenty end up at Cardiff City.
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The Lone Gunman
Most of them do. Plenty end up at Cardiff City.
Knickers super twisted today are they David?
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Using Erics logic then Jordon Mutch, David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Jay Bothroyd went on to play Premier League after leaving Cardiff in the last decade.
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J R Hartley
Using Erics logic then Jordon Mutch, David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Jay Bothroyd went on to play Premier League after leaving Cardiff in the last decade.
Kevin Peadophile Catherine another one who played Ligue 1 after leaving City.
Juan Cala and Javi Guerra La Liga.
Should have kept Ole in charge in that 2013/14 season and not let Slade rip that team up. :hehe:
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J R Hartley
Using Erics logic then Jordon Mutch, David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Jay Bothroyd went on to play Premier League after leaving Cardiff in the last decade.
Mutch and Marshall are reasonable examples of players who actually developed here and went on to play at a higher level with other clubs, although it didn't go particularly well for either of them.
Caulker came from the Premier League, only played for City in the Premier League and went to another Premier League club. That could hardly be described as development.
As for Bothroyd, he'd already played for two clubs in the Premier League and in Serie A before he came here.
But hey, if these players fit your agenda, then so be it.
:thumbup:
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J R Hartley
Kevin Peadophile Catherine another one who played Ligue 1 after leaving City.
Juan Cala and Javi Guerra La Liga.
Didn't they all come from top-flight teams anyway?
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The Lone Gunman
Mutch and Marshall are reasonable examples of players who actually developed here and went on to play at a higher level with other clubs, although it didn't go particularly well for either of them.
Caulker came from the Premier League, only played for City in the Premier League and went to another Premier League club. That could hardly be described as development.
As for Bothroyd, he'd already played for two clubs in the Premier League and in Serie A before he came here.
But hey, if these players fit your agenda, then so be it.
:thumbup:
I certainly will use Jay Bothroyd as an example of a player who Cardiff developed into a better player. Always had the talent but it was nurtured to its fullest at Cardiff.
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The Lone Gunman
Didn't they all come from top-flight teams anyway?
And?
Several players who you named in your OP come from top flight teams? or played top flight?
Or are you changing the goalposts to suit your agenda?
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J R Hartley
And?
Several players who you named in your OP come from top flight teams? or played top flight?
Or are you changing the goalposts to suit your agenda?
Let me ask you a question: do you think Cardiff City Football Club has been one that has recruited well and where a good percentage of players have developed significantly during the last decade or so?
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The Lone Gunman
Let me ask you a question: do you think Cardiff City Football Club has been one that has recruited well and where a good percentage of players have developed significantly during the last decade or so?
Depends how you look at it. Whilst we may have not developed many young players we have been promoted twice to the Premier League in that time. So we obviously made some players better.
Every club would like to get promoted with a team full of developed players but how often is that the case? Most clubs buy their way out of this division. Thats just the way it is.
Lets cut the bullshit, this is just another of your threads with the hidden message being an attack on Vincent Tan.
Let it go mun.
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Hasnt the last decade been our most successful period of at least the last 50 years. 2 promotions. Feck me weve had some luck since our recruitment and development is so bad..........or perhaps it hasnt.?
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Hilts
Hasnt the last decade been our most successful period of at least the last 50 years. 2 promotions. Feck me weve had some luck since our recruitment and development is so bad..........or perhaps it hasnt.?
But we didnt do it with a 22 man squad of lads born within Cardiff postcodes and were with the club since they could walk, so its futile.
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The Lone Gunman
Let me ask you a question: do you think Cardiff City Football Club has been one that has recruited well and where a good percentage of players have developed significantly during the last decade or so?
My answer to this would be that we haven't done as well with signing players for little and selling them for lots to bigger clubs (or as well with bringing players through as youngsters) since the days of Ridsdale and Hammam. That's not any agenda against Tan or Dato Chen Ghee. I think that's factually obvious.
Another interesting question might be to ask how many players we've made a profit from in recent seasons. I don't think there's many at all.
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J R Hartley
Lets cut the bullshit, this is just another of your threads with the hidden message being an attack on Vincent Tan.
Oh yeah, that's the 'agenda', of course it is.....
As it happens, I believe Tan is largely blameless for this area of the club's operations. As often as not, he's backed his managers with reasonable sums of money. The problem is that, by and large, they've brought in players that either aren't capable of progressing past Championship level or aren't even good enough for the second tier.
It's telling that, of the players the last manager assembled last year for a tilt at the Premier League, only two are playing top flight football this season. One, who was here on loan, can't even get on Crystal Palace's bench, while the other is turning out for a side who are 17th in the French league.
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Hilts
Hasnt the last decade been our most successful period of at least the last 50 years. 2 promotions. Feck me weve had some luck since our recruitment and development is so bad..........or perhaps it hasnt.?
Two promotions, two relegations and a distinct lack of players who have progressed after leaving the club.
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Eric the Half a Bee
My answer to this would be that we haven't done as well with signing players for little and selling them for lots to bigger clubs (or as well with bringing players through as youngsters) since the days of Ridsdale and Hammam. That's not any agenda against Tan or Dato Chen Ghee. I think that's factually obvious.
Another interesting question might be to ask how many players we've made a profit from in recent seasons. I don't think there's many at all.
You could put Ridsdale, Hammam and Warnock in the same bracket of individuals who were operating for their own self gain and not the good of the football club.
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The Lone Gunman
It's telling that, of the players the last manager assembled last year for a tilt at the Premier League, only two are playing top flight football this season..
Yeah, that tends to happen when a club gets relegated after just 1 season. It was a squad made up of players who had never played in the Premier League, or those that had operated previously in the top flight, were deemed not good enough so its not that telling.
Its not like we signed a load of established Premier League players, they spent one season with Cardiff, and they are shit. The players were not good enough for that level to begin with.
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The Lone Gunman
Two promotions, two relegations and a distinct lack of players who have progressed after leaving the club.
But still our 2 most successful seasons.
You dont get 2 PL promotions including a Football league Championship without some good recruitment which there has been.
What we haven't done is recruit well enough when promoted.
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J R Hartley
Yeah, that tends to happen when a club gets relegated after just 1 season.
Like when the club was relegated after just one season in 2013/14?
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The Lone Gunman
Like when the club was relegated after just one season in 2013/14?
So the recruitment in the last decade has been good then? Make your mind up.
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J R Hartley
So the recruitment in the last decade has been good then? Make your mind up.
It's been brilliant, as clearly demonstrated by the wealth of talent in the current squad and the glorious careers of those who have flourished after spending time developing at Cardiff.
:thumbup:
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The Lone Gunman
It's been brilliant, as clearly demonstrated by the wealth of talent in the current squad and the glorious careers of those who have flourished after spending time developing at Cardiff.
:thumbup:
The current squad has players with more premier league experience than most clubs in the division.
How many Preston players have gone on to have glorious careers? Millwall?
We are what we are. A championship club with championship players.