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MRTA7:
I do agree that our academy players need to be used more. I over did it by saying Chido is clearly not ready so I take that back, That was wrong. but at the same time, I don't want us to bring in these kids into a bad situation that will hamper their development. Being ready doesn't mean they still wont need development and we can see how bad that can go if not done properly and in the right environment.

I get. But if we want to protect them then let's do it with our full chest. Let them play only academy matches.

afrodoc:
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Very well said.

So let us start from Liverpool and go down the league table one by one. Let us see how many 17yr olds were thrown into battle and how many minutes they played?

Why will they be thrown into battle when the need is not there?

We loaned out players plus hit with injuries. Is Liverpool facing same?

Give Amass, Obi and Collyer consistent minutes.

If you want to protect them from the useless players, don't bring them in at all.

The club has a history using young players and they are trying to boost that record, that's why you see academy players coming in at useless times.

You expect to see them next game to build the momentum, and boom, you won't see them anymore till God knows when.

Football is evolving. At 17 up, you should be ready to be thrown into battle.

delkuf:
that is the problem. A good coach would have groom one or two good players from the academy into the first team.

Where would Barcelona have been without the impart of yamal and curbasi and rest

To them, those ones are super humans.

superfelix:
Why should i remove Mainoo? He has always featured under Amorim as a teenager

Oga Maino, Heaven, Yoro are not your academy players anymore. Mainoo is now a first team player. Yoro and Heaven were bought.

afrodoc:
This is the crux of the matter. You want us to use these academy players not because they are ready or not but because the senior players are useless.

It is better for you guys to go and beg the great senior players to start playing great football, instead of trying to wreck the future of innocent children.

We play more teenagers and give them more minutes than most other clubs and you are claiming we over protect them. LOL.

By giving them useless and inconsistent minutes when the game is over.

We know the ones that are ready. And we know areas we are lacking.

Person wey won play ball go play ball. If you like protect from now till tomorrow.

delkuf:
thank you for this. But according to afrodoc the academy are not ready

He's not particularly saying they are not ready.

afrodoc2:
Your first wrong statement: Amass did not play when Dorgu got red card.

And even if Amass pushes the minutes up is that strange? Is he not part of the youths? Or it me or you that will push the minutes up?

When some of us say not ready yet we say that because we watch every single minute of every single televised academy game, and we see how they are performing for the full 90 minutes and not just highlights.

Your second wrong statement: Chido is not one of the ones i think is not ready yet. In fact, i have been calling on Chido to start games for a few weeks now.

Finally, you people talk as if City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle play their teenagers. Apart from recently when Arsenal started playing Nwaneri and MLS we are the only big team that continues giving minutes to such young players, mainly because it is our tradition and also partly because the senior players are thrash.
The truth is we are the ones who play our teenagers, and in some cases, we even overplay our teenagers when they are not ready. You don't hear about other club's fans lamenting like ours.

City's Under-18 team is presently equal to our even slightly better than our Under-18 team and it is almost certain that none of them will smell senior team for maybe 2 to 3 years sef. Meanwhile we have had 2 players make their debuts in a few months and a couple others make the bench.

City's Under-21 team is way better than our Under-21 team and those boys are struggling to make the senior team bench.

Check Villa, Newcastle, Chelsea, Liverpool etc. They all have academies too. How many of them are they playing?

The difference is that their senior players are doing their job so there is no undue pressure on their academy players. Oscar Bobb is 21 and used to deal with our academy but he is still on the fringes at City. If he was here, he would have been on 200 games by now and fans might have started cussing him out too.

Chido not being ready, my question is to the person who says he's not ready.

We are in a state where we need these academy players to play more. Our first team players are either useless or injured.

You'll introduce an academy player and he turns up but in the next game you won't play him to build up.

See how arsenal are using MLS and Nwaneri?

Stivoh:
Amass didn't play at all during the time Dorgu was suspended
Dalot played LWB and mazraoui played RWB

My bad then.

afrodoc:
Name 3 clubs that have given more minutes to teenagers than us this season.

After that name 3 clubs that gave more minutes to teenagers last season.

Na that Amass carry the minutes go up. And na because Dorgu get red card and nobody to use.

I'm not even saying he's not putting them(does he even have a choice with all the injuries?). I'm only calling out that phrase "not ready yet" you guys use.

How is Chido not ready yet?

CrystalTiger:
The thing tire me..

To make matters worse, Obi always looks more composed than Hojlund every fvcking time

Sincerely.

The guy tries. You can see he plays well. I'm not sure he's played a full match.

I don't know the not ready they are talking about.

Na only our academy players no dey ever ready.

Protect them. Protect them. All the ones they protected, where them dey?🤣

MRTA7:
I'm not sure he has a choice. Obi is clearly not ready and forcing him to start could do more damage to him.

What makes Obi not ready?

nitrogen:
Erasmus! Hoping this helps his confidence for the mid week game.

Which confidence?
The guy no sabi. Na otu

CrystalTiger:
Hojlund can't continue starting games for us ffs, this guy is way below average ffs

This is one thing that Amorim is doing that's pissing me off.
These coaches always find a way to get themselves sacked.

nitrogen:
I remember when everyone was saying a ball playing keeper is the trend. We need to play out from the back. We maltreated DDG and went to pick the best GK in the UCL (at the time), who is not only bad at keeping the ball, but somehow lost his ball playing skill in less than one year after signing him.

🤣🤣
How he lost his ball playing abilities is a wonder to me.

God have mercy on us.

Na downfall dey bring all these arguments 🤣

spillo1:
Osimhen comes with a lot of baggage plus a salary of at least 300k. Delap is a steal for just 30Million pounds.

Hodjlund no get baggage o🤣

Most players wey dey pop get baggage wey you dey fear.

Baba come play ball for me. Bring your goals and baggages

obonujoker:
Lol ..

Hope Una no go blame the striker say e dey hold the team back when he begin to score goals as usual...😹

Quote people wey dey blame striker 🤣
Nothing concern me and paparazzi. Na winning and goals be my own.

eph12:
Those youngsters should be getting the minutes Mount is getting. He is a waste of time and space. The club need to count their loss and cut loose

Let Chelsea come back for him. We don't want again.

eph12:
Is there still any hope for Mason Mount?

I don't even recognise that guy as a United player.

Our problem has always been goal scoring.
If you can't score, your opponent will score.
Barca has gone down many times this season. If they couldn't score goals they would have had many losses.

When we enter into the market, we should prioritise goal scorers, be it defenders, midfielders or attackers.

We should be in a position where even if you score us 11, we would score 12

afrodoc2:
Who will be our strikers in the Europa League?

Sincerely, tweaking the formation to leave out Hodjlund out will help. Maybe a false 9 kind of stuff. That guy is a waste of space.

Nawa.

See the striker wey we get. Hehehe

patrickmuf:
Bodo beating Spurs will be a huge upset but I am here for it provided we can navigate our way past Bilbao...Our experience at this stage of European competition should count for something.

Right.
I'm ready for any team sha. I hope we just win.

engrelvis:
Ok. Anyway I don't want spurs final . I pray their opponent do the needful.

If you don't want spurs and someone else can beat them, shouldn't you be more afraid of the opponent?🤣

CapitalCee:
Obi is 17,he is a bright prospect. But he is not better Hojlund at this moment, make we de calm down.

How is he not better?
What has Hodlund done in his career?

iamharkinwaley:
We need UCL, if we qualify quality players will be tempted to join us and it will boost the team, with UCL we can achieve more in two years

This should be basic knowledge but some people want make we deserve am first.

Hehehe. Na Chelsea "deserve" to win UCL in 2021?🤣

nitrogen:
Reason UCL qualification is very key for us.

Someone was telling me we don't need it. Hehehe.

Tears just full ground. 😂
My shoe don soak

patrickmuf:
You might not like the coach, but for the love of the club, we really need to win the UEL and qualify for the UCL...

Reports say we don't have money and only UCL qualification guarantees cash windfall of any kind coupled with the fact that we can players will be willing to come with the allure of UCL football so as a fan, this is not the time to pray the team fails just so you can banter those who you think are loyal to the coach. If we don't win the UEL and Amorim finally gets the sack, where will the new coach get the money to bring in players? Abi, you will start demanding he will somehow get this crop of players to start delivering consistently.

That was what I was saying and some people were saying we don't need UCL.
The money, the pull. Omo. We need am o.