Manchester City’s The Academy has produced some important first team players for Pep Guardiola in recent seasons. Perhaps their best graduate academy was Phil Foden, who has played exactly 300 games He scored 97 goals for the club and caught 57 assists at that time.
Recent graduates of the Academy include Rico Lewis and Oscar Bobb. The couple broke into the city’s first team at a similar time 81 performances and 27 performances for the club. Unfortunately for Bobb, injuries have affected his career so far, or it could be a lot more.
However, City fails to retain all its talented graduates and have made a mistake for sale several in the last few years. Two of the most prominent sales by the director of the football Txiki Begiristain were Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers.
Biggest transfer to Txiki Begiristain’s transfer in Man City
What a huge mistake in selling their former academy attackers before they had the opportunity to establish themselves in the first team. Palmer joined Chelsea at a fee £ 42.5 million per term From the summer transition window 2023, which proved to be a great mistake of citizens.
Since then, he has become an extremely destructive offensive player. In 72 appearances So far, he has found the back of the net 39 times for Blues England International and registered 21 assists. As the statistics show, Palmer was one of the most deadly players in the Premier League.
As for Rogers, he left the Etihad stadium before he could even make his debut for the club. Joined by Middlesbrough for £ 1.5m in 2023, before Move to Aston Villa for £ 15m Just a few months later, which was favorable.
The 22-year-old is so far made 49 appearances For the side of Unai Emery, scoring 14 goals and capturing seven assists. This includes a hat-trick of the Champions League in the eight against Celtics in Villa Park, an incredible achievement.
The city must wish that Palmer and Rogers have given a flourishing platform because they could have two incredibly dangerous attacking stars in their composition.
However, perhaps the biggest mistake for the last year or so it was to sell the attacker whose value has increased from leaving.
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Perhaps the worst mistake Begiristain has made on the market in recent years when it comes to the issue of sales of Liama Delap. The MAN City Academy graduate joined Ipswich Town over the summer for £ 20m.
In short, he was sensational this season for the tractor boys. Although Keiran McKenna threatened to relegate, Sitting 19th place in the table With 16 points in their name, that does not mean that Delap fought for a form in front of the goal.
22-year-old striker scored nine goals and has two assists In 23 Premier League matches This season. These include goal and assist in the winning causes against Tottenham Hotspur in northern London and Chelsea on Portman Road.
The English U21 International impressed many people with their performances in this mandate. The former midfielder turned to Pundita Danny Murphy thinks she is The “obvious long -term heir to Harry Kane after legend Bayern Munich deviates from international duties.
“I saw him a lot this season and I would probably go so far as if I would say that an obvious longtime heir to Kane. I think he is the best young English striker outside. I know he got a lot to learn and wisdom comes with experience and time of play In this league, but he got all attributes as the best international player.
Indeed, a “deadly” attacker, As football analyst described himIt has fantastic Statistics this season, through FBREFgiven how bad Ipswich was. For example, it is an average of 0.18 goals per hit and a goal in a target percentage of 48.7%.
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Delap Statistics 2024/25 PL |
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Stat (90) |
Number |
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Goals |
0.46 |
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Footage to the goal |
48.7% |
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Goals by shooting |
0.18 |
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Expected goals |
0.37 xg |
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Actions of cracking |
2.4 |
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Actions to create goals |
0.31 |
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Statistics from Fref |
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Maybe it’s not surprising to hear that 22-year-old Ipswich appreciated incredibly high. According to reports during the winterThe attacker is now estimated at £ 50m, which is a huge increase of 150% to what the city sold it just a few months ago.
Considering his performances and inflated value, citizens certainly regret selling the attacker when they did so. If they had given him the opportunity on the first team, he may have become a prominent player and even scored in place with or instead of Erling Haaland.
The sale of Delap was another mistake from Begiristain, which is certainly a common occurrence if the form of their former academy stars went through. The city will desperately not repeat a mistake in the future.
