Just a quick blog-posting triggered by a few-days-news of incoming, young players in recent days, which links back to other youth signings I’d noted in the last few months too.
The hard work just doesn’t stop, regardless of what’s going on at first-team level and in the wider world as a whole, with regards to the future of Manchester City Football Club.
Done and about to be…
A Brazilian right-wing back who will officially become a Manchester City player tomorrow. I’ve already written about him in a piece I did on 19th April 2020 and this is what I wrote…
Yan Couto is a
player a lot of City fans might think sounds familiar. Why? Well he was on my list of reasonably linked players and…we’ve now signed
him! He’ll be joining us in July, having signed him from Brazilian
side, Coritiba FC for £5.4M. He’s classed as a right-back / right-wing back but
having seen this lad play using on-line clips, I can tell you that he could do
that job on the left too and has done so on occasions. I’ve rarely seen such a
good, young, 2-footed player as Yan. Bags of skill and, apparently,
could run all day…and then into the night too! Seems to have good positional
awareness, for such a young lad, and times his tackles very well. Of course,
being blessed with such skill and being Brazilian, he likes to get further up
the pitch as a secondary winger and he does that with exciting results too.
Now…will he be used this coming season? He’ll be 18 in June and using the old adage,
“If you’re good enough, you’re old enough”, then why not? Of course, the Premier League is a WORLD away from
the league he’s played in but I wouldn’t be so quick to fire him out on loan
straight away. I think, however, that is very much likely to be the plan for a
player who, perhaps, needs ‘bulking up’ a little. Perhaps, after a little time acclimatising
in the EDS, we’ll see Yan moved on somewhere that suits his progression.
A left-sided midfielder / Winger signed from Kilmarnock in March 2020.
Another right-wing back that will officially become a Manchester City player tomorrow, aged 17. We agreed a fee with his club, Alianza Lima, when he was aged 16 a few months ago now.
Mikki van Sas is a goalkeeper that will officially move from Utrecht Under 17s to Manchester City tomorrow and who only turned 16 in February this year.
Latest chatter is that we are ‘on the verge’ of signing a highly rated 16-year old left back from Barcelona’s youth system. Keep an eye out for the name Juan Larios arriving soon.
Once again, tomorrow is the date that will see Celtic’s Josh Adam become a Manchester City player. A 16-year old described as a very talented attacking midfielder.
Keeping it ‘in the family’, in a way, see’s our ex-skipper, Vincent Kompany, allowing a very much sort after, by all accounts, 16-year old, defensive midfielder to join us from Anderlecht’s Under 18s. Once again, Romeo Lavia official becomes a City player tomorrow.
Not QUITE confirmed but very close, it would seem, is a former Barcelona Youth forward, Pablo Moreno. Having apparently scored more than 200 goals for La Masia, the-now 18-year old then moved to Juventus, which is where he is about to-not-only depart from to head to Manchester but also swap with a player we only signed last summer, Felix Correia. Apparently, the plan is that Pablo will then join City Football Group (CFG) club, Girona F.C., on loan next season.
And finally, on youth signings at least, NOT Manchester City but the latest club to join the CFG, Lommel SK, have just signed 18-year old Filip Krastev on a 5-year deal. However, it is believed that MCFC are going to be monitoring the Bulgarian midfielder closely…
And in not-so youthful news…
…but by no means old, there have been increasing signals in the press in the last few days of our interest in perhaps bidding for both Nathan Ake & Jack Grealish; all on top of returning rumours of previous links to 29-year old Kalidou Koulibaly.
You just can’t take your eye off it for a minute!
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