Other clubs transfers 2021
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Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
If we couldn’t get a permit for Onyekeru, no chance they’ll get one for some Brazilian toddler, surely?!
"What's the colour of money, what's the colour of money - Don't tell me that you think it's green, when you know it's red"
Nymzee
Player Valuation: £150m
They have many players signed now they just farm out to their group clubs. Palaversa, Herrera, Couto, Stevanovic, Bustos, Ilic brothers etc. Doubt we’ll ever see any play for City.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
That's not why they were signed. It's accounting voodoo. Buy young players cheap, put the wages on satellites' books via loan, sell players at a profit. Notice that the satellites are all in countries where no one cares if you operate at a loss, so long as you keep the lights on and the wages paid.
Shazam! Instant FFP proceeds for the parent club.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Theyve got a Brazilian youth international right back + now highly rated Kayky.
I think theyre hoping in a years time they both come into the squad.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
I'm not saying that this signing is for accounting voodoo (not passing judgment either way, never seen him). The stable of players Nym mentioned that are unlikely to crack the squad, however, were likely bought for that purpose.
Nymzee
Player Valuation: £150m
What’s the difference between those players I listed and the Brazilians? They’re all “wonder kids” just different nationalities.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
I'm not saying there is or isn't a difference. I know absolutely nothing about this particular player. I've never seen him and I have no way of judging his prospects of breaking through.
What I'm saying is that City's young players that are unlikely to ever play for the first team serve the same basic purpose as the kids at the modern La Masia (where they get promoted, make a few appearances and get sold on) - to appreciate as assets in order to be sold later to fund win-now purchases. City has just taken that model a step further, by essentially pushing the operating costs of that process off the club's books (but not the owner's) in order to generate phantom profits for FFP purposes.
Should one of the kids break through, it's just a bonus.
Noisy noise annoys
Player Valuation: £70m
Truthfully I don't have a real problem with this. Letting younger players play competitve football, albeit in a lesser league, would have to imagine it gets them more "ready" than doing U18/U23 stuff. It's akin to minor leagues in baseball/hockey over in the States. Theres no real progression for a lot of these youth players in the current setups. Foden was meant to be the heir apparent to Silva for the last 3 years and barely got more than a 5 minute cameo at the end.
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