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Why Manchester City are Damaging English Football

Manchester City aren’t exactly admired by many outside the realms of the Etihad stadium these days.

Their rapid, and let’s face it – unearned, rise to success has left many feeling disappointing with the direction Premier League football happens to be going in nowadays – with those with the cash seemingly benefitting a great deal more than the teams trying to build their way to the top sustainably and locally.

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The likes of Southampton have provided at least a flicker of light for such sides without the obscenely powerful financial backing that Manchester City and Chelsea have this season – which whilst not having much of an influence on who will eventually win the Premier League title – does in-fact show hope for certain teams wanting to pave their way in a deserving manner.

 

However, with the Express claiming than Manuel Pellegrini’s current champions are about to further rinse their Premier League counter-parts for a number of new up-and-coming English faces, the future of the nation’s beloved game may yet be taking another backwards step.

 

Arsenal’s Jack Wilshere, Everton’s Ross Barkley and West Ham’s Aaron Cresswell, are seemingly being touted as the latest names to have gained the interested of Manchester City, with the wealthily backed club supposedly after more English faces to make-up the amount of home-grown players in their squad. In launching such a potentially damaging movement, it seems the Citizens have completely missed the point.

 

‘Home-grown’ is meant to mean ‘home-grown’, i.e. not buying from elsewhere and making out as if you developed it and made it for yourself. Both Ross Barkley and Jack Wilshere started out their footballing careers by rising through the youth development ranks at each of their respective clubs, whilst West Ham’s Aaron Cresswell was recently sourced from the Championship largely under the radar. If City wanted such players before, why didn’t they extensively search the lower leagues for their own gems?

 

The answer is simple – and its money that once again happens to be doing the talking. Why would the club bother with such an ordeal if they can seemingly afford to pay their way past any moral hurdles that happen to stand in their way?

 

We have seen just how damaging this approach has been in the past at the Etihad, with the likes of Scott Sinclair and Jack Rodwell – two young English talents who were seemingly on course to great things before they moved to City – completely failing to establish themselves among the talents already on board at the club, and subsequently losing their reputations as once promising stars.

 

Such behaviour will ultimately do no favours for Manchester City either though. This is just a temporary venture for the club’s wealthy owners who will likely one day become bored with his particular scheme, and move their money elsewhere. Such behaviour is simply the nature of those who can seemingly get what they want at the click of a finger. Yes – City now have success and trophies to look back on and celebrate, but the rest of the footballing community ultimately has to feel sorry for the fans.

 

The team’s previous history has pretty much been wiped from the short-term memories of those currently in the game, and as hard as it would be to admit if it were your team, such recent success and triumph will go down as nothing but hollow victories in the long run.

 

For the good of the Premier League, hopefully such rising English talents ultimately don’t end up at a club that will soon grow impatient with them and potentially see them rot on the side-lines in the not too distant future.   

 

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