• Manager urges patience and says his youngsters need time • Phil Foden ‘will play a lot this season and the next seasons’Pep Guardiola believes
Manchester City could not compete for silverware and league titles if his side were filled with players coming through from the club’s academy. The City manager defended the conspicuous lack of talent emerging to become regular first-team starters.
Players such as Phil Foden have yet to hold down a regular place in the
Premier League and despite the opening of the City academy in December 2014 the club still buy in big-name players rather than pushing forward the youngsters they have nurtured themselves.
Chelsea, albeit because of a transfer embargo, are now doing the latter with some success.