Mixed Feelings On Loaning Out Manchester City's Young Talent To British Football

Although John Guidetti isn't an Academy or EDS player any more, his on field progression has been hampered by what I believe is a lack of belief in the lad by Mark Hughes. While his situation at Stoke has appeared to teach Guidetti patience is important, I don't believe his stint with the Potter's has improved his game much.

Loan Success?   4/10

Looking at the bigger picture we have quite a few future prospects out on loan, but my beef is that they're not getting enough game time and half the time end up picking up niggling injuries and sometimes serious injury. So is it really worth sending our young lads out on loan to the lower combative leagues of British football?

Lets face that fact that none of our youth have come back better off after being loaned out to British clubs for as long as I can remember, I'd challenge anyone to prove me wrong on this and Joe Hart can't be used as an example because he was already a success before joining Birmingham.

Championship side Birmingham City currently fighting relegation, who have two of our lads on loan to date, Our Welsh International Midfielder Emyr Huws has impressed and held down a place but recently suffered a severe cut to his head thanks to Jason Lowe of Blackburn Rovers (No surprise there aye). The loan spell of Albert Rusnak however has been far from helpful, he's been out on loan since the 21st January 2014.

However our 19 year old Dutch Centre Back Karim Rekik is out on loan at PSV Eindhoven, he's impressed and held down a place well with reports claiming he's attracted attention from a host of European clubs.

OK OK English football is a man's game blah blah blah, but the fact of the matter is our talented youth or not yet men. So why ship them out to our tough tackling lower leagues only to be kicked around the playing field? Wouldn't it be more productive to send them out to less physical leagues in and around Europe while advise them to work on their Physical strength?

Our England Midfielder George Evans has had an unsuccessful Loan out to Crewe Alexandra, after initially impressing at the start of his loan spell. While our 20 year old England Winger Alex Henshall has had a mixed loan spell out at Ipswich Town.

All the talk has been of how Manchester City are ruining young players careers, the fact is City are not the problem at all. Which brings me to our little sister club New York City FC, I believe her to be a good alternative for our youth to develop better, quicker and faster. I even believe Germany, Portugal and Spain to be better options at earlier stages in our youth development.

City ruining young players careers has been based on Adam Johnson  Jack Rodwell, Scott Sinclair and co by narrow minded morons, players who never came through our youth system and players who clearly failed to make an impact on our senior side due to either laziness and arrogance (Adam Johnson), through unfortunate injury (Jack Rodwell) or not being good enough or City (Scott Sinclair).

Something definitely needs to be done to improve our loan progression, if we are to get our youth to push on and up their potential enough to impact our senior side and make the grade. Loaning them out to any club in a league lower than the Championship is just not good enough for a start (no disrespect to those leagues clubs), when they can get the same if not more experience in our EDS side playing European youth football.

What do you think?