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As I understand it you can buy followers, there's a very healthy market for such provision but think they've bought BOTS which would be totally in line with how the United Arab Emirates and other Sovereign States use them to manipulate and deliver their propaganda.Banned for buying followers apparently.
All their international and academy accounts are still active however.
Bungle still with his finger on the pulse I see..............
Even though I have no interest in supporting the City football money machine, I agree with the point to a degree.
There does seem to be a bit of a dead spot in player development between youth and senior in the PL.
I feel it will only increase the monopoly of the biggest/richest clubs and therefore reduce competition. a) who is going to "support" the B teams home and away and that also has an effect of the gate receipts of the other Clubs playing against them, not just the initial reduction from away fans at their home grounds but with stale atmospheres generated as a direct result over a few seasons this will have a knock-on effect of the other teams support with supporters disinterested if they weren't already put off playing a 'B' team.Even though I have no interest in supporting the City football money machine, I agree with the point to a degree.
There does seem to be a bit of a dead spot in player development between youth and senior in the PL.
Just noticed.... Mystery injury time for Sterling again during international break.
Pisses me off, we seem to be the only team who don't use phantom injuries to protect our players in nonsense games
Id be fine with B-teams if they were stuck in their own league. Keep it separate from the EFL pyramid. Ideally players would just go out on loan or leave on permanents in search of playing time but clubs like City (and to some degree, us) are always going to look to poach talent from the lower divisions.I want to add to this.
Many of the top clubs got their B-teams in the third tier which is the maximum level they can reach in the pyramid. The problem with the B-teams is that you'll never know which team you will face because it is too easy to swap players from A-team to the B-team.
It's especially difficult in the end of the season if the B-team is in relegation zone. They will do anything to keep their recruit team in the division and to not lose talents so it's not unusual that they play full strength teams with 7 or 8 players from the A-team.
This is totally unfair for the smaller clubs who either is denied promotion or who are relegated in expense.
The FA has just started dealing with these problems and the third tier is now becoming more professional and B-teams is now denied promotion to this level to encourage the top teams to loan out more of their talents to lower division teams.
If England wants to go this way you'll at least have to make sure the B-teams aren't allowed anywhere near the EFL leagues. And then, what's the f**ing point anyway.