Anyone still questioning Manchester City’s desire to bring through their own youth players into the first team needs to take a look around the club’s new academy facility.
The £150 million venture, which has been bankrolled by the club's owner, Sheikh Mansour, officially opened in December after painstaking research that analysed some of the world’s very best sports development initiatives. The City Football Academy (CFA) is up there with the finest in the land.
No stone has been left unturned in what is one of the most emphatic statements of intent imaginable. There are 16.