Joleon Lescott

Again, like other players, we just underestimate that.

how important it is to play and learn.

If you can play 50 consecutive games or at any stage of your career is a big achievement.

Yeah, we've got another player out there.

Eric Palmer-Brown is playing for Austria-Vienna, so I'll go and spend some time with him and there, set up and help develop him on the training ground, which again is different.

The role changes, various clubs.

Some clubs are more accommodating to me taking part in training sessions and helping add a bit more detail to what they're teaching their team.

No, they've got to be realistic about it.

And Phil Foden, obviously, what he's done is unique in terms of the size of the club.

But to expect, what, 90% of the Man City Academy to come and just go straight into Man City's first team is unrealistic ask of them, of the coaches, because City are now signing, what, the top two, three best players in their recognised position.

So expect an 18-year-old to be that, having never played a first-team game, is a...

I don't know in terms of Man City's first team and when that is.

I don't know what that looks like.

But in terms of creating opportunities for these players to have careers, I think it should be more than, say, the average academy set-up.

I do believe that with the coaching and facilities and all that stuff.

And the mentality side of it, I think that's underestimated how important that is, the approach, the application to being a footballer.

I think we should definitely be giving more opportunities to our academy players due to the level they've been used to.

Yeah, definitely at Wolves again.

So I kind of can relate to the lads that are going on loan.

Some of them view it as it's a step down, but it's not.