Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola hailed the investment in their academy and says the emergence of Micah Hamilton, Oscar Bobb, Rico Lewis and Phil Foden shows it is working
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00:00 The academy here was opened 9 years ago, 2014.
00:05 How important is that academy for the sustainable future of this football club?
00:11 And tell us how far you think Oscar Bob and Micah Hamilton can go after their performances
00:15 last week.
00:16 Well, Oscar is a player for the first team, Micah is a second team.
00:19 So we need him, but his place is there.
00:22 But it is really good, the impact he has in the game.
00:26 So all the big clubs, the academy is an important part of many things.
00:35 So we just see what happened in the last 5-6 years with academy players, when they help
00:39 us to us.
00:40 Otherwise they make a career away with a good transfer for the clubs and to be sustainable
00:47 economically and financially.
00:51 I know how important it is for our fans, for our people, to identify the young lads like
00:58 Rico, Phil, Micah as well.
01:00 So all of them come from 7, 8, 9 years old and after being already in the first team
01:08 is something phenomenal.
01:11 So continue to work on that and hopefully in the future we can have more players than
01:15 this.