Gareth Southgate defended his decision to play John Stones for England on Tuesday - saying other key players for Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal were used in the same way.
Meet the man tasked with leading Man City into the future
09.03.2024 - 06:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
There is a line from the poem 'This is the Place' that wraps around the Manchester City first team dressing room at the Etihad Stadium: "Some are born here, some drawn here but we all call it home."
New Academy Director Thomas Krucken falls under the second category: he was drawn to Manchester as a student coach from Germany, picking City as an ideal club to learn his trade. Twenty four years later he is back to lead the academy into a new era. He jumped at the chance to return home, having not forgotten the warmth of the people he met as a student.
The club is unrecognisable from his days getting the Magic Bus to Platt Lane, but Krucken never lost touch with their fortunes. He is now tasked with taking the profitable academy to new heights and at the centre of his plan to do so is finding the 'Player of the Future for the Game of the Future'. A nice slogan with plenty of substance behind it.
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"We have everything we need but the club has tradition," he tells MEN Sport in an exclusive interview - his first since taking over from Jason Wilcox this season. "The tradition is at Platt Lane and Maine Road and Carrington and then here. It's important for me to know where this club comes from and it has a big tradition, the players do not take it for granted to be here."
Krucken speaks fondly of his placement at City in 2000. He remembers the bus drivers with 'CITY' tattooed across their knuckles - and not daring to ask any further questions. He remembers the 'MCFC' graffiti that adorned the walls of Moss
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