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Evans got 1 min the the league cup, Roberts has 4 mins in the league (when they were 4-1 down with 4 to go against us) and 35 in the league cup and Iheanacho has 23 mins in the league. That is a combined total of 27 mins in the PL and 36 mins in the league cup between those 3 players. Alli alone has 411 mins of PL, 180 in the EL and 15 in the league cup, Winks has 14 mins of EL and Carroll (not young, but still and academy player not broken into the side) has 24 PL, 90 EL and 90 LC.
You have to remember that unlike most teams, we have talented 22-24 year olds that (Mason, Carroll & Pritchard) weren't given a chance under previous managers, so we have to see what they are capable of and once we know that, they will either take the place of a more senior squad member (if they fit better) or will be moved on and the likes of Winks, Onomah and Oduwa will be given a go.
Edwards should be looking at the amount of time given to other players by other managers, as a lot of the time, it's token mins here and there, where as Poch seems to play them more consistently, regardless of age or even academy, just look at Dier, Alli, Bentaleb, Mason & Kane.
Ye but Alli was bought for the first team and had 2 seasons of experience under his belt. Carroll even played quite a few EL games for us under AVB and Redknapp and had a PL season loan. I'm not trying to get into this specific debate, but I am just saying that I wouldn't dismiss City being an influence other than their money based off us playing young players who we've bought. They are going to want to see progress and chances given from within, I believe, to know that they stand a chance here.
I agree we need to give others a chance, and sadly even though I wanted to give Carroll a chance we probably need to sell him in Jan to get any money off him at which point we may as well give Winks a chance.
I see what you mean about Edwards but as in most cases, people prefer to give chances to those bought or brought in young rather than their own. I know you believe Poch is responsible for Bentaleb and Kane's chance but I don't think an academy player will see it that way. Once they get a chance they know they could get real game time but I think they will want to see people get that chance first.
Anyway, Edwards will most likely stay, I was just arguing that it wasn't a foregone conclusion as I think that now Man City are starting to use youngsters, them paying more and having great facilities, may give them greater pull than some people expect than young people just getting chances with us