Manchester City are reportable considering making a move for James Ward Prowse this summer, but their reasons are worrying for English football.
Manchester City are supposedly looking at Saints midfielder James Ward Prowse & several other young English players as they look to increase their stock of "homegrown" talent.
But although Raheem Sterling may have a chance of making a start for the City first team, if the likes of JWP sign for City them may soon find themselves the forgotten men of football as City's motives seem to be somewhat about making sure they have a quota of English born players in the squad at rather than signing them with a view of them actually breaking into the City first team.
City lost four Englishmen in the summer Frank Lampard, James Milner, Scott Sinclair and Micah Richards all departing. This leaves only two English players at the club, both goalkeepers, Joe Hart and former Saints keeper Richard Wright who since signing in August 2012 has yet to make a single appearance for City although I'm sure he is being well paid for the privilege. Indeed since leaving St Mary's after his loan spell in May 2008 still then only 30, Wright has only played 61 league games, 46 of them in 2008/09,meaning in the last 6 years he has managed only 15 league games.
So City are looking to sign some promising young talent to meet the homegrown talent quota, but JWP should beware, City have so few Englishmen for a reason and that reason is they prefer to make big name signings from abroad, Ward Prowse has a promising career ahead, it could be ruined if he becomes another in an increasingly long line of young English players lured to City and then disappearing from view.