Get the biggest City transfer window stories, analysis and updates delivered straight to your inbox Four members of Manchester City’s 2008 FA Youth Cup-winning team featured in the national squads at Euro 2020.
That is a timely reminder that, for all the idle chatter about the Blues having no history, and simply buying success, they were turning out winners long before Sheikh Mansour’s fortune transformed the club.
And with Kasper Schmeichel being among seven other Euro stars that were either produced by City, or received some of their football education there, the club’s influence on top-level football has been significant in the last decade.
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