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By Chris Waddle
Former England international
Where is Phil Foden? It’s a puzzle to me.
England will win Euro 2020 following summer and Manchester City’s teenage midfielder should be in Gareth Southgate’s side that will assist them attempt.
If he was playing for City in the Premier League, he then would do the same for England. I don’t have any doubt about this.
At 19, he’s good enough to do – he’s that special. Also as his skill is that he gets from the box.
I had been moaning that did not happen frequently enough when I was co-commentating about England’s game against Kosovo earlier this month, also he would be the response – a midfielder who makes and scores goals, that is something supervisor Southgate doesn’t have in the moment.
But he appears to be stuck on the fringes of City’s first team and we’re left to wonder why he isn’t getting any sport time this season while his boss Pep Guardiola tells everyone he’s the most talented player he has ever seen.
It does not add up. I am not stating that Foden has to depart City. But I’m considering his development, and something should change.
He needs to be playing with top-level football today, and he must be requesting Guardiola he isn’t giving him any if he rates him highly.
If I were him, I’d be yanking the door of Guardiola , saying:’Look, since I am missing out on opportunities here, I need to play.’
We understand how great Foden is from opponents, also for England Under-21s. I wish to see him examined in the Premier League.
When he has recovered from a stomach bug, I expect Foden will receive his first competitive club start of the season against Championship side Preston on Tuesday from the Carabao Cup (19:45 BST).
But he has already made his mark on such competition, when he made his breakthrough at the first team .
Repeating exactly the same pattern as last term – when played 25 matches, but mainly began against lower-division resistance in the early rounds of the national cups and a few lifeless rubber Champions League matches – would not represent progress, and it is also not what he desires.
It is Premier League minutes that count and, in that regard, Foden has really gone backward from 2018-19.
At this phase of last year, he had played with 36 minutes – including stoppage time – of top-flight soccer in City’s first six league matches.
Just a year ago on, so much he’s had only 16 minutes, again when you count additional time, which all came later he had been brought on late at City’s opening-weekend win at West Ham. It’s inadequate.
Yesif he had been well enough, it is possible to assert he would have been given a more game time at the previous week, even in City’s persuasive Champions League triumph over Shakhtar Donetsk or their 8-0 destruction of Watford.
But I am not convinced that would have been the situation. He was left to the bench as an substitute for their additional four Premier League games – from Tottenham, Bournemouth, Brighton and Norwich – and it appears that his situation has not changed.
I could understand Foden is not playing much. City have got so many celebrity names and big hitters that are playing nicely, therefore Foden faces a struggle simply to get on the pitch before Kevin de Bruyne, David Silva or even Bernardo Silva.
Chelsea’s emerging players ‘ in a different position because of their club transfer embargo, but Foden has to have observed Blues forward Mason Mount come on in England’s previous two Euro 2020 qualifiers and thought:’That should’ve been me’
Foden has shown his ability when he’s played with the England Under-21 team – appear at the goals this month, that he scored – but that is the only stage he has had.
It has meant he has dropped from the order behind Mount, and now there are likely four or five players ahead of him to get a spot in the senior squad now.
While he is a participant at City, that is not going to change.
We’ve heard Guardiola say Foden isn’t assertive enough, therefore the very first thing I’d do if I had been him is go and talk to his manager, and inquire what the circumstance is.
I am certain that it has been talked about by them . Most see foden as being the natural successor to David Silva, who is departing City at the season’s conclusion, and it might be that Guardiola has told him he will get his place.
But that does not help him today, and it is not enough to just say he’s among the future.
Soccer does not work like that and this season will proceed quickly, when Foden does not do something about his situation. He could wind up wasting it.
Naturally he has some options about what happens next, although a contract was signed by foden in Etihad Stadium in the end of last year.
There have been lots of other examples of talented young players not getting their opportunity who either put their nightclubs under pressure to play them like Callum Hudson-Odoi in Chelsea, for example – or decided they had to depart.
Mount went ahead last season, while Jadon Sancho was brave enough to leave City permanently for Borussia Dortmund in 2017, and currently he is receiving his reward.
He is just 64 days old than Foden, however he is miles ahead of him in how his career has improved.
Each one have done things to Foden. It there are going to be players after them, and has helped them get in the England team.
Foden benefits from instruction every day alongside the rest of the star-studded team of City, and beneath Guardiola – and now that I understand the debate this is fantastic for him.
However, if he just keeps doing this, he might end up as the forgotten man of England.
He needs football, in the Premier League. While he’s on vacation with his teammates, if he fails to get it, he will be watching Euro 2020 about the TV.
That is what Foden must think about if he’s got the opportunity to leave City on loan. Why wait any longer?
Chris Waddle was talking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
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