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#3 Kieran Trippier
Bury-born Kieran Trippier, who scored THAT sublime freekick against Croatia in the 2018 World Cup semifinal, joined City's academy aged just 9 years old in the year 2000. He signed his first professional contract with City in 2007 but failed to make a breakthrough to their first team.
He was then loaned out to Barnsley in 2010 and subsequently to Burnley in 2011, who made his contract permanent in January 2012. Under Sean Dyche, the ginger Mourinho, he was instrumental in guiding Burnley to the Premier League in 2014 and signed for Tottenham Hotspur for a paltry £3.5 million a year later.
To put this into perspective, City paid Spurs £50 million for Kyle Walker, who Trippier is sparring with to be the best right-back/right wing-back in the Premier League.
They could have saved millions of that middle eastern oil money, had they been patient with their academy product!
