He left Barcelona in 2014 without ever making an appearance. Unfortunately, young Sergio didn’t quite have the ability of his Argentinian namesake. Sergio AyalaĪ centre-back called Ayala? Sounds promising. He left the Potters in 2018 and is now turning out for Saudi Arabian outfit Al-Arabi. Premier League viewers may remember his five-year stint at Stoke City. Marc MuniesaĪnother that featured prominently as a youngster for Barcelona’s B Team without ever making it past the periphery of the senior set-up, Muniesa has enjoyed a half-decent career since leaving his boyhood club in 2013. He made over a hundred appearances for Celta Vigo, played a role on the fringes as Sevilla won the Europa League in 2019-20, and is now back in Catalonia, turning out for Barca’s city rivals Espanyol.
Gomez left the club in 2014 and has gone on to forge a respectable career in Spain. The local-born centre-back clocked up nearly a century of appearances for Barca B between 20, but his only appearance for the first team was a 3-1 defeat to Sevilla in the 2010 Super Cup (Guardiola’s men went on to overturn the result with a 4-0 victory in the second leg). A fair few of them have gone on to enjoy decent top-level careers, but this list shows that you can’t produce once-in-a-generation talents like Xavi, Busquets and Pique every year. They had no shortage of promising youth prospects emerging to help bolster the first-team squad.įM 2013 earmarked no fewer than 15 wonderkids at Barcelona that year (via FM Scout). Guardiola left Barcelona in the summer of 2012 and his former assistant Tito Vilanova was tasked with getting La Blaugrana back on their perch after Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid beat them to the La Liga title with a hundred-point tally. The likes of Xavi, Sergio Busquets and Gerard Pique played vital roles in Barcelona conquering the world, and there was a clamour to see who the next big things to emerge from the club would be.
When Football Manager 2013 was released back in November 2012, Barcelona’s La Masia academy was at the height of its prestige.Įarlier that year, Pep Guardiola had fielded an entire XI of academy graduates.
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