Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:56am GMT MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Having vaulted swiftly to the most truly effective of English football thanks to large quantities of money from Abu Dhabi, Manchester City are now purchasing youth development to attempt to maintain their elevated position. The Premier League winners are developing a new baseball academy at a reported price of more than 100 million pounds on property adjacent to their Etihad Stadium in the northern English town. Scheduled to start for the start of the 2014-15 season, it will let City to coach up to 400 young players along side a group of first group professionals constructed at great cost from around the globe. Classrooms and housing blocks will be created to train and house some of the kids, while a 7,000-seater ground will help them to have used to playing before crowds. City's rapid increase within the last five years has been financed by owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, element of Abu Dhabi's ruling family. They have to now fall into line with new regulations requiring groups to move towards breakeven or experience exclusion from European competition. Nevertheless, spending on youth development is excluded from the calculations, making it a doubly useful investment. Remarkable although City ideas are, it will require a change in mindset as well as gleaming new buildings to reverse English soccer's failure to produce enough supreme quality young players, says Patrick Vieira, the former French global who's City's basketball development executive. "With the number of individuals who play the game and the number of young ones who play and love the game, I believe there's inadequate skill compared to what basketball is about in this country," Vieira told Reuters in an interview. "It is just a disappointment because I've been here for years and I love this country, the passion is loved by me from the supporters and the people," included Vieira, who performed for Arsenal for nine times. Vieira, 36, started his playing career in France and also performed in Italy, providing exposure to him to coaching methods across Europe. HAVE FUN He speaks of the necessity for patience with young players, expressing an over-emphasis on effects can stunt the development of talented teenagers. "It is not about winning or losing, it's about how you can improve, how you advance year after year," he said. Growing up in France, he explained the emphasis was on stimulating aspiring professionals to produce consciousness on the subject, understanding how to search for the next move and to produce the right decisions when on the ball. "Just have fun, do not be afraid to play, do not be afraid to make a blunder since most of us make mistakes," said Vieira, describing what teens should be told. "What is essential would be to study from the errors you're making." Its rules have been recently changed by the English Premier League, the richest in the world, allowing the clubs with the top ranked academies to just take people full-time from the age of 12 and get from all over the place. "The big difference if you examine the English, the Spanish or the French or the Dutch kids, I believe offshore the kids are spending more time on the training area compared to the English boy," Vieira said. "The principles changing I think has really improved the quality of the players and I think it's crucial as well that a team like City can get a child from London." The changes put more stress on clubs like City to make sure kids get a complete education on and off the subject. Area have a partnership with a local fee-paying school which allows youngsters to mix education and training. "The education section of it is really quite important, as a football club we wish these people to become a great human being, the person who can answer most of the issues he'll find in life," Vieira said. Area know they've some catching up to do in contrast to competent European powers when it comes to nurturing their own expertise. "Barcelona have been doing it for the final 35 years and we have just been doing it for several years and we're a, long way behind," Vieira said. "But within the next four to five years I hope that we will have young people who will come through the academy and because we've some great young players." play for the first group (Editing by Sonia Oxley)
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