The Dutch youngster has made his breakthrough with Hertha Berlin after accepting he would not make the first team at the Etihad Stadium <\/p>\n
Netherlands winger Javairo Dilrosun has fired a dig at former club Manchester City for treating their players like “merchandise”.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old has made 12 appearances for Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin’s\u00a0first team this season after joining them in May this year.<\/p>\n
He didn’t not get beyond City’s Under-23 squad before moving to the Berlin club and, though he has warm words about manager Pep Guardiola’s personal influence on him, he is less complimentary about the Blues’ behind-the-scenes\u00a0operations.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n “City are like a company,” he told ELF Voetbal <\/em> . “Players are their merchandise.<\/p>\n “I didn’t really speak much face to face with Guardiola, but I’ve learned so much from just watching him.<\/p>\n “He gave some great advice that made me a better player – details about my first touch for example.<\/p>\n “And he’s a very capable of explaining his tactics to his players.”<\/p>\n Dilrosun spent four years at City after joining them in 2014 from Ajax.<\/p>\n And the youngster, who has now broken into the national squad, believes the Dutch club has changed since his time there.<\/p>\n “It’s kind of strange that a lot of young wingers are educated at Ajax, but have their breakthrough elsewhere,” he added.<\/p>\n “In my case it took too long before they offered me a contract. I’m not saying Ajax did something wrong, but I think they have changed their approach.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Youngsters now receive a contract once they’re 16. Ryan Gravenberch for example, he’s exceptional.”<\/p>\n Ajax are currently trailing PSV by two points in the 2018-19 Eredivisie season, while Manchester City are leading the way in the Premier League, five points ahead of second-placed Liverpool.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Dutch youngster has made his breakthrough with Hertha Berlin after accepting he would not make the first team at the Etihad Stadium Netherlands winger Javairo Dilrosun has fired a dig at former club Manchester City for treating their players like “merchandise”. The 20-year-old has made 12 appearances for Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin’s\u00a0first team this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n