Exciting things are happening at Manchester City.
After a decade laden with silverware and beautiful football, Pep Guardiola's side is gradually developing a distinctly Mancunian flavour.
Every football fan wants at least some local players coming up through the ranks and representing their team. It's not more important than winning or the style of football the team plays, but it makes every achievement feel just that little bit more special.
City have regularly been criticised over the years for buying in talent instead of giving youth teamers a chance, but now the City Football Academy, founded in 2014, is starting to bear fruit.
Phil Foden is the standard-bearer of course, a once in a generation talent who will surely be leading City and the England national team for years to come.
Three years after Foden burst onto the scene, Cole Palmer is doing the same. The 19-year-old attacker, born and raised in Wythenshawe, scored his first goal for Guardiola's side in September in the Carabao Cup.
A month later he scored his first in the Champions League, and on Friday night he scored his first in the FA Cup. All three were brilliant strikes worthy of a seasoned professional, never mind a teenager of his inexperience.
However, it is of paramount importance that we do not get carried away, no matter how much we want to live our City dreams through local-boy Palmer.
Young players, no matter how good they are, will make mistakes on and off the pitch. Just because they are exceptionally good at kicking a ball around a pitch doesn't mean that they don't experience the same issues that everyone does in their younger years.
Take the Foden and Mason Greenwood incident in Iceland in September 2020, when the pair breached Covid rules while on England duty.
Yes, it was an exceptionally foolish thing to do, but the backlash at the time was out of proportion. The trouble with idolising home-grown players is that when they slip up it hurts twice as much.
The same can be said of Foden's night out with Jack Grealish after City thrashed Leeds 7-0 in December. Again, it was a bad decision, but not one worthy of suggestions that Foden is going off the rails. What 21-year-old hasn't made daft choices?
The same could very well happen with Palmer. Nineteen is a very young age to be bursting through into the limelight, but as was the case with Foden, Guardiola will do his best to carefully manage him so to protect him from scrutiny and burnout.
If he puts in poor performances from time to time, that's okay. If he makes a few bad decisions off the field as he navigates his start to adult life, that's okay too.
Having a team with more academy graduates in it requires patience from all involved. Supporters must make their expectations realistic, the players must not demand more minutes too soon and the manager must trust the youngsters to learn from experience.
For Palmer, there is no better place to launch his career than City.
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