Sa Manchester City ya doke Chelsea 3-2 a wasan karshe na FA Youth Cup na shekarar 2020, jami'an Blues sun shaida wani abu da zai tsara dabarun saye na kulob din shekaru masu zuwa. Wasu daga cikin 'yan wasan da suka cutar da su a wannan dare yanzu suna sanya rigar Chelsea ɗaya—da aka siyo da jimlar kuɗi da ke kusantar £300m.

Sabon mai zuwa shine Morgan Rogers, wanda aka sayo da rikodin kulob na £117m, wanda ya zura kwallo a ragar Chelsea Under-18s a waccan wasan karshe. Yana shiga Cole Palmer, Liam Delap, Romeo Lavia, Jamie Gittens, da Tosin Adarabioyo—duk tsofaffin ɗaliban makarantar Manchester City—a cikin tawagar farko ta Xabi Alonso.

A daya bangaren kuma, ana sa ran Alonso zai sami 'yan wasa uku ne kawai daga makarantar Cobham ta Chelsea a cikin tawagar babba ta dindindin: kyaftin Reece James, dan baya Levi Colwill—wanda ya buga a waccan rashin nasarar 2020—da kuma dan baya mai albashi Josh Acheampong.

Tasirin Palmer da falsafar da suka raba

Daya daga cikin manyan dalilan sha'awar Chelsea ga 'yan wasa da City ta horar shine nasara mai ban mamaki ta Palmer, wanda ya zo Stamford Bridge a shekarar 2023 da £40m da karin £2.5m, ya kuma kafa kansa a matsayin daya daga cikin 'yan wasa mafi tasiri a Premier League.

Wani tsohon mai ciki ya shaida wa BBC Sport cewa 'yan wasa da suka fito daga tsarin City «sun san yadda nagarta take»—ma'auni na al'ada da Chelsea ke sha'awar karba.

Muhimmin mutum da ke haɗa kulob biyu shine Joe Shields, wanda a baya ya kasance wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar daukar ɗalibai ta makarantar Manchester City kuma yanzu yana da hannu sosai wajen daukar matasan 'yan wasa da 'yan wasa manya a Chelsea. Kulob din kuma yana daukar mai horo Calum McFarlane da daraktan makarantar Glenn van der Kraan, dukkansu tsofaffin ma'aikatan City.

Tsohon shugaban horon Chelsea Enzo Maresca da wasu daga cikin ma'aikatansa na horo sun fito ne daga Etihad, yayin da Tom Glick ya yi aiki a takaice a matsayin shugaban kasuwancin Chelsea bayan ya bar City. Maresca ya koma Manchester City tun daga lokacin.

Me ya sa City ke samar da yawan 'yan wasa da za a iya sayar da su

A karkashin Pep Guardiola, Manchester City ta dage kan yin gogayya da kowane babban taken, wanda ya sanya ya zama da wahalar sosai ga tsofaffin ɗalibai makarantar shiga tawagar farko. Yayin da aka ba wa wasu 'yan wasa kwangilolio amma suka zabi ci gaba da buga wasan a wani wuri—Palmer da Jadon Sancho a cikin su—wasu, kamar Rogers, an yi musu hukunci cewa ba su shirya ba don wannan matakin.

Ga City, sayar da 'yan wasa da aka horar a gida yana ɗauke da fa'idar kuɗi: bisa ƙa'idodin lissafin Premier League da UEFA, kuɗin da ake karba don 'yan wasa da kulob ɗin ya horar za a iya rubuta su a matsayin riba tsantsa. Chelsea sun yi aiki da wannan ma'anar bisa hanya ta kishiya, suna sayar da Tyrique George ga Everton wannan rani saboda wannan dalili.

Gadon makarantar Chelsea

Chelsea sun kammala kakar da ta gabata ba tare da kofuna ba kuma a matsayi na 10 a Premier League, amma tawagoyinsu na matasa sun lashe darajojin gasar da ta ƙasa da kofuna a rukuninsu—alama da ke nuna cewa bututun hazaka ya ci gaba da ƙarfi duk da manyan canjin shugabanci.

Makarantar Cobham ta kasance a baya karkashin jagorancin Neil Bath da Jim Fraser, wanda aikinsu ya haifar da lashe FA Youth Cup sau biyar a jere, gami da nasarori uku a jere kan City—daidai da rikodin Manchester United da Busby Babes suka kafa a shekarun 1950. Chelsea kuma sun lashe UEFA Youth League a shekarar 2015 da 2016, suna zama ƙungiyar Ingila ta farko da ta samu wannan.

Sai dai hana sayarwa ta 2019 saboda take ƙa'idojin daukar matasan 'yan wasa, da kuma ƙuntatawa da suka biyo baya da ke da alaka da zamanin Roman Abramovich, sun katse ci gaban makarantar. Wannan hana sayarwa na farko ya samar da damar tawagar farko ga tsofaffin ɗalibai da dama—Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount, Fikayo Tomori, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Andreas Christensen, da Reece James—a karkashin Frank Lampard. Wadancan kwanaki yanzu sun ji da nisa.

Bayan Fraser ya tafi bayan sabani da shugabancin kulob, Bath ma ya tafi, kuma tsofaffin ma'aikatan Manchester City sun karbi mukamai na babba a makarantar—wani sauyi da ya bai wa da yawa mamaki a duniyar kwallon ƙafa ta matasa a Ingila, inda labaran gasa mai zafi tsakanin tsarin matasa na kulob biyu suke raye sosai.

Gasa da ta canza

Liam Delap, wanda yanzu zai horana tare da tsofaffin abokan hamayyarsa, ya bayar da ra'ayi mai gaskiya game da wadancan gogayya. Ya shaida wa BBC Sport: «Mun ƙi junan mu a wasanni,» kafin ya ƙara da cewa: «Amma yanzu duk mun girma sosai har za mu iya zama abokai a wajen filin. Na taɓa buga wasa kan Levi [Colwill] kowace shekara. Babban faɗa ne.»

Gareth Taylor, manajan tawagar mata ta Liverpool, wanda ya shafe shekaru tara a makarantar Manchester City, ya tuna yadda falsafar horo mai wahayi daga Johan Cruyff da Guardiola—wanda a wani bangare tsohon mai horo na FC Barcelona Rodolfo Borrell ya kafa—ta tsara tsatsa na 'yan wasa. Ya bayyana Rogers a matsayin «mai kyau sosai kuma mai tawali'u sosai,» Palmer a matsayin dan wasan da «kan zagaya kan abokan hamayya» kuma wanda «ba zai taɓa jin tsoro ba,» da kuma Delap wanda kan buga wasa da «haske na gaske.»

Da Xabi Alonso yanzu ke jagoranci, Chelsea za su yi fatan cewa haɗa wannan DNA na City da sabbin ka'idojin kansu zai ƙarshe kawo kofunan da jarin su ke bukata.