Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:56am GMT MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Having vaulted quickly to the top of English football thanks to large amounts of cash from Abu Dhabi, Manchester City are now actually investing in youth development to try to maintain their improved status. The Premier League winners are creating a new basketball academy at a reported price greater than 100 million pounds on property adjacent to their Etihad Stadium in the northern English city. Scheduled to open for the start of the 2014-15 season, it'll let City to teach up to 400 young players along side a squad of first group professionals constructed at great cost from around the world. Classrooms and accommodation blocks will be constructed to educate and house some of the children, while a 7,000-seater arena will help them to obtain used to playing in front of crowds. City's rapid increase within the last five years has been funded by owner Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, element of Abu Dhabi's ruling family. They should now belong to line with new regulations requiring groups to go towards breakeven or experience exclusion from European competition. Nevertheless, shelling out for youth development is omitted from the measurements, which makes it a doubly beneficial investment. Impressive although the City plans are, it'll demand a change in attitude along with gleaming new buildings to slow English soccer's failure to make enough supreme quality small players, says Patrick Vieira, the former French international who's City's football development executive. "With the number of individuals who play the game and the number of children who love and play the game, I think there is insufficient ability compared to what football is all about in this country," Vieira told Reuters in an interview. "It is a disappointment since I have been here for years and I love this place, the passion is loved by me from the supporters and the people," included Vieira, who performed for Arsenal for seven times. Vieira, 36, began his playing career in France and also played in Italy, providing exposure to him to coaching practices across Europe. ENJOY IT He speaks of the requirement for patience with young people, saying an over-emphasis on benefits can stunt the development of talented teenagers. "It is not about winning or losing, it is about how you can improve, how you progress year after year," he said. Growing up in France, he explained the focus was on stimulating budding experts to develop awareness on the subject, learning how to search for the next pass and to create the right decisions when on the ball. "Just have fun, don't be afraid to play, do not be afraid to make a blunder since most of us make mistakes," said Vieira, explaining what youngsters should be told. "What is very important would be to learn from the errors you are making." The English Premier League, the richest in the world, has recently changed its regulations to permit the clubs with the top ranked academies to simply take people regular from the age of 12 and recruit from all around the place. "The difference if you compare the English, the Spanish or the French or the Dutch kids, I do believe international the kids are spending more hours on it field compared to the English boy," Vieira said. "The guidelines changing I think has actually improved the grade of the people and I think it is important as well that a team like City can get a child from London." The changes put more stress on clubs like City to make certain youngsters obtain a whole knowledge on and off the field. City have a partnership with a nearby fee-paying school that enables youngsters to combine training and education. "The knowledge part of it is really quite important, as a football club we would like these people to be a good human being, the one who can answer all the issues he will find in life," Vieira said. City realize they have some catching up to do weighed against more established European powers in regards to growing their very own skill. "Barcelona have been doing it for the last 35 years and we've just been doing it for a few years and we're a, long way behind," Vieira said. "But next four to five years I hope that we will have young people who will come through the school and play for the first team since we've some great young players." (Editing by Sonia Oxley)
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