Fiorentina loan signing Micah Richards fears for the young players at Manchester City.
Richards admits he has doubts over whether City's current youngsters will ever emulate his achievement of breaking into the first team.
Dedryck Boyata, a Belgian, is the only 'club-trained' player in City's Champions League squad.
"It's going to be hard for them to come through. If you look at the squad now there's 22 international players," Richards said. "You're going to have to be extra special to get through. Hopefully, the new facilities they are building will help to bring young players through. It would be nice to see more coming from the academy, but the standard's pretty high now.
"The manager [Pellegrini] always said if you're good enough, you'll get a chance. I hope he sticks to his word. But I decided I wanted to go somewhere where I had the opportunity to be No 1."
