Manchester City take on Aston Villa on Saturday and will be reunited with one of their more successful academy graduates - but he didn't make them any money.
First, of proving people wrong and taking his chance with both hands when it comes. Second, of playing so well in a particular cup tie that the opposition spend millions to sign him.
"In the back of my head I knew it was the right thing for my career and something I could never turn down," he said. It was a bit weird but ultimately I knew I had to do it and it could be a once in a lifetime opportunity. As much as I would have loved to stay at home and be around people I grew up with, I knew for my career I had to take myself out of my comfort zone."
The irony is that Rogers didn't really make City any money, yet he is perhaps on track to have the best career from the group behind Palmer. Signed for £4m, he left for Middlesbrough for a loss in 2023, before the £15m switch to Villa shortly after. A 25 per cent sell-on clause means City will roughly break even on the player.
"My ultimate goal is to play for City's first team and to do that I have got to take myself out of my comfort zone and go and experience things and improve in certain areas, toughen up and do all these things to try and improve my game to the level I want to get to," he said in his MEN interview while on loan at Blackpool.
And City hold no regrets over how things worked out. In fact, they are incredibly proud of another homegrown talent on the biggest stage. It wasn't just training with City's world class first-team that moulded Rogers. He admits that he was initially starstruck when he joined senior training, telling the MEN: "Once you go you don't really want to go back to the other pitch and train with your own age group! You try your best and hope you get recognised and you will do, one thing about City is that if you do well you stay there.
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