Barca's youngsters have been significantly better than ours in reality and they don't focus on the youth policy as we do.Originally Posted by gunsofashburtongrove
Barcelona is a good example of this, they have a good bunch of players promoted from the academy over the years Puyol, Xavi and Messi are all diffeerent batches of youth. They add Ibra, Ronaldinho, Henry, Mascherano, Villa, Alves etc to that mix where they cannot find quality in-house replacements
They have and always will buy in top players (at very high prices though), the fact they bring through young players is pretty amazing considering the talent these players are up against, they're a good example of how you can bring through top young players without it being your sole focus.
The issue with our policy is that for years all we've card about is the kids, there's no balance and we've not repaed the rewards of the policy we've adopted.
With the amount of resources we've spent on youht I would have expected better results in terms of the quality coming through, there's 2-3 that have been good the rest are nothing special.
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