Has Wenger faiiled to develop our young players?

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Yes, you are wrong.

Suarez? Ibrahimovic? But that may be cheating because they arrived around 19/20 and they're the young import players that haven't come from the academy.

How about Wesley Sneijder? De Jong? Van der Wiel?

Aren't a couple of Spurs players Ajax boys? Van Vaart and Eriksen? If we're going to talk about international players we can throw Blind in their if we're talking Gibbs and Wilshere. Throw Vermaelen in their too.

I'm not saying it's a magical flick of the switch. I'm just wondering why and how we dedicated so much time to come up with nothing. Ajax are committed to producing Dutch players from their academy, so they are slightly restricted in what they can do. But if they do what we have done and import young players from an early age before their 20s, you can see they had two of the best strikers in the world at their club early. We attempt to do the same but nothing comes of players like Vela and Denilson. I'm not even asking why we haven't produced a Messi. I'd be happy if we produced players that Premiership level quality and not Championship. Plenty of other Ajax players I could mention.

Ajax have produced a stream of very good young players since the 90's that's a fact, to this day they still produce some top talent who move on and become top class, to claim otherwise it totally ridiculous.

As for Barca, there's a few other players like Pique, Pedro (you could argue Bellerin) and a few others, but the fact is they also have stacks of money and therefore buy in a lot of top stars thus limiting to some extent the route to the 1st team for young players, we don't have that issue as we've long focussed on young players and allowing them to feature in the 1st team.