Maybe the players we've had haven't been that good. But then why not? We have to be one of biggest clubs in England dedicated to developing young talent and then blooding them in the first team. We've been at it for over 10 years so I would have thought we'd have gotten lucky at some point. It's not as if our scouts weren't looking for the next big thing in football and dedicated years to finding that player.

Putting aside developing a great individual player, I also question why we never had a class that graduated from the ranks and went into the first team to form a strong unit. The vision was taken from Ajax and some of the players that grew up playing together in the academy and eventually made it to the first team. That team with the De Boar brothers, Kluivert, Davids, Seedorf, Van der Sar, etc. We've that youth graduation system at Barca and even United's treble team with Beckham, Scholes and the Neville brothers. How comes we end up with the Hoyte brothers instead? How comes the guys that came up under Bould are looking like they won't even make it into the first team?

I just would have thought we'd have done better considering our resources and the time we've put into this.