I agree with this and the reality is Man City are the modern day Chelsea , they've dominated youth football past few years judging by trophies and international calls ups. Hence why I say we still.need to up our recruitment in tandem with all other factors .Sorry guys, I'm not buying this "loan wasn't a good decision" nonsense. The player also has to also prove himself just as every other professional footballer would. The bottom line is, some of our young players are just not good enough to play at the level they have been put up against. Some of them are struggling at Vanarama National level (Kido Taylor-Hart for example).
We need a serious overhaul of our youth recruitment system which I believe is underway following the acquistion of Brayden Clarke. We need to get the "cream of the crop" as the bar has been raised on every level. Tottenham top the U23 and U18's leagues and that's where we need to be if we are going to have a conveyor belt of talent.
Man City seem to produce ready made EFL players who can just walk into their loan teams.
* Taylor Hawood Bellis STARTS at Southampton. Was also starting when he was at Burnley last season.
* Liam Delap STARTS for Hull.
* Jan Couto STARTS for Girona.
* Luke Mbete STARTS for Den Bosch.
* Alex Robertson STARTS for Portsmouth.
Do you see where I'm going with this? The bar has been raised and we need to be up there which I believe we are doing now but the first team needed the investment initially to get us where we are now. We should see more youth recruitment happen in the summer.