Who's to say how many you need. It doesn't happen often but if you've got 5 coming through together, keep them, nurture and develop them and enjoy watching them knowing what an achievement it's been. The academy is there for a reason and it's not to develop players for other clubs. Sure that's what also happens as most players won't be good enough and should be sold in fairness to them so they actually get playing time. Developing players that make it into the first team is one of the best things a club can do.
True, I just mean its a massive bonus and very rare.
We went 10 years after Gerrard and carragher with just a couple average enough lads surfacing and vanishing.
If we are really honest what we have now is purchases not youths. Jones is a local youth, trent is a local youth, quansah is not quite but was here from 5.
The ones being talked about like nallo and nyoni are all bought in.
Doak, bajcetic, Clark, McConnell, scanlon, Gordon all bought in.
Vdb, bought in.
We do it to make profit and honestly if we look at the team squad we have kelleher, Bradley as scouted kids from ireland then quansah, Jones and trent as academy and then elliott as the main bought in youth who is in the senior squad.
That's pretty much top of the class for squad numbers being developed cheap.
Arsenal have martinelli and saka and everyone else has been signed by arteta.
City have foden and Lewis and Bobby is like elliott. They've more there as well.
Utd have mainoo and Washford and I'm not sure garancho counts. There's a few behind those as well
Most clubs have a couple.
You.really want to be seeing a couple in each age group just to show you are consistent