I fear for some of these young talents, I mean how do these kiddos expect to get into our first team 'en masse'. Will we ever see a team of Rekik, Razak, Suarez, Nimely, Guidetti, Assulin, Baton/Bator and co. It just will not be happening. Assulin looks like a right player, and Suarez too, and the rest have all had some sort of top level exposure.
F.f.s Assulin was touted the new Messi when we brought him in. What was that 18-24mo's ago now? Has he even sniffed the league, or even at that, first team action?
Our academy I fear, will just end up being a feeder system for other clubs. I suppose when f.f.p comes into effect, the academy will look a lot more important again, and when the new training complex goes up it will also thrust our youth into the forefront again. However until those things happen, the youngsters and kids down at the academy are just simply not going to be playing at Eastlands anytime soon.