This is changing though, the quality of players coming through now is much much better and more of them. We are seeing the start of that now with the youth World Cup winning team starting to come through - we will see more over the next ten years as the youth systems have improved so much, all part of the FA plan and backed by clubs investing.
This has also raised the spectre of English youth players being poached by foreign teams, in numbers, for the first time in my life.
The standard of England’s youth system and players is better now than ever before so this statement of yours just doesn’t fly at all.