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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know how much you might actually know about Barcelona, but they haven’t had their trademark style of play in years. They morphed into a more direct team when Neymar was there, and after he left they’ve used a 4-4-2 in big matches. Definitely not the style or tactics that people associate with the club. Btw, a proactive style in which players try to be protagonists IS the best way to develop youth players, that’s indisputable.[/quote]

Indisputable?  Given the Barça brand, the amount of money available to the club, and the history of La Masia, Barca is able to land the top youth players in the world.  Yet what have they really developed in the last 10 years?  Adama Traore and Hector Bellerin may be the only youth players from that time frame who regularly start for a current Premier League team.  Thiago may be the only youth player who regularly starts in the Bundesliga.  I don’t think any former youth players in the last 10 years regularly start for a Ligue 1 or Series A team. Sergi Roberto may be the only regular starter for Barcelona that was a youth player in the last 10 years. Maybe I am missing some people, but that is a quite poor rate of return given how many hugely hyped youth players join La Masia. [/quote]

I said a proactive style in which players try to be protagonists. I wasn’t talking about any specific academy, club, etc. If you have an axe to grind, that’s your problem. Barça isn’t the only place that has such a playing style, and your point about not many players from La Masia being on the first team is worthless because it ignores the fact that the people who run the club want to build the roster by signing Galacticos, which is a failed model and has landed Barça where they’re at. Young talent is not given a proper chance and it doesn’t really matter whether they’re good enough or not when that’s the case. [/quote]

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