One main reason that not us much youngsters are coming through is because of the influx of foreign players in the game.
there you go that's a massive change, and not forgetting foreign owners foreign managers its so easy to sign an experienced player from europe for a couple of million rather than give a youngster a season to see how they do, we're a perfect example look at poulsen we brought him instead of having spearing as our 3rd or 4th choice CM we have players like maxi, cole and the greek in and around our first team and we have youngsters like ayala and amoo and now pacheco out on loan we've also had tom ince out on loan this season. if we had a top 2/3 team who were competitive in the CL i wouldn't mind us ignoring these youngsters but were sh!t we have so many sh!t players who will never improve they'll actually get worse from now on. how you can watch players like the greek, maxi, cole, poulsen and not think you'd rather see a talented youngster given a go is beyond me