Gary Neville has called it right - Chelsea and City win the youth cup every year. Half of those English youth squads are made up of City and Chelsea players. Yet very few, if any, will get senior game time.
Kids need to make footballing decisions over money ones. This is where the FA should be focussing.
Gary Neville is never right.
In the past youth would play alongside senior players returning from injury, in the reserve league. They don't do that anymore, the current youth leagues are miles below the level of football played at senior level. To counter that teams are sending players on loan.
It is very easy to blame teams, but excelling at youth football does not guarantee you will succeed at senior level. It is wildly reported that England has nowhere near the numbers of trained coaches as countrys like Germany or Spain.
In this article it states
a coach would have to invest over £4,000 to reach Uefa A status from scratch. This is why so many of the people who climb the coaching ladder seek financial support from their clubs.
in Germany, a country that rarely struggles to qualify for tournaments and who are, after all, the World Cup holders, the Uefa A course fee is only €800
If the FA has the money to build one of the most expensive stadiums in the world, surely they can afford to make it more affordable for coaches to get trained.
Note, I used Italics instead of a quote, as it screwed up the post.