Why Chelsea have the best youth academy in the world

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    Chelsea making money from their youth academy is nothing new.
    Between 2015 and 2022, they made hundreds of millions of Euros from their academy. And in the summer of 2023 alone, they’ve raised more than €100m selling homegrown players.
    But what is it that makes their academy better than other Premier League teams? Why is it so good?
    Ryan Baldi writes, Marco Bevilacqua illustrates.
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  • @drift3426
    @drift3426 Před 6 měsíci +1720

    streets won't forget the times when they had more players loaned out than the amount of players on their squad

    • @thespaceageparty9577
      @thespaceageparty9577 Před 6 měsíci +174

      How many teams can say they've made Uefa change the rules before?
      Now how many teams can say they've made Uefa change the rules in multiple categories multiple times?
      You'll never sing that.

    • @Ok-but
      @Ok-but Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@thespaceageparty9577 west london represent

    • @triggerfinger7831
      @triggerfinger7831 Před 6 měsíci +11

      They still have.

    • @MrHubertGreen
      @MrHubertGreen Před 6 měsíci +186

      The streets won't forget that Vitesse side which challenged for the Dutch league with half the team loaned from Chelsea

    • @InvaderZim742
      @InvaderZim742 Před 6 měsíci +9

      @@triggerfinger7831 except they don't

  • @jimmyhurt
    @jimmyhurt Před 6 měsíci +395

    Considering the context, I would say Lampard had success in that 18 month tenure. Top 4 with an incredibly young side is a massive achievement.

    • @MSE2742
      @MSE2742 Před 6 měsíci +8

      But people overlook the fact he was forced into that situation, when he was able to spend money he was absolutely dire.

    • @backupdancer3720
      @backupdancer3720 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @jimmyhurt The squad was not 'incredibly young'...and the young players were good players.
      Lastly, Lampard limped across the line to 4th, and every team from 5th downwards had a weaker squad than Chelsea.

    • @sulaimankhan2353
      @sulaimankhan2353 Před 6 měsíci +16

      @@backupdancer3720Terrible take. He did an excellent job to get 4th that season and an FA cup final after a transfer ban and losing by far our best player in Hazard. Don’t think many managers would have been brave enough to make as many inexperienced academy players first team regulars as he did

    • @backupdancer3720
      @backupdancer3720 Před 6 měsíci

      @sulaimankhan2353 Lampard loyalists are the worst... Name one team that finished below Chelsea in 2019/20 and had a better squad...
      Chelsea produced players good enough for the Premier League but not necessarily the top four, and Lampard benefitted from having those players.
      Go away and google that squad, Pulisic came in along with all the youth players to a squad that had qualified for the CL and won the Europa League.

    • @IceCubE4425
      @IceCubE4425 Před 3 měsíci

      @@backupdancer3720 Leicester was in the top 4 right up into the last day and all pundits if not most were saying we would finish below top 4 and Tottenham who was coached by Mou and had Dele , Son and Kane would finish higher. I watched every game that season too and the pre seasons against Barca etc and the build up.

  • @cuppav2806
    @cuppav2806 Před 6 měsíci +672

    Although not giving any debuts, Sarri got a lot out of Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi and that is still to this day the best they've ever played

    • @jean-paulwalters8855
      @jean-paulwalters8855 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Didn't he not promote them tho?

    • @HamsaT12
      @HamsaT12 Před 6 měsíci +15

      The English media were on sarri's back constantly for not playing them 2. They only start playing matches consistently in the latter part of that season.

    • @hb3393
      @hb3393 Před 6 měsíci +48

      Sarri didn't do a lot right, but he definitely got the best out of RLC

    • @cuppav2806
      @cuppav2806 Před 6 měsíci +9

      Didn't do a lot besides create the last competent system we had bar Tuchel's first half-season

    • @tspcontent4630
      @tspcontent4630 Před 6 měsíci +7

      True, but we never know what they’d be like now if they both hadn’t ruptured their Achilles that season. It’s pretty much the worst injury a sportsman can have

  • @ochoeditz7658
    @ochoeditz7658 Před 6 měsíci +545

    Mason Mount, Nathan Ake, Andreas Christensen, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Tammy Abraham, Billy Gilmour, Tino Livramento, Lewis Hall, Marcin Bulka, Tariq Lamptey, Fikayo Tomori, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Ola Aina, Dominic Solanke, Marc Guehi, Jeremie Boga, Trevoh Chalobah, Armando Broja, Reece James, Levi Colwill, Ian Maatsen, Conor Gallagher are all players who came from Cobham and are playing in the top 5 leagues and at some of the biggest clubs in the world. Not to mention players such as Jamal Musiala, Declan Rice, Eddie Nketiah, Michael Olise and Samuel Iling-Junior who also spent considerable time in the academy.

    • @tyronical5700
      @tyronical5700 Před 6 měsíci +71

      thats actually insane man

    • @FLYINGROMANS
      @FLYINGROMANS Před 6 měsíci +2

      did salah, KDB and Lukaku go to cobham too?

    • @ThabangLebogoTL
      @ThabangLebogoTL Před 6 měsíci +20

      @@FLYINGROMANSno

    • @henrydauseb2844
      @henrydauseb2844 Před 6 měsíci +64

      @@FLYINGROMANSno, they aren’t homegrown talent. They were bought from other clubs where they had already been playing professionally.

    • @Waroyopfami
      @Waroyopfami Před 6 měsíci +3

      Mbappé

  • @DeVoidAS
    @DeVoidAS Před 6 měsíci +53

    3:50 Lampard delivered MASSIVE success over his first 18 months.
    He brought through multiple youth academy players like Mount, Tammy, and James that paved the way for the UCL win in 2021.
    He also got Chelsea to a final that they should have won and got top 4 with a team with a lot of new youngsters and aging talents

    • @kohikappu
      @kohikappu Před 6 měsíci +1

      Tuchel was a better manager, doesn't matter whether Frank achieved this success or not.
      And he is better at developing youngsters instead of a set of tactics to defend from opponents.

    • @RetroFootballFC
      @RetroFootballFC Před 5 měsíci +4

      @@kohikappuhe didn’t say anything about Tuchel lol

  • @utsavmehta33
    @utsavmehta33 Před 6 měsíci +41

    There's a phrase used among Chelsea fans called 'Chelsea's Loan Army' since many many years which only tells you the amount of players that are coming in through the academy and if they don't get the first team chance at Chelsea, they definitely do in the other teams.

    • @InvaderZim742
      @InvaderZim742 Před 6 měsíci +1

      and now thats no longer the case

    • @hb3393
      @hb3393 Před 6 měsíci +5

      The loan army had nothing to do with the academy. That was part of a policy of buying cheap players, loaning them to increase value and then sell at a profit

  • @jimibaboza
    @jimibaboza Před 6 měsíci +279

    The goal of Chelsea's academy wasn't to make players for the first team. It was to make money to avoid FFP problems by selling loads of youth players for a profit. Lampard had no choice but to start his academy players, as soon as the transfer embargo was over they went back to buying in players.

    • @hugolouessard3914
      @hugolouessard3914 Před 6 měsíci +73

      Chelsea's great academy existed long before FFP was even created, what are u talking about?
      For Lampard, it's true, that year he had to do without bringin in players, but he could have done with the first team he had, he wasn't required to play academy players, or not that many at least. They couldn't buy, but they still had a strong squad.
      And I don't like Chelsea, I'm not trying to defend them, but it's simply the truth. Their academy works brilliantly. Was it made only to make money from the start when it was developped in the 2000's? I don't know. But it worked both in making money and in bringing young talent in the team.
      I wish Liverpool had a stronger academy. Of course the Liverpool area has nowhere near the amount of raw talent that greater London has, but I think we can still do better than that, at least in bringing players around 13 to 16 from elsewhere, so they're Liverpool formed and ingrained in the Liverpool system from a young age. At least Klopp loves giving their chance to young players, TAA is the ultimate success of that, and Curtis Jones is proving to be another good example.

    • @crashingdown6924
      @crashingdown6924 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Any prospect of note is not going to want to travel daily to Liverpool any kid from Greater Manchester Yorkshire will just sign with city united Leeds etc London you can get one side of London to the other within an hour.

    • @aliamirdivan8333
      @aliamirdivan8333 Před 6 měsíci +3

      ​@@hugolouessard3914you just destroyed this punk

    • @joraroar
      @joraroar Před 6 měsíci +10

      Say what you want about Chelsea's transfer dealings but, in a world where football clubs are making money from NFTs, profiting off of developing the next generation of footballers is honest dollar.

    • @kohikappu
      @kohikappu Před 6 měsíci

      I wouldn't go that far to demean the quality provided by this Chelesea academy as a Gooner. And it is undeniable that their academy works brilliantly with excellence in professionalism, like a machine.

  • @A-Port-In-Any-Storm
    @A-Port-In-Any-Storm Před 6 měsíci +233

    it's certainly the best in terms of transfer fees recouped for its players, though whether those players are actually worth those fees is another matter entirely. but chelsea's academy is definitely top 3 in the world over the past couple decades

    • @12thMandalorian
      @12thMandalorian Před 6 měsíci +11

      Similar to Real Madrid, produces many average players that are sold for high fees but not many top players

    • @dashawnballard52
      @dashawnballard52 Před 6 měsíci +47

      @@12thMandalorianreal Madrid academy has been bad the past decade

    • @franalytics5995
      @franalytics5995 Před 6 měsíci +13

      ​@@12thMandalorianwe produce many top players, rice, Reece, musiala, etc are all top players from our academy

    • @robert2690
      @robert2690 Před 6 měsíci

      @@franalytics5995
      Chelsea produce them? Did they coach them to become top players?
      Or did other teams coached them?

    • @franalytics5995
      @franalytics5995 Před 6 měsíci +17

      @@robert2690 yes Chelsea coached them to become top players lol, they came as children and we moulded them into top players

  • @deadlyshizzno
    @deadlyshizzno Před 6 měsíci +18

    Good video, my one gripe is it's titled "in the world" while the video is entirely focused on the Premier League

  • @hilmannyusof88
    @hilmannyusof88 Před 6 měsíci +114

    I think the Sarri criticism was skewed: I can accept the point that he didn't give debuts to academy products n didn't visit the academy, but he did more to integrate academy products into the first team n give them minutes (specifically, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi).

    • @thespaceageparty9577
      @thespaceageparty9577 Před 6 měsíci +13

      .... Hey. Do you remember when the board had to literally threaten to FIRE sarri before he played Cho? Or how Cho got his first England start before sarri played him?
      Do not pretend like sarri gave Cho a squad place because he wanted to. He very much didn't.

    • @cfc1905_
      @cfc1905_ Před 6 měsíci +9

      He played Tammy Abraham in pre season and loaned him out at the last minute..he smashed it at Villa and the next for Chelsea. Tomori, Reece James, Mount, Gallagher, Ampadu, Gilmour, even Marcin Bulka now. I get your point, but it could and should have been a lot more. Enough talent was there.

    • @Viewer41
      @Viewer41 Před 6 měsíci +1

      No he didn't.

    • @Oliver_T_03
      @Oliver_T_03 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Not to mention the fact that he was at the very least tasked with achieving UCL qualification whilst implementing a very complex style of play. Putting an academy kid in that situation, coupled with the toxicity in the fanbase at the time due to them not accepting Sarri,, would've killed both the confidence and development of said player
      The fact of the matter is this: the level Chelsea want to play at can only accommodate so many of the Cobham graduates. Most of them end up being remembered (if at all) as mid-table level or lower. The money these sales bring through given the quality of the players sold means it's a no-brainer to sell and reinvest in better

    • @12thMandalorian
      @12thMandalorian Před 6 měsíci +1

      Tbf Sarri was busy buying cigarettes

  • @Delboy0
    @Delboy0 Před 6 měsíci +25

    The irony is they have sold off Chelsea youth products to but foreign youth products that are not Premier League ready.

    • @AintNoWaye
      @AintNoWaye Před 6 měsíci

      what youth products did they sell that are actually good in the premier league? Livramento? thats it lol. Mount sucks, Hall holds bench, Guehi is mid, Rice was like 5 etc

    • @wasp3417
      @wasp3417 Před 6 měsíci +3

      ​​@@AintNoWayeBoth Livermento and guehi pushed for move ,they were given a chance to stay in Chelsea first team but they rejected for more game time and who said guehi is mid and he was top 10 epl defender last season and worth more than 40 million and already some top clubs are scouting him .

    • @munaali840
      @munaali840 Před měsícem

      @@AintNoWaye Declan Rice

    • @AintNoWaye
      @AintNoWaye Před měsícem

      @@munaali840 didnt sell him

    • @munaali840
      @munaali840 Před měsícem

      @@AintNoWaye sold to west ham

  • @cesarvelizp
    @cesarvelizp Před 6 měsíci +5

    Make a video about the breakthrough age and how it affect their career, look at Jack, the ox, Ramsey Cesc and more and how early they went to retire or lose their level and look at players like Cazorla, Giroud and much more still going strong in their 30s but didn’t had an early breakthrough

  • @CaptainQuoll
    @CaptainQuoll Před 6 měsíci +16

    Ajax and La Masia: 👁️👄👁️

  • @jabari7158
    @jabari7158 Před 6 měsíci +135

    Probably top 3 right now. Ajax I understand because they have struggled a lot recently but I think it’s a little too much to put them above la masia still !

    • @FullMetalFishFarmer
      @FullMetalFishFarmer Před 6 měsíci +39

      I think Barcelona produces a few world class talents. Chelsea mass produces upper level players (talent-wise). They are scattered across the top five leagues of Europe. Some are better than others but generally speaking the quality and the quantity is high

    • @Heelo_0
      @Heelo_0 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@FullMetalFishFarmer some of these players don't even succeed at Chlesea senior team let alone other top teams

    • @HamsaT12
      @HamsaT12 Před 6 měsíci +8

      La masia hahahaha. They haven't produced a top player since busquets and he made his debut 15 years ago. La masia isn't that good anymore.

    • @strangerweirdo9963
      @strangerweirdo9963 Před 6 měsíci +23

      @@HamsaT12 are you tripping lmao

    • @HamsaT12
      @HamsaT12 Před 6 měsíci +9

      @@strangerweirdo9963 no I'm not. They had the best academy in the world 15 years ago but since then they hardly produced any top players since with the exception of gavi. Nowhere near Chelsea who has produced an endless amount of top players

  • @AtTheBridgePod
    @AtTheBridgePod Před 6 měsíci +16

    Cobham is certainly the best footballing talent factory in England and one of the best in the world and it’s one of the things I’m so grateful Abramovich invested so heavily in for the last two decades.

  • @obiigwe8349
    @obiigwe8349 Před 6 měsíci +3

    People bringing up La Masia, as if their recent products are populating the first teams of the top teams in leagues across the world (Cobham graduates can be seen at Arsenal, Barca, Man City, AC Milan, Bayern, Man Utd etc.). There is no comparison in the modern era. Chelsea has built a machine, La Masia is a cute craft workshop by comparison.

  • @vitaliivinnychenko3280
    @vitaliivinnychenko3280 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Top 10 clubs with the largest number of graduates playing in the top divisions:
    🇳🇱 Ajax - 86
    🇵🇹 Benfica - 85
    🇵🇹 Sporting - 83
    🇺🇾 Defensor Sporting - 82
    🇦🇷 Boca Juniors - 81
    🇺🇦 Dynamo - 80
    🇦🇷 River Plate - 79
    🇪🇸 Barcelona - 77
    🇺🇾 National - 77
    🇭🇷 Dinamo Zagreb - 74

  • @amarakanneh6628
    @amarakanneh6628 Před 6 měsíci +38

    Better academy than Barcelona? I don’t think so

    • @tobehonestidontknow9368
      @tobehonestidontknow9368 Před 6 měsíci +27

      Better? Maybe not
      Better at making money? Absolutely

    • @LeafyPeach
      @LeafyPeach Před 6 měsíci +13

      Not in direct top talent comparisons but by sheer number of players who are good enough to play in top leagues.

    • @survivor.99
      @survivor.99 Před 6 měsíci +8

      ​@@LeafyPeachat this moment yes...chelsea have produced better players from the academy than Barcelona.

    • @hnaku8748
      @hnaku8748 Před 6 měsíci +20

      Barca might have had higher quality, but overall output Chelsea's better. Whole Europe filled with Chelsea's graduates. Even Barca has one!

    • @survivor.99
      @survivor.99 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@hnaku8748 even the higher quality, its not true...Pedri is up there with musiala.the rest are all the same

  • @PrinceAsh327
    @PrinceAsh327 Před 6 měsíci +5

    What about Barcelona's La Masia?

  • @GOATBryan10
    @GOATBryan10 Před 6 měsíci +6

    Do we? I am not sure about that especially currently cos imo, our academy has fallen off compared to previous years

    • @boney__70
      @boney__70 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Fallen off??😂 Cobham literally top club in PL2 and amongst the best in european competition for youth academy😂

    • @GOATBryan10
      @GOATBryan10 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@boney__70 Yes? We are currently 10th in PL2 & haven’t won the youth cup since 2018 (won 7 of them from 2010 to 2018) or the youth league since 2016. So, not only no trophies for the youth team since then, they also literally needed Chalobah & Sarr (2 1st team players) to play against Spurs on the final day of the 21/22 season to save us from being relegated from PL2. 😂 Also, the quality of players being produced most definitely isn’t as good as previously.
      I am not saying it is all bad but it has definitely fallen off compared to previous years.

    • @footballfan5048
      @footballfan5048 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@GOATBryan10We will see, With Boehly he bought top youngsters like Angelo and some others but they didn't play for Chelsea youth. So we will see about these players that goes to Chelsea youth.

  • @dontmindme6995
    @dontmindme6995 Před 6 měsíci +4

    To all you lot saying Chelsea academy beats La Masia in terms of quantity of output, that's not really the case lads.
    There's of course the top level graduates like Baldé, Gavi, Fati, Kubo and now Yamal, but also a lot of average LaLiga players like Nico, Eric Garcia, De La Fuente, Sergi Gomez, Mingueza, Cucurella, Rafa Mir, Carles Alena, Sanabria, Bellerin, Deulofeu and Rafinha etc. have come through their ranks
    Since they're currently forced to give the youth a chance, the number of solid graduates will only increase for the foreseeable future.
    Actually I'd argue the Chelsea academy beats La Masia in quality of output looking at players like Tomori, James, Guehi or Christensen (and also Mason Mount cause he's really good and you've just forgotten about it)

    • @kaypakaipa8559
      @kaypakaipa8559 Před 6 měsíci

      Reece james, Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount, Loftus Cheek, Gilmour, Christensen,
      have all already won the champions league, Supercup, CwC before age 26! And all played against
      Europes Elite. Reece is now Captain, Mount is United, Loftus & Tomori in Milan, Christensen at Barca,
      Tammy at Roma and won the Conference league. Its quite impresive, though listen
      CHelsea is not on the same level as Barca lol, LaMasia is a different beast

    • @dontmindme6995
      @dontmindme6995 Před 6 měsíci

      @@kaypakaipa8559 idk the last player tthat came through La Masia and was/is actually world class is probably Busquets. Sure the current talents could become that, but as of now the Chelsea graduates from recent years are higher quality

  • @Brascofarian
    @Brascofarian Před 6 měsíci

    "If it's a well oiled machine that they find out about, they don't hang around" said some guy who used to work for them. Great. Nice to get a clear, timely, unbiased opinion

  • @MonkeyOnAcids
    @MonkeyOnAcids Před 6 měsíci +30

    Might be the most profitable but definitely not the best. Barcelona's is definitely better and Benfica's also might be.

    • @samhuggins2656
      @samhuggins2656 Před 6 měsíci +17

      Nope

    • @reverseratiomaster2463
      @reverseratiomaster2463 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@samhuggins2656fym nope

    • @poptraxx418
      @poptraxx418 Před 6 měsíci

      Barcelona no

    • @MonkeyOnAcids
      @MonkeyOnAcids Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@poptraxx418 No? Just this year they popped at least 2 out: Yamal and Fermín. They have Gavi, Balde and Pedri also on their first team. Messi, Busquets, Alba, Ansu Fati, Dani Olmo, Pedro, Icardi, Adama Traore, Giovani dos Santos, Onana, Kubo, all still playing and come from La Masia. Not accounting for many world class retired players like Guardiola, Xavi, Iniesta, Arteta, Fabregas, Valdés, Puyol, etc etc etc .

    • @axel3689
      @axel3689 Před měsícem

      @@MonkeyOnAcids and yamal already has the potential to rise beyond the greats of fut

  • @BarrysGalaxy
    @BarrysGalaxy Před 6 měsíci +30

    The problem is it's very poor from a decision making standpoint. They sell unbelievable players cheaply and buy much worse players to replace them. Rice, Salah, De Bruyne are examples of elite talent that were let go and none of the players Chelsea actually bought were close to this level!!!

    • @Artoo64
      @Artoo64 Před 6 měsíci +30

      Salah and De Bruyne did not come from their academy, they were specifically mistakes made by Mourinho. De Bruyne in particular was an unmissable talent Chelsea fans were screaming at Mourinho not to sell.

    • @footballfan5048
      @footballfan5048 Před 6 měsíci +5

      Rice is a great talent but I will argue that the current Chelsea midfield is any less talent than Rice. Chelsea current midfield is so packed with top talents.
      If winning the league/cup is only determined by the quality of players. Then maybe Chelsea will be the first favourite right now.

    • @shadow_realm47
      @shadow_realm47 Před 6 měsíci +1

      But selling those two gave Chelsea the funds to buy Cesc and Costa, Salah and KDB actually needed a lot of time and patience to properly develop and Chelsea won the league cus of the money made from those sales @@Artoo64

    • @oluwaseyioginni6786
      @oluwaseyioginni6786 Před 6 měsíci +5

      Boy we let go of rice when he was 13/14. Silly to add rice tbh.

    • @davidchandra8722
      @davidchandra8722 Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@Artoo64debruyne was still young and perform poorly when given chance. Also he didn't want to fight for the place of prime Oscar, Mata, Schurle and Willian.
      Mourinho also bought Salah, the board sold him

  • @sreejithramakrishnan5024
    @sreejithramakrishnan5024 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Please do a video on Ajax FC current form

  • @ankurm4100
    @ankurm4100 Před 6 měsíci

    Thanks for your coverage.. ktbbff!

  • @mashoodhassan5556
    @mashoodhassan5556 Před 6 měsíci

    Absolutely spot on this!

  • @chad9971
    @chad9971 Před 6 měsíci +19

    I always had a question about that. Chelsea's youth squad is phenomenal, yet it's not reflected in their first-team squad.

    • @kohikappu
      @kohikappu Před 6 měsíci +8

      It did in 2019-2021 technically speaking. They even won UCL during that period.

  • @kevinobrien5964
    @kevinobrien5964 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Shear numbers ! More in , more out !

  • @fortuneasuoma7073
    @fortuneasuoma7073 Před 6 měsíci

    Do we eve train goal keepers in the academy?

  • @YoElementalGPU
    @YoElementalGPU Před 6 měsíci +9

    La Masia clears them, especially recently

  • @wheatOfTheUK
    @wheatOfTheUK Před 6 měsíci

    west ham might not have a good team right now, but we have made alot of great players, and we are making a lot more

  • @Rezcuz
    @Rezcuz Před 6 měsíci

    Please sort your audio out, on decent headphones, a very high pitch noise is audible at times

  • @zagreus101
    @zagreus101 Před 6 měsíci

    Woah, Crewe were ahead of Liverpool? Where's the video on that!!

  • @Zidanullneun
    @Zidanullneun Před 6 měsíci +3

    La Masia exists

  • @MessiCFC
    @MessiCFC Před 6 měsíci +2

    As a chelsea fan, it is La Masia

  • @flo3029
    @flo3029 Před 6 měsíci +4

    La masia clear

  • @BigSmoke61056
    @BigSmoke61056 Před 6 měsíci +18

    La masia still better

  • @Hami_mase
    @Hami_mase Před 6 měsíci +1

    As much as people give us grief for giving away players, the business has been beneficial

  • @Qualario
    @Qualario Před 6 měsíci +2

    Really hard to sell me on the idea that they’re better than La Masia.

  • @harisahmad7871
    @harisahmad7871 Před 6 měsíci

    5:10 "more than any other club"
    Arsenal with 1 less minute: 😢

  • @zerokrm8980
    @zerokrm8980 Před 6 měsíci +16

    Super frank always contribute in the long term of the club .As a player,,, wow super 8, as a coach first time , he gave the youth academy players the experience of playing in the premier league throughout the season and the youth players of that season are currently playing for big clubs around Europe and built the foundation for Thomas Tuchel to win the champions league that season. The second time as a manager he came back when no manager was available . Its time for redemption for Frank Lampard . Bring him back . The players will respond to him better than Poch.

    • @SparrowHills08
      @SparrowHills08 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Better youth coach than manager

    • @kohikappu
      @kohikappu Před 6 měsíci

      He is a coach with young players development mindset, but his tactic is nothing particular than the usual attacking-minded play with 4-3-3 formation that could've been uncreative hadn't they bought Pulisic.

  • @CaptainQuoll
    @CaptainQuoll Před 6 měsíci +16

    Reported for misinformation

  • @deanpriveacc2754
    @deanpriveacc2754 Před 6 měsíci +44

    The only thing they don't learn is how to put a ball in the net😂

    • @wildeskompositum9556
      @wildeskompositum9556 Před 6 měsíci +7

      Arsenal disagrees

    • @areebsiddiqui758
      @areebsiddiqui758 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Funny cause our best striker since Costa came from the academy and then we sold him. Not saying Tammy Abraham is world class but he's better than the absolute dross we've had in the last 6 years and scored 17 goals in his first season for Chelsea. I'd cry from happiness if Jackson hit half as many this season.

    • @pingusbabyyy451
      @pingusbabyyy451 Před 6 měsíci

      @@areebsiddiqui758 hes got 6 in 11 and getting better with every game?

    • @areebsiddiqui758
      @areebsiddiqui758 Před 6 měsíci

      @@pingusbabyyy451 Bro scored the worst ever hatrick in Prem history. Half of his goals were basically charity from Spurs. And that was after he misses half a dozen chances in that game.
      I agree that he's getting better but he's still a poor finisher by trait, only scores 1 out of every 4 or 5 chances and is way below his xG. I still think we need to go and sign Toney in January and have Jackson be the backup whilst he develops his game.

    • @pingusbabyyy451
      @pingusbabyyy451 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@areebsiddiqui758 hard disagree on toney and on the hat trick being bad? everyone has been saying that but the 3rd goal was actually really good against the most in form gk in the league. also when its haaland or ronaldo its "true strikers goal" and when its jackson or anyone else its "tapin! anyone couldve done it!" so cringe

  • @TheCreativeLlama17
    @TheCreativeLlama17 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Mad that Man Utd are considered the second most "productive academy" but don't even feature in the top 7 most profitable academies! 🤯

    • @echolot
      @echolot Před 6 měsíci

      that's painful

    • @shadow_realm47
      @shadow_realm47 Před 6 měsíci +1

      because they hold onto prospects for too long and dont give them game time at the proper level, then sell them only once they're broken toys.

  • @madskaddie
    @madskaddie Před 6 měsíci +1

    what about Benfica? Félix, Bernardo silva, Ruben dias, Ederson... just to name a few players: all excelent players, some with high transfer fees for Benfica

  • @qriousitybug
    @qriousitybug Před 6 měsíci +54

    Those saying "La Masia" better, there is absolutely no doubt about that fact from a pure talent standpoint. The difference is in the financials.
    Because of how mammoth an organization Barcelona is, they are usually not a selling club, while the same can't be held true for small clubs like Chelsea, Ajax, and Benfica.

    • @EdgarHunk
      @EdgarHunk Před 6 měsíci +4

      The video is from the premiere league point of view.. I guess

    • @qriousitybug
      @qriousitybug Před 6 měsíci +5

      @@EdgarHunk Title says "in the world" though.

    • @EdgarHunk
      @EdgarHunk Před 6 měsíci +8

      ​@@qriousitybugjust to make it catchy and attractive to lure viewers.. because the description clearly makes comparison among EPL clubs

    • @mhtv5959
      @mhtv5959 Před 6 měsíci +4

      So if we're seeing academies through the lens of the revenue generated then Benfica is best.

    • @Steveck072
      @Steveck072 Před 6 měsíci +14

      @@qriousitybug”small clubs like Chelsea …”. Nice 😂😂😂

  • @mashoodhassan4036
    @mashoodhassan4036 Před 6 měsíci

    About time people put some respect on Cobham! what a academy!

  • @Viewer41
    @Viewer41 Před 6 měsíci +25

    Chelsea logic.
    Sell talented academy player.
    Replace with less talented big money buy from aboard.
    🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
    E.g.
    Sell Chalobah. Buy Bakayoko
    Sell Guehi. Buy Diasi
    Sell Abraham. Buy Jackson
    Sell Hudson Odi. Buy Mudryk.
    Sell Hall. Buy Cucurella.
    Sell Tomori. Buy Badiashille.
    Sell Mount. Buy Ugochukwou

    • @TDOTSE1
      @TDOTSE1 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Exactly makes no sense.

    • @bluechip3158
      @bluechip3158 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Hall is better than Cucurella, I'd even say better going forward than Chilwell.
      Hate it that they sold him

    • @rahadianardi9696
      @rahadianardi9696 Před 6 měsíci

      Different timeline, only cucurela and bakayoko was right

    • @Dilllll26
      @Dilllll26 Před 6 měsíci +2

      so tell me what chalobah, abraham, odoi, hall and mount have done since leaving?

    • @AintNoWaye
      @AintNoWaye Před 6 měsíci

      you named a bunch of trash players lmfao. The only L from them is Livramento for Gusto

  • @Plus27
    @Plus27 Před 6 měsíci

    About time someone said it. Though we are not able to make anything out of it

  • @ciamgranda5786
    @ciamgranda5786 Před 6 měsíci +1

    In the World?? Naah, Barcelona is still a big player you'll be surprised just how many players came from La Masia...You probably didn't know Onana, Grimaldo, Sergi Gomez now at Man City, Dani Olmo, Todibo just to name a few were all at La Masia at some point.
    Not to mention Gavi, Fermin Lopez, Ansu Fati, Balde, Lamine Yamal probably the brightest teenager right now and Araujo are all Top Players or highly rated players who came from La Masia and the Spanish ones will have an impact on how Spain fairs in the next 5 years like Spain's success has a direct link to La Masia they won their first trophy (Nations League) in years right after Barcelona started producing once again.

  • @00dude3
    @00dude3 Před 6 měsíci +9

    No mention of a transfer ban for literally breaking the rules around young players? Eg bribing parents/family of players

    • @timmills8521
      @timmills8521 Před 6 měsíci +7

      Yea, cos literally no other club in world football does this 🥱

    • @00dude3
      @00dude3 Před 6 měsíci

      is that why only chelsea got a transfer ban?@@timmills8521

    • @natsudama4604
      @natsudama4604 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@timmills8521then why did chelsea get a ban and not all the other clubs you are talking about? 😂

    • @AintNoWaye
      @AintNoWaye Před 6 měsíci

      @@natsudama4604Are you a moron? They clearly just havent found that out yet. Are city the only team in the prem to use financial loopholes? By your logic they are!

  • @itwasntme2270
    @itwasntme2270 Před 5 měsíci

    Wait wasn't sarri the one who gave cho and ampadu debut?

  • @Zhwahab
    @Zhwahab Před 6 měsíci +17

    Better than la masia?

  • @WS12658
    @WS12658 Před 6 měsíci +5

    As a Charlton fan, we're well aware of how Chelsea like to take and coming talents from smaller club's academies... :)

    • @whtwht
      @whtwht Před 6 měsíci +1

      Exactly.... Chelsea make pro footballers yes burlt no real first team pathway ..

  • @papakow1346
    @papakow1346 Před 6 měsíci

    Benfica have to have a shout or? They've produced some incredible young talent over the years

  • @relics1454
    @relics1454 Před 6 měsíci

    I doubt the academy works as smoothly nowadays as it did under Roman

  • @afrobuddy4801
    @afrobuddy4801 Před 6 měsíci +2

    La Masia would like a word

  • @onke
    @onke Před 6 měsíci +1

    Which world class player have they produced? Like Ballon Dor winners or Kopa Trophy or Golden Boys etc. They produced normal players players, not world class

  • @muhammedgamal5871
    @muhammedgamal5871 Před 6 měsíci

    Important topic

  • @albertpallas8817
    @albertpallas8817 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Says "best academy in the world" and then proceeds to only compare with EPL clubs

  • @53232adrian
    @53232adrian Před 6 měsíci

    Pochettino used to give chances to academy players in Tottenham. Kane, Modric, Walker and he turned them into stars to this day.

    • @JayTechZM
      @JayTechZM Před 4 měsíci

      Modric was bought from Dynamo Zagreb after Euro 08 hardly a spurs academy player

  • @kwanlinus6999
    @kwanlinus6999 Před 6 měsíci +5

    It ain't better than La Masia

  • @misonipeter4377
    @misonipeter4377 Před 6 měsíci

    It is one thing for academy to play in first team, it is another for them to he sold...

  • @AnojanSivam
    @AnojanSivam Před 6 měsíci +4

    La Masia would like to have a word with you

  • @kidpagronprimsank05
    @kidpagronprimsank05 Před 6 měsíci

    4:27 does Crewe Alexandra have good youth team?

  • @M4NA5
    @M4NA5 Před 6 měsíci +8

    Chelsea are the worst club when it comes to developing their players.
    De Bruyne developed at Wofsburg before peaking at Man City
    Salah developed at Roma before peaking at Liverpool
    Ake developed at Bournemouth before peaking at Man City
    Lukaku developed at Everton before peaking at Inter Milan
    Plus, many more.

    • @tsepopheko
      @tsepopheko Před 6 měsíci +4

      Mohamed Salah played for Arab Contractors in Egyptian Premier League before moving to Europe. He was not developed at Roma

  • @thisricardopalma
    @thisricardopalma Před 6 měsíci +2

    😂😂 no they don't it's Sporting Clube de Portugal. The only club in the world to produce 2 fifa ballon dor. And more...

  • @Suiiii1789
    @Suiiii1789 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Barca & Madrid: hold my boys

    • @InvaderZim742
      @InvaderZim742 Před 6 měsíci

      madrids academy is rubbish lol. Carvajal and.......

  • @TheSupermonty15
    @TheSupermonty15 Před 6 měsíci +4

    I’m a chelsea fan no we don’t Barca’s us better ours is pretty gd tho.

  • @reignofpie6945
    @reignofpie6945 Před 6 měsíci

    How many of the players in the first team are actually academy products? Maybe they're a profitable academy, but it sure doesn't lead to first team success. If the academy is as good as claimed, why did they go out and buy a bunch of young prospects instead of promoting them from the academy? How many goals, assists, or even just minutes does the academy get in the first team compared to other teams? Reece James plays maybe 1/3 of the games each year due to injury, so he's not exactly the greatest example.

  • @Alpha_da_great
    @Alpha_da_great Před 6 měsíci

    Come on you blues 💙 💪

  • @uzumakinaruto369
    @uzumakinaruto369 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Chelsea💙

  • @gormatthew
    @gormatthew Před 6 měsíci

    limited review IMO. What about the kids left by the wayside?

  • @abubakargiwa4887
    @abubakargiwa4887 Před 6 měsíci

    If we have such a great academy, why spend so much on buying players that also just have potential but from other countries

  • @davinator5167
    @davinator5167 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Dislike for the title, PSG and Barca definetely produce more world class players

  • @Unc-Ray
    @Unc-Ray Před 6 měsíci +18

    La Másia is unmatched, it's infact another football team of its own

    • @M_Sp_
      @M_Sp_ Před 6 měsíci +36

      Barcelona fanboys bringin themselves into the discussion, even though it's about Chelsea and nobody asked or is interested here in Barcelona...

    • @Cardi859
      @Cardi859 Před 6 měsíci

      So because the video is about Chelsea, he can't speak about anything else as if you pay for his internet? Lol, Chelsea fans, man. @@M_Sp_

    • @ryanergo754
      @ryanergo754 Před 6 měsíci +8

      ​@M_Sp_ When someone says anything is the best at something, you automatically bring everything else in the conversation. You can't say Messi is the best, without CR7 fans come out of the woodworks, and vice versa.

    • @W_CPT
      @W_CPT Před 6 měsíci +1

      Barcelona is broke so they have to aggressively use La Másia to source talent instead of spending the big bucks on proven talent. This creates the illusion that they are the best in the world when they in fact, they have no choice but to be the ‘best’.
      Needless to say, La Fábrica is best in Europe.⚪️

    • @dpad_
      @dpad_ Před 5 měsíci +1

      wake up buddy. its not 2005 anymore

  • @chantith4060
    @chantith4060 Před 6 měsíci +30

    *buys players from brighton anyways*

    • @thespaceageparty9577
      @thespaceageparty9577 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Yeah. But all of those players are foreign players. Not from London. So we couldn't get them until they got a bit older.

    • @RefnRes
      @RefnRes Před 6 měsíci

      Cucurella, Caicedo and Sanchez. I don't think just 3 players are gonna be blocking out too many players from Cobham. You can't rely only on the academy. No club that wants to compete for titles does that because it's completely unrealistic to expect a 100% hit rate on every kid being world class. The academy will produce some players like Levi, Conor, Reece, Trev etc but they will also have to buy players when the academy hasn't got say a world class striker or goalkeeper left in it.

    • @George-jc3mt
      @George-jc3mt Před 6 měsíci

      brighton also took two of our acadmey players what happend to theirs

  • @Looking4Better
    @Looking4Better Před 6 měsíci +3

    Please same video with LA MASIA from FC Barcelona, it would be amazing. Thanks!

  • @Legendest_
    @Legendest_ Před 6 měsíci +2

    Ever heard of la masia?

  • @duk210
    @duk210 Před 6 měsíci

    havent they done this video before?

  • @clintonoh3108
    @clintonoh3108 Před 6 měsíci

    The only people that have issues with these setups are the ones with no money, no drive and no vision.

  • @Hafris33
    @Hafris33 Před 6 měsíci

    So Cobham is London La Masia?

  • @jokeychan7526
    @jokeychan7526 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Laughs in La Masia.

  • @niialaadjei4668
    @niialaadjei4668 Před 6 měsíci

    Sacrifice brought Hudson Odoi

  • @5agrasen
    @5agrasen Před 6 měsíci +3

    Even Musiala is Chelsea academy reject and I would say he is top 5 mids right now

    • @AintNoWaye
      @AintNoWaye Před 6 měsíci +6

      hes not a reject clown lmao he left out of his own accord to live in germany

    • @5agrasen
      @5agrasen Před 6 měsíci

      @@AintNoWaye Yeah and it makes him a reject you imbecile as Chelsea dint give regular gametime nor thought he is capable. A club will keep a player if think he is good especially when you living in alpha city like London it becomes much easy

  • @sbassett5572
    @sbassett5572 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Why does everyone refer to Boehly as the Owner? He's not. He's the face of an investment group.

  • @sidewickx
    @sidewickx Před 6 měsíci

    Is it good if you end up selling your academy players

  • @ammavanfc9983
    @ammavanfc9983 Před 6 měsíci

    Wht abt of Man City's

  • @FCBSpecial
    @FCBSpecial Před 6 měsíci +1

    Tifo logic - I'll show you why Chelsea have the best youth academy in the world by comparing it to English teams only. Flawless logic.

  • @victorblancocrespo4379
    @victorblancocrespo4379 Před 6 měsíci

    It's laughable that such a large youth academy barely creates remarkably talented player's in comparison to other academy's.

  • @MRHashesha
    @MRHashesha Před 6 měsíci +1

    the clip provide great analysis but to say in the title Chelsea academy is the best in the world!! That stupid … Barcelona academy without doubt is the best ,produced the best player in history of the game , World Cup/EURO winners for the Spanish team and still produce wonder kids

  • @Viewer41
    @Viewer41 Před 6 měsíci +4

    3:48 "Little success"????????
    He got Top 4 WITHOUT;
    - spending a penny
    - Hazard, who was just sold
    - Kante, who was injured all season
    - Rudiger, who was injured most of the season.
    All the while having to put up with Kepa in goal! 🤡
    Lampard deserves more respect.

  • @haroldemmanuel_
    @haroldemmanuel_ Před 6 měsíci +1

    Didn’t Sarri give Odoi his debut?

    • @hb3393
      @hb3393 Před 6 měsíci

      No that was under Conte in the FA cup

  • @footmobgames
    @footmobgames Před 6 měsíci +5

    Blud forgot la masia

    • @scoobydoo7275
      @scoobydoo7275 Před 3 měsíci

      Video title says best in the world. To them the world is premier league

  • @frankunodostres473
    @frankunodostres473 Před 6 měsíci +1

    our best players of this decade (aka the last 3 years) were mount, reece james and thiago silva...
    yet our new ownership prefers to burn hundreds of millions for overrated and overpaid kids like enzo, mudryk or caicedo.
    it makes me sad

  • @robert2690
    @robert2690 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Selling young players is one thing but training them to the point where they become their peak is another.
    Will KDB and Mo Salah become the players they are today if they continue to play at Chelsea? Or did man city and Liverpool train them to become the players they are today?
    There’s a difference

    • @absolutespoon2074
      @absolutespoon2074 Před 6 měsíci +10

      I liked the part where Salah and debruyne were part of chelsea’s academy 🤦‍♂️

    • @NkemUtomi
      @NkemUtomi Před 6 měsíci +3

      Y'all need to remember Salah played for Basel before going to Chelsea and KDB was at Genk

    • @AintNoWaye
      @AintNoWaye Před 6 měsíci

      Many players peaked at chelsea are you dumb

    • @kohikappu
      @kohikappu Před 6 měsíci +1

      I'm speechless reading this. Maybe some people aren't really suited for football.

  • @bzhalfdead2738
    @bzhalfdead2738 Před 6 měsíci +1

    What about Barca

  • @fmiftah
    @fmiftah Před 6 měsíci +1

    They also built city & liverpool by giving them kdb and salah 😂

  • @ahmedbooth
    @ahmedbooth Před 6 měsíci

    They have a good youth system, yet they still spent over £1.3 billion buying players in just 18months.