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]

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

[@thespaceageparty9577]

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]

​@@thespaceageparty9577 west london represent

[@triggerfinger7831]

They still have.

[@MrHubertGreen]

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

[@InvaderZim742]

@@triggerfinger7831 except they don't

[@cuppav2806]

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]

Didn't he not promote them tho?

[@HamsaT12]

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]

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

[@cuppav2806]

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

[@tspcontent4630]

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

[@jimmyhurt]

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]

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

[@backupdancer3720]

@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]

@@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]

@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]

@@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.

[@ochoeditz7658]

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]

thats actually insane man

[@FLYINGROMANS]

did salah, KDB and Lukaku go to cobham too?

[@ThabangLebogoTL]

@@FLYINGROMANSno

[@henrydauseb2844]

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

[@Waroyopfami]

Mbappé

[@DeVoidAS]

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]

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]

@@kohikappuhe didn’t say anything about Tuchel lol

[@utsavmehta33]

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]

and now thats no longer the case

[@hb3393]

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

[@A-Port-In-Any-Storm]

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]

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

[@dashawnballard52]

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

[@franalytics5995]

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

[@robert2690]

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

[@franalytics5995]

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

[@deadlyshizzno]

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

[@jimibaboza]

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]

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]

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]

​@@hugolouessard3914you just destroyed this punk

[@joraroar]

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]

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.

[@hilmannyusof88]

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]

.... 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_]

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]

No he didn't.

[@Oliver_T_03]

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]

Tbf Sarri was busy buying cigarettes

[@Delboy0]

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

[@AintNoWaye]

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]

​​@@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]

@@AintNoWaye Declan Rice

[@AintNoWaye]

@@munaali840 didnt sell him

[@munaali840]

@@AintNoWaye sold to west ham

[@CaptainQuoll]

Ajax and La Masia: 👁️👄👁️

[@cesarvelizp]

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

[@jabari7158]

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]

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]

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

[@HamsaT12]

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]

@@HamsaT12 are you tripping lmao

[@HamsaT12]

@@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]

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]

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]

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

[@madeiradriftin4429]

First comment that makes sense!

[@amarakanneh6628]

Better academy than Barcelona? I don’t think so

[@tobehonestidontknow9368]

Better? Maybe not Better at making money? Absolutely

[@LeafyPeach]

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

[@survivor.99]

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

[@hnaku8748]

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]

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

[@PrinceAsh327]

What about Barcelona's La Masia?

[@CaptainQuoll]

Reported for misinformation

[@GOATBryan10]

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

[@boney__70]

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

[@GOATBryan10]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@MonkeyOnAcids]

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

[@samhuggins2656]

Nope

[@reverseratiomaster2463]

​@@samhuggins2656fym nope

[@poptraxx418]

Barcelona no

[@MonkeyOnAcids]

@@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]

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

[@Rezcuz]

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

[@sreejithramakrishnan5024]

Please do a video on Ajax FC current form

[@Brascofarian]

"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

[@albertpallas8817]

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

[@mashoodhassan5556]

Absolutely spot on this!

[@ankurm4100]

Thanks for your coverage.. ktbbff!

[@dontmindme6995]

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]

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]

@@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

[@MessiCFC]

As a chelsea fan, it is La Masia

[@kevinobrien5964]

Shear numbers ! More in , more out !

[@zagreus101]

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

[@BarrysGalaxy]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@davidchandra8722]

​@@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

[@Hami_mase]

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

[@BigDeyum]

La masia still better

[@survivor.99]

Then not now

[@areebsiddiqui758]

Chelsea produce way more top players in terms of sheer quantity these days. La Masia will put out the odd wonderkid every now and then.

[@-LetsHaveItRight-]

90's is over

[@Qualario]

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

[@chad9971]

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

[@kohikappu]

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

[@Zhwahab]

Better than la masia?

[@CaptainQuoll]

No

[@skp8748]

Easily

[@afrobuddy4801]

La Masia would like a word

[@YoElementalGPU]

La Masia clears them, especially recently

[@-LetsHaveItRight-]

No lol

[@mashoodhassan4036]

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

[@wheatOfTheUK]

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

[@itwasntme2270]

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

[@flo3029]

La masia clear

[@relics1454]

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

[@deanpriveacc2754]

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

[@wildeskompositum9556]

Arsenal disagrees

[@areebsiddiqui758]

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]

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

[@areebsiddiqui758]

@@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]

@@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

[@fortuneasuoma7073]

Do we eve train goal keepers in the academy?

[@Plus27]

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

[@Zidanullneun]

La Masia exists

[@-LetsHaveItRight-]

It did in the 90s

[@Viewer41]

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]

Exactly makes no sense.

[@bluechip3158]

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

[@rahadianardi9696]

Different timeline, only cucurela and bakayoko was right

[@Dilllll26]

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

[@AintNoWaye]

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

[@chantith4060]

*buys players from brighton anyways*

[@thespaceageparty9577]

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]

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]

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

[@muhammedgamal5871]

Important topic

[@madskaddie]

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

[@AnojanSivam]

La Masia would like to have a word with you

[@-LetsHaveItRight-]

90s is over kid

[@onke]

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

[@papakow1346]

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

[@harisahmad7871]

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

[@TheCreativeLlama17]

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

[@echolot]

that's painful

[@shadow_realm47]

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.

[@00dude3]

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

[@timmills8521]

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

[@00dude3]

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

[@natsudama4604]

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

[@AintNoWaye]

@@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!

[@davinator5167]

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

[@misonipeter4377]

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

[@WS12658]

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

[@whtwht]

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

[@Alpha_da_great]

Come on you blues 💙 💪

[@TheSupermonty15]

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

[@zerokrm8980]

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]

Better youth coach than manager

[@kohikappu]

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.

[@ciamgranda5786]

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.

[@Suiiii1789]

Barca & Madrid: hold my boys

[@InvaderZim742]

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

[@kwanlinus6999]

It ain't better than La Masia

[@kidpagronprimsank05]

4:27 does Crewe Alexandra have good youth team?

[@thisricardopalma]

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

[@uzumakinaruto369]

Chelsea💙

[@sbassett5572]

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

[@53232adrian]

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

[@JayTechZM]

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

[@Hafris33]

So Cobham is London La Masia?

[@reignofpie6945]

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.

[@gormatthew]

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

[@Unc-Ray]

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

[@M_Sp_]

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

[@Cardi859]

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]

​@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]

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_]

wake up buddy. its not 2005 anymore

[@Looking4Better]

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

[@jokeychan7526]

Laughs in La Masia.

[@footmobgames]

Blud forgot la masia

[@scoobydoo7275]

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

[@clintonoh3108]

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

[@abubakargiwa4887]

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

[@Legendest_]

Ever heard of la masia?

[@haroldemmanuel_]

Didn’t Sarri give Odoi his debut?

[@hb3393]

No that was under Conte in the FA cup

[@MRHashesha]

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

[@niialaadjei4668]

Sacrifice brought Hudson Odoi

[@duk210]

havent they done this video before?

[@M4NA5]

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]

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

[@qriousitybug]

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.

[@qriousitybug]

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

[@mhtv5959]

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

[@Steveck072]

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

[@flo3029]

agreed

[@BlackPanther69172]

Imagine Barcelona fans calling other small while their club is broke af 🤡 Btw Chelsea spent more this season than Barca in 5 years.. Have some shame brokelona fan

[@5agrasen]

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

[@AintNoWaye]

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

[@5agrasen]

@@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

[@bzhalfdead2738]

What about Barca

[@sidewickx]

Is it good if you end up selling your academy players

[@hfvz_]

but failed to recognize Mbappe's talents apparently

[@victorblancocrespo4379]

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

[@juekftravel4930]

But how come they rejected Mbappe and Musiala?

[@obiigwe8349]

They did not reject Musiala. They developed and wanted to keep him, but he chose to sign a pro contract with Bayern instead, because he wanted to move back to Germany. Re Mbappe, players develop at different rates. Good scouts miss future talents all the time.

[@fmiftah]

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

[@FCBSpecial]

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.

[@davekika7394]

BILLION SPENT

[@user-mm3vb2cf6g]

💙

[@dipenchavda6988]

Nothing is remotely close to la masia of barcelona, they have produced world class players throughout the years