That exactly sums it up for me.
Van Ginkel may well turn out to be a brilliant signing and player for CFC - dito KDB. But it's a real kick in the bollox for the likes of Chalobah & McEachran who no doubt feel they have done enough to be given an equal chance but looks like they will go out on loan to Championship sides yet again and by next season there will probably be even more arrivals to compete with.
This was a point I was going to make as well, I'm all for the foreign signings that are fantastic players, but some of the players brought from overseas are average, these are the players that are holding back the English talent.
I'm not digging these players out, as I do think they are good players but do, Ivanovic, Azpulecueta, Ramieres, Van Ginkel, Kevin De Bruyne, Lukaku really bring anything that couldn't have been found in a young English player? These are all good players, but they're not in the top echeloen in the case of the last 3 they may become great players but at the moment they jury still has to decide.
Now multiply that across the the league and think how many foreign players their are that really are average, I mean Sunderland and Newcastle pretty much have whole teams of very average foreign 'talent'.
As lots have said this is down to the price of young English talent, but for me this is a bit of a cop out, if clubs could develop their own talent then they wouldn't need to pay out a big transfer fee.
For me the Acadamy system doesn't work how can a club take a player from another club for nothing, based purely on status? That is just so wrong.
When I was growing up the real talented players weren't just restricted to playing with their pro club, they played for their school, county, Sunday team and the pro club that they were affiliated to, this brought us more talent than we have now. I believe the reason for this is that the youngster was exposed to more than 1 way of playing and had different coaches to spot that players skill set. Now the clubs are harvesting up all of these younger players, they then can't play for any other team, if the club then decides that a player is not good enough he is kicked back out into the wilderness.
Rickie Lambert is the exception that proves this rule, I believe in the older system of school, county and Sunday football Lambert would have had a career in the top flight from a young age, however he was deemed not good enough in a Liverpool acadamy and ended up playing non-league before getting his break towards the end of his career. If he had been playing school and county football he would have been seen by other scouts and could have been given another chance.
Anyway I've ranted on for far too long, the point I'm making is that the superstar signings are great, the others not so much.
