I think produce is the wrong word. These players aren't produced. If they were, we'd all have them all the time. They are born that way and along their football journey from boy to man they are encouraged and nurtured to become the talents we see at senior level.

When I was playing football at a pretty decent standard as a 15/16/17 year old, really talented players were being overlooked in favour of the biggest fittest fuckers who could muscle a ball into a net on a monotonous basis. Which was great, until the playing field started to level out physically and they were out of their depth technically. I could see it happening before my own young dopey eyes. We're not talking Sunday league fuck abouts here with managers who just happen to be free on a Sunday morning or have access to a van, proper coaches at championship clubs who really ought to have known fucking better even back then.

I think we've learned many a lesson over the last 20/25 years and we have started to see the fruit of those lessons in the players we have being far more technically accomplished than their predecessors and able to retain possession of a football much better. The real x factor players though, you cant teach that, you cant create a training drill to build a Hazzard De Bruyne partnership, you cant give them what they've got. You can help it along it's way, but it has to be there from the beginning.

With a bit of luck coaches are a bit more switched on these days and can spot the real players with the brains and flair to unlock defences and give them a go rather than binning them off in favour of a big lump who can run.