Osasuna, Real and Eibar aren't apart of the Athletic Academy.

Yeah they get a lot of their players from other Basque clubs

@@kristianlolo2677 And Eibar's academy itself isn't producing the talent but rather signing players from Danok Bat (Ander Capa) or Real Sociedad (Dani Garcia, Inigo Martinez). Or with more recent years, Athletic Bilbao products like Peru Nolaskoain and Ager Aketxe either being signed players or on loan. Edit: Which actually says the Athletic Bilbao player pool is probably just outside of this list around 15th to 20th with Real Sociedad alongside or not far behind, mostly due to the oddity of how cannibalistic Basque clubs are where you'll find some players who have played for two clubs (examples such as Alex Remiro or Beasain's Mikel Orbegozo, a journeyman who played for both Bilbao Athletic and Real Sociedad B).

@@marsy8148 It'd probably put Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao in close proximity as you'll also find a few Bilbao products on Real Sociedad or at other clubs in the top flight not to mention the Spanish lower leagues are littered with academy products from Lezama and Anoeta.

While Athletic have produced many great Spanish national team players over the years, currently the talent of their best graduates doesn't compare to the academies of this video.

same for fabregas. he was la masia and joined arsenal u18. thats not an academy graduate imo

@@HarryPeppy he stayed at La Masia for at least 3 years so it counts

Similar to Cesc Fabrigas I believe

Nah he also played with the u19s

@@zurimondesir2995 He never played for Ajax U19

With the oligarch money coming in they basically hoover up everyone in Croatia, probably the number 1 country on earth for player quality per capita given their tiny population.

yeah but not top 7 not even top 15

​@stipe I heard from my croatian friend that hajduk split has an amazing academy, maybe even better than dinamo academy

@@stipe1615 Dinamo Zagrebs academy is top 5 in the world and there are several sources for it

@@DabDabGoose Not oil money its tax money😂😁👍

Bayern's academy is the bundesliga.

I do respect Hertha Berlin's academy. But if many of the young players have remained at the club, it means they are unfortunately spending their developing years or their peak years at a team struggling with relegation battles, while young players from clubs like Leverkusen and Bayern are consistently playing European competitions and pushing for titles.

@Juan Carlos Avendaño Hertha‘s development as a club with such an incredible academy has been very recent so most of those prospects are still very young and will probably not stay at Hertha for that much longer if they don’t get their act together soon. Luca Netz already moved although his hopes of playing international football haven’t been fulfilled at Mönchengladbach because they’ve also been struggling. Lukas Ullrich who is an incredibly gifted left back and the captain of their U19 team has also been linked with a move to different German clubs My point was just that all those young players at Leverkusen and Bayern playing international football aren’t true products of their academies. The last one at Leverkusen was Havertz and for Bayern you have to go all the way back to Müller.

@@flixrus9473 last one was Havertz? Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that Wirtz is a 32 year old. Also, the fact that Berlin's academy doing great work is only recent supports the point that the other German academies that have being doing a good job for a longer time would deserve the honorable mention more than Hertha. Again, I do respect Hertha and I thought they were quite an exciting team to watch several seasons ago when they were pushing for European competition places, and I do hope they can improve and avoid relegation, and their youngsters to help the team and earn more recognition, but saying that their academy is the best in Germany is just a bit much.

@Juan Carlos Avendaño Leverkusen bought Wirtz from Köln when he was 17 years old and he literally only played 4 games for their academy. The video is about the best youth academies in this moment in time and right now I’d say Hertha has the best. Historically they obviously don’t stand a chance against other German clubs like Stuttgart or Schalke

Agree

??? Is South America one club? Because players from South America that come thru to Europe dont develop in only one club there.

Historically speaking River Plate and Santos absolutely deserve to be in this list

Which part?

South America FC ??

Nah, the Southampton academy has dried up big time. Their only great academy graduate in recent years is JWP. Other than that it's been pretty barren.

British people lol

Southampton is more about young players they signed and developed for profit, not the players that come through

They only stood out as they had control of the entire south coast, Portsmouth were in financial trouble and both Bournemouth and Brighton are league 1 clubs. JWP is from Portsmouth and grew up as a fan of them

It's their scouting that's good not the academy

Don't forget Gazelec Ajaccio. They just got liquidated from the French football several days ago only 7 years after played in the Ligue 1 for the first time in 63 years history of the club.

I miss the days when Schalke 04 used to play in the Champions League/Europa League.

Unfortunately they are habing some sort of dip in potential right now, otherwise surely up there

Ozil

@@roselineukpanah1222 It’s too bad Ozil retired a few weeks ago, he definitely could’ve played another 2 years if he went to MLS.

@@matthewhernandez8342 He just decided to go back to his homeland

I think Barca academy is fairly rated due to the fact of our history with players like Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, Pique, Fabrigas, Captain Puyol and many others. The thing is we're going through harsh times. But still we have incredible players like Ansu Fati, Pedri, Gavi.

@@Blue-ib7mou know I always thought pedri came from las palmas academy…but I guess I was wrong

Still can’t believe they let him go so easily. Shows how stupid Chelsea really is

Pedri and gavi and before that Andres Iniesta messi and xavi were all la masia graduates how he put chelsea over barcelona is beyond me Chelsea fans tell me which players are better then the aforementioned players I said That's right no one only hazard is close and he's from llie academy

​@@LarryStylinson-tg2cvdont cry. He clearly says this is about current academies.

How he had the audacity to do it in front of all those people well he was high af

@@divhead3521 in an Arab country no less. I love Argentina because of that, they don't give a F***

It was amazing when he did it, had a good laugh about it 😂

Plz don't tell them till they are 16

He will omit Croatia, he's an Englishman so he's still probably salty about 2018. He didn't even mention Dinamo's academy here

Those are fantastic names! Thank you for providing them!

Porto's academy was never that great. Sporting and Benfica academies clearly top them both historically and in the present day.

The problem with portuguese football is also how Jorge Mendes influence the transfers of players in the portuguese league. Promising players like Samuel Lino and Vitinha tend to leave to coincidentally other clubs that have ties with Mendes (PSG, Valencia, Wolves, Monaco, Atletico Madrid) even tho the club or fans of those portuguese clubs still wanted those players to stay.

I don't get people who comment before watching the vid

Porto's academy is nowhere near as good as that of Benfica or Sporting.

@@areebsiddiqui758 As of now Benfica and Porto are clearly ahead from Sporting as they haven't produced many good players from their academy in the last couple years (I'd say Matheus Nunes is an exception) as even some players such as Daniel Bragança, Jovane Cabral and even Gonçalo Inácio I feel like they shouldn't have developed more as they been playing in the first team for a while. Right now I would even put Braga ahead

These weren't academy players: they bought Walcott from Southampton, Lokonga , Martinelli and Saliba were also bought. They just scouted and bought good young talent to add to the academy players like Saka.

They were also runners up in the previous tournament, but yes they had a bad go at it this season, but still plenty of great talent there.

Who many finals for Benfica?

There's still a million full length documentaries about it. Why rehash shit that was overdone at the time?

@@kieronparr3403 a updated one about the new stadium would be good and one from Alfie would be good His recent Indonesia documentary was good

I can’t find one. 😮

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How is it the best ever if they have never produced one player who won a Balon D Or. Sporting CO developed two world players of the year. 4 of the 5 best players in Portuguese history are from Sporting academy. In fact if you look at the top 20 Portuguese players ever a overwhelming majority is from Sporting. Benfica is nowhere near that level. However they have improved their academy a lot in recent years.

@@Sporting-tz4ei sounds like u didnt watch the video , he was totally clear about sporting academy , he also said most of what u just said , u still ended up in 7th for a reason

@@OnyHipHopMusic You said "strongest academy ever" that is 100% wrong. Benfica academy have improved a lot but they are nowhere near Sporting, Ajax etc. Benfica might not ever produce a Balon D or player.

​@@Sporting-tz4ei os lagartos tinham que vir aziar... quantas finais tem o Benfica na youth league? Quem ganhou o ano passado? Quantos jogadores da formação do Benfica ganharam a champios este ano? Quem vende melhor? O Sporting tem uma excelente academia, mas ultimamente tem lançado jogadores banais, excepto o Leão. Ja foi a melhor, ,mas neste momento não é.

They seem to be on the verge of folding? Interesting because I check the standings and they are doing fine albeit in the National League.

alot of the young players they bring into the first team where bought from other teams not academy players like Haaland, Sancho, Bellingham.

@@DabDabGoose true

Name the Dortmund academy products

@@fishyfish6510 rüdiger, götze, reus, pulisic

but it does matter , the title of the video is the best academies , academies that produces players on the level that Benfica does consistently will always mean its a better academy then the one that gets to keep all the players they get from theyr academy in theyr professional team. If Benfica didnt have the need to sell because of the financial constrictions of portuguese football , it would win the champions league more consistently then Real Madrid with the level of players that come out of theyr academy , if they could keep them ofc

Could be that they're being prudent with their spending? Transfers and a UCL berth are hardly something that's guaranteed (well, maybe less so for the UCL berth given Benfica's typical standing), whereas wage bills typically stay the same one year and the next.

@@awijaya2116 Ajax is being prudent, Benfica is like on another scale to the point it's probably to do with the owner taking chunks of money for themselves because it doesn't add up.

@@DabDabGoose I believe it has more to do with the more restrictive Portuguese tax system rather than the club itself not wanting to pay higher salaries. I think he mentions something about it in this video if I am not wrong.

Portugal is just in general lower cost than the Netherlands

@@DabDabGoose Benfica doesnt have an owner. The club is owned by the fans. However the wage bill is much lower because the president doesn't offer big wages in order to not create precendents. Either the players renew their contract or they are sold. Grimaldo's case is special because he doesn't want to renew his contract, although he probably will but if he doesn't then he'll leave on a free. That's very unsual.

Dani Olmo is from La Masia

Congratulations Now go and fill his mind with greatness of Arsenal so that he dreams and ends up joining them one day. Jk

@@blast473 i mean i hope he makes it to the top level and if he does his/(and mine aswell)favorite team is Barca because our family is from there but him playing for Arsenal would be very sick if he can go on to be a professional

Well he missed by a little on the map , should have gona bit more to the center of Lisbon to the Red side 😂 still congrats on getting the spot , its still one of the 3 greats of Portugal 😁

The only team that had a class 😂

The only player of note that United have produced in the last 30 years is Rashford so they definitely don't deserve to be on this list

That's true but this channel has always been bitter towards City so what do you expect?

Since he was mentioned in this video, Gavin Bazunu is a perfect example of this. He started his senior career at Shamrock Rovers in Ireland and I think was only at city a couple of months before he went out on loan.

Why are you using Benfica as an example? From all the players mentioned only Ederson is Brazilian and I dont even remember a single argentinian playing for our academy ever. All the other players are Portuguese (yes we have a lot of black people who are born and raised in Portugal).

messi is a good example, only 3 argies have ever trained in la massia he was scouted because he was a massive talent in a desperate situation. A lot of big euro teams can buy youth players one way or the other.

Yeah it is fair , from 15 to 18 wich is the usual age to go pro if ur really good , a lot can happen. Benfica has a TV Series about its academy , and you can see for yourself that only a small percentage of kids can actually get featured on the main squad , so only the cream of the crop will achieve it. Ederson came young to Benfica around that age , but he in the series himself says that he had to work his ass off to be able to make a mark in the youth teams to get called up. What i mean is most of the players development hapens around that time , and if they are not in the correct enviornment to evolve the correct way, they will not achieve world class level. And think about this , a team like Santos wouldnt just let a Neymar just go fly to lisbon to go try it out at Benfica, if they spot a pure genius it does not matter what team it is , if it has some power they will hold him for how long they can, so yeah its totally fair to be considered Benfica developed talent , since Benfica was the one who believed and helped the kid reach greater heights

La fabrica is one of the best in the world but La masia is the best

They produce good footballers that are la liga level and have good careers but how many go on to represent Real Madrid? Very very few - although you could argue Real is the hardest ten in the world to get into

@@karlclifford1176 real madrid academy graduate suffer from galacticos

He's ranking them in the present. So past players who've already retired don't count towards the criteria. Otherwise Barcelona would obviously have been first with Ajax second.

Yeah problem is that we are massively under invested in youth in recent years (thanks Glazers) and CIty's facilities and coaching is a mile ahead of ours right now. Historically, we are a mile ahead but even former United stars are sending their sons to City's academy, including: Peter Schmeichel, Viv Anderson, Darren Fletcher, Wayne Rooney and Andy Cole

​@@mgramsdalewayne Rooney kid is not at man city

I agree but do to that limitation their talent pull is minimal and they rarely produce a big big player like Larporte Fx.

Lol. Chelsea fans claim everything

@@abdullah087 what are you talking about? He spent most of his academy career at Chelsea before moving to Bayern

Keep dreaming bocah