Act like you kno shyt about football breh. If he was talented like Messi(when he was just 12) for example Barca or any of the big clubs would have taken him, but he was just pure shyt, no matter how bad you are you dont play for the fukkin 4th divison finnosh teams.this mental retardation
Maybe i was being harsh on their academy, but its not comparable to la masia or ajax academy for example. They got lucky woth a once in a lifetime generation and so they have a lot of goodwill but they are just not good enough to compare to the best in the world.
He still is talented. The problem is, he's all skills but his football IQ isn't all that and his size and athlete ability is in the lower tier. If he could improve his football IQ and really improve his confidence back to what it was then, he could be pretty good as far as NASL and MLS players go but it's extremely unlikely he will ever be a euro player.
He was overhyped to fukk, that simple. I think the hype helped ruin him as well, he was never going to be a superstar but maybe he could have been something without all the pressure and spotlight at a young age.
This happens all the time in football, someone is the next pele, cruyff, maradona or jinky but they turn out shyte. Is what it is.
Remember when Joe Cole was dubbed the "British Zidane"?
Or when Quaresma was considered the "next Cristiano Ronaldo"?
WHAT!? Even as someone that hates Man Utd fans, their academy is among one of the greatest academies in world Football, at the very least it's top 10. Danny Drinkwater is coming off a phenomenal season for Leicester City (a product of the Man Utd academy), Paul Pogba, Rashford is looking fantastic, Lingard is coming on very well, Mcnair is looking good, Danny Welbeck, Beckham, Scholes, Giggs, Butt, Neville brothers, the list goes on and on - they have pumped out talent for decades. 
Let's not have this discussion
Danny Drinkwater........jesus lets pretend you didn't say his name, the fact that Leicester is top right now is because the Premier League is an embarrassment no wonder they keep getting fukked in Europe. Barca, Real, Atletico, Bayern, Dortmund, Juve would literally destroy this club with ease but the shytty "Greatet League in teh World" cant.....says it all really. shyt player.
Nah breh English Acadamies are absolutely terrible at developing talent for the long term, the recurring theme of English football is some homegrown talent has an incredible season but because of either incompetence by the higher ups or succumbing to the pressure they always fall short.
