When you go through the title winners of the last 10 years, how many had academy products as prominent players in their line up? We've got TAA but that's it, and as good as he is Alisson & Van Dijk were both far more important. Salah & Mane too. City's prominent players have been Aguero, Silva, Kompany, Yaya Toure and Fernandinho.
That is because the teams winning it are not really known to promote youth as much.
City want to promote youth but their win it now attitude does not help.
Liverpool, I am afraid do not have the quality, or they would have got a chance.
We are not seeing a group of very young talented players coming through the academies, not just Manutd but across the country.
It is up to the managers to bleed the youngsters in. This is a key reason Arteta, Lampard and Ole have the job, to encourage youth to play more.
Ofcourse they will be inconsistent, but what they will get is patience from fans.