Manchester City youngsters have been warned by the head of the club's academy about the "highly unrealistic" chances of many of them breaking into the first team squad.
Phil Foden is expected to succeed David Silva in Pep Guardiola's plans next season in what would be the biggest breakthrough for the academy in the Sheikh Mansour era.
Tommy Doyle and Taylor Harwood-Bellis are among the best of the other youngsters of the club that have made senior debuts, but crossing the short road from the Academy Stadium to the Etihad is harder than it has ever been given the standards being set in the first team.
Despite ambitions from the owners for the squad to be filled with homegrown talent, Guardiola has made it clear that that cannot be done under
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