At the moment we don't reallly have much input into what sort of players our youth systems produce except by asking the board to improve the facilities. It would be nice if we could use the youth system to mould players into the type we want and imbue them with our own footballing philosophy the way Wenger does at Arsenal or Cruyff did at Barcelona.
I have two related suggestions for how this could be done:
1. The formation your youth team plays should determine what sort of players come through. For example if your youth team play 4-2-3-1 they should get more attacking midfielders than if they play 4-4-2.
2. The style of football your youth team plays should determine how attributes are distributed in the young players who are generated. A possession-based style would produce players with better technical attributes whereas a direct style would produce players with better physical attributes. A fluid philosophy would produce all-rounders whereas a ridig philosophy would produce specialists and so on.
This wouldn't allow you to produce better players - just players who fit your system.
I have two related suggestions for how this could be done:
1. The formation your youth team plays should determine what sort of players come through. For example if your youth team play 4-2-3-1 they should get more attacking midfielders than if they play 4-4-2.
2. The style of football your youth team plays should determine how attributes are distributed in the young players who are generated. A possession-based style would produce players with better technical attributes whereas a direct style would produce players with better physical attributes. A fluid philosophy would produce all-rounders whereas a ridig philosophy would produce specialists and so on.
This wouldn't allow you to produce better players - just players who fit your system.