Yep, I was going to say the same. I think we've generated over +£100m in players that have come through the academy in the last 5yrs or so. We are producing professional footballers, that's what the academy is there to do, I think this is overlooked, we don't hoard players and send scores and scores out on loan. Our commitment to all those in the academy is to turn them into pro-footballers, something that is exceptionally hard to do. Each time this has been achieved it should be praised and seen as an achievement.
The struggle is getting players into the first team at Tottenham Hotspur, which gets harder and harder the better (challenging at the top of the table and CL, rather than say 5th, 6th and EL) the Club gets. The goal posts have moved by a very long way in such a short space of time (5yrs??). It wasn't so long ago that Carroll and Caulker were seen as the "next big thing". It's fair to say that both were far from that, for whatever the reasons, with neither excelling since leaving Spurs, add Pritchard to those two whilst you are at it (another highly, highly rated player). I'd be surprised that there is a single person around today that once held the view that they were the "next big thing" now thinks this is the case.
What am I alluding to? Maybe, just maybe that those at Tottenham know what they are doing. That deep down we know that we will be adding Onomah and CCV to the same list as Pritchard, Caulker & Carroll (seeing as they are out on loan and not with the Club this is an increasing possibility). FWIW I've been a huge fan of both of these players but having seen CCV play (only a handful of games since his loan(s) admittedly, I can't say I hold the same view. He's no longer that dominant leader that he was at the heart of our academy back 4, he simply looks average at best. He's not in the same class as Foyth for example.