True but Yedlin has held now played over 100 matches for Newcastle in PL.
Its all but impossible to know how good a young player can be as the margins between a championship player, a mid table Pl player and an elite PL player are not easy to see in youngsters.
Whilst I was always certain that Kane would be a PL player (versus one poster on SC who vowed he'd only be a decent Championship player) I never saw him becoming the elite player he now is, I was just hoping he'd be a good level PL player able to be at least a rotation player for us.
Whilst the numbers coming through the academy mean its unlikely that even one a year is good enough to stay at Spurs throughout their career, even the ones that don't stay in Spurs first team go on to have good careers elsewhere - as did Townsend, Mason, Bentaleb, Carroll, Veljkovic, and a number of others who were brought into first team contention pre-Poch but were sold after he joined netting circa £100m which was used to buy more established players - so they have certainly contributed to Spurs success both as acting as squad players for us and then with a very useful boost to transfer funds (even if those funds were not very well used),
And I suspect Binks could at least have made the squad player grade, but beyond that its impossible to know atm, But even a career as a squad player and a useful transfer fee helps rather than just leaving due to lack of a first team pathway.