After years of hard work behind the scenes and slow but steady progress, the last few seasons have seen Manchester City's academy finally begin to bear fruit.
Much was made of the lack of academy graduates in City's starting XI in the years that followed the opening of City's £200m academy in 2014. All that money spent, but for what, was the question critics posed.
Three years later Phil Foden made his senior debut for Pep Guardiola's side, but rather than disappear into the ether like so many before him, he embarked on a meteoric rise to become one of the best attackers in the Premier League.
