Predicting which young footballers will make it to the very top can be a thankless task, with players seemingly destined for Premier League stardom going from hero to zero in short order.
A player who looks a dead cert at 16 can be down in the lower leagues before his 26th birthday, while others might have to wait until their twenties for a top-flight debut but then go on to feature at World Cups or European Championships for their country.
You might have picked out a star to watch at the club you support, and they might even have picked up first-team minutes at a tender age. As we will soon learn, though, even that is no guarantee of how things might look a decade from now.
