You are perfectly correct. I recall reading a manager talking in Shoot! magazine in the 80's, and he said the toughest part was having to tell a young player that he just isn't the required standard, and having the player burst into tears in his office; but the manager said that he would always try to help the player maybe into a lower league team, and explain the reasons for not giving the player a contract to his parents, and even try to help him into another field of employment. Football is even more ruthless now than it was before, these kids are being given expectations above their ability, to use the analogy of the SAS, they'll have 10 apply and only 1 gets through...but that doesn't mean the Army abandons the other 9, the others may need more maturity or physicality, they can always apply again, and the army appreciates you trying and failing rather than just giving up, and encourage you to keep pursuing the dream. Your realism mccaughey85 is far more important to the development of young players, instead of telling them that they are the new Messi, and thinking that just because they have signed for a Spanish club, that they are going to set the world on fire.