I and no saying sell them, but no you don't cut your teeth proving yourself in real Barca matches. You dominate in lower leagues/internationally and they kick ass in practice before you get any trust, and to get full trust you show well more good than bad when you get your 1st team opps.
Of course we can develop players, and we can be hopeful one or more of our under 22s develop into 1st team talents, but it is just hope at this point and lots of hoops for these players to earn trust. If we get a couple of players Barca level from the academy at any one time that is pretty good, and a few more not good enough for Barca but good enough for transfer fees. It is just that hard and rare for ANY prospect to be good enough for Barca--even the most promising ones who look great until they face the best of the best.
I get you, and agree that it's not for everyone, I just hope that they at least give them a chance.
Grimaldo was not given any, and by the looks of it Aleña and Puig might be good enough. Obviously you can't know for sure, but just seeing them play as they're given chances, they take those chances.
To your point, and in contrast, players like Miranda, Collado, Chumi, haven't really taken their chances.
So maybe just give at least Aleña, Puig, Iñaki Peña, and maybe Cucurella and Oriol (in a year or 2) chances (while being coached well - important point, down just throw them to the wolves and see who comes out, it doesn't work), and some of them might surprise us.
I guess I'm just a bit tired of us spending exuberant amount of money buying the Digne's of this world when we have Grimaldo's, knowing that there is a chance they'll flop, but there's also the chance that, with good coaching (that's where ValverdeOut comes in) you might just have another Busquets, Puyol, or Pedro and if you're lucky Iniesta or Xavi (which by the way didn't come without their fair share of criticism, but by constant and good coaching).
