Alan Hansen's comment originally was directed at the Manchester United side of Beckham, Scholes, Giggs, Butt, the Neville brothers and Robbie Savage, which I think it is fair to say proved more the exception rather than the rule. Since then, I tend to look at clubs like Arsenal and the amount of time they've spent trying to bring players through their youth system rather than splashing cash elsewhere. A bare trophy cabinet suggests it hasn't worked for them quite as well as they wanted it to. In the past couple of seasons Wenger has recognised that and changed his approach slightly to bring in the likes of Ozil. Generally, Alan Hansen does still have a point.
