Reminds me of Deulofeu. What's in the La Masia water. I thought Barca taught their kids to be team players.
Apart from Messi, who is a different and one-and-only story, Barca didn't manage to create any attacker for our level in the last 20-30 years.
The only single playable attacker/winger from La Masia in the last 20-25 years in Pedro.
On the other hand, La Masia was a golden egg in producing midfielders: Xavi, Iniesta, Busi, Thiago, Fabregas, Roberto, Rafinha, Motta, Guardiola.
My wild guess would be that La Masia's teaching methods work well on midfielders, where you need to play according to some schemes, something like:
-- move, move, move, get yourself into a chance to receive a pass
-- look at your teammates, play a good pass
-- move, move, move, work, work, work, think, think, think
-- receive a pass, pass the ball, repeat 1000s of times
To some extent, maybe a player can "learn" these schemes when he plays for 10-15 years in youth Barca's teams.
So, imo, maybe being a perfect Barca's midfielder is more about "learning" and fitting to a system and learning all it's schemes and movement from an early age.
You are taught to be a robot who will repeat the same action and movement 100s of times per match.
If you have an amazing skill, vision and IQ on top of that, you will be the next Xavi or Busi.
With attackers it seems to be different.
These "robotic" type of education: run, run, receive, pass, repeat=doesn't seem to be working.
Imo, it seems that Barca's midfielders rely more on understanding our system and our movement, and those parts can be learned over 10 years in La Masia.
With attackers, they need more natural world class talent, like Messi, Neymar, Suarez, Etoo, Ronaldinho.
To some extent, you can teach not so skilful player (let's say Roberto. Not too skillful, compared to Ronaldinho, for example) to be an awesome Barca's midfielder, because he understands perfectly our movement, our schemes, our mechanisms.
On the other hand, you can't teach Roberto or a similar player to turn into a world class attacker (Ronaldinho, Etoo, Rivaldo, Messi etc).
So, imo, in shorter, being a Barca's attacker is more about being a rough talent, who will be able to adapt to our style (learn our schemes), like Etoo, Neymar, Suarez.
Example (these are not real numbers), like 80% talent, 20% ability to learn and to adapt to our style.
While with Barca's youth CMs, it is more about learning, understanding and repeating our schemes and movements, with a slight touch of natural talent.
So, let's say 80% of learning and 20% of natural talent.
Imo, this could explain to some extent why we are producing so many suitable midfielders and almost zero world class attackers.
