Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes parents and agents are to blame for stunting the development of young talent.
Mourinho, having led Chelsea to the Premier League title this season, is set to start teenagers Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Isaiah Brown in Monday night's game at West Brom as part of their integration into the first-team setup.
Blues captain John Terry, 34, was the club's last homegrown first-team regular, but with their under-21 side FA Youth Cup winners and European champions, there is hope a breakthrough of talent at senior level is imminent.
Mourinho said of the problems with nurturing talent: "Without naming names, I could write a book. In modern football, it is because of the agents and the parents -- when the players are almost there, and in the process of being almost there, they think they are already there.
"They make the players think they have arrived when they haven't. They think about money before the career starts, and everything gets very, very confused.
"That doesn't help the players. They need stability. It's not the case, but imagine Ruben's family or agent pushing the kid to go -- 'The kid has to go on loan.' Imagine that picture. That's not what he needs. In this moment, he needs stability.
"He played against Liverpool. He's going to play against West Bromwich. Next season, he starts with us and is stable because he's part of the squad. He's not trying to win a position in it. He's part of it. He's not going on loan and he knows that.
"They need that kind of stability, unless they play in very small clubs when, at 17 or 18, they go direct in the first-team. But to be in a big team and reach the level to be playing regularly for the first-team, you need time and stability. We try to give that to our boys."