A few weeks ago I heard on the radio mention to a young Finnish striker scoring in the league cup with a name that I recognised.
Having just checked, it was confirmed as our ex academy team striker Marcus Forss, who scored his first professional goal for Brentford in their league cup game vs Southend a few weeks ago. He also started in their win in the last round vs Cheltenham as well.
In the top 3 divisions, we have 9 former Albion academy forwards getting game time - Forss, Chris Wood, Saido Berahino, Tyler Roberts, Keemar Roofe, Izzy Brown, Jerome Sinclair, Romaine Sawyers and Alex Jones, plus Adil Nabi in Scotland. Add to those Edwards and Leko, plus , Tulloch, Soule, Rodgers and Barry in the youth set up and you get the impression we have no problem developing players in that area of the pitch.