Keane takes a swipe at Arsenal's youth policy

Sunderland, 10:31, October 9, 2008

Sunderland manager Roy Keane has criticised Arsenal's youth policy, saying the club don't deserve credit for their young stars.

The former Manchester United captain believes that the majority of the credit for the Gunners current crop of youngsters should go to the clubs that first discovered the players rather than to the north London club.
"The word on the street is they (Arsenal) have a group of kids coming through that will be absolutely outstanding.
"But you go on about the kids coming through but a lot of them have been bought from other clubs, not through the academy at Arsenal. It's the same with Chelsea."
Keane went on to say that the Black Cats were having trouble luring young players to the Stadium of Light, claiming the club are restricted with who they can bring in because of the area they have to work in.
"We have tough battles up here in terms of signing young players and are restricted in terms of our location," Keane told The Sun.
"You can only bring in kids from a certain radius and a lot of our radius is in the water. Any good fish out there?"

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