In recent years, Leeds United have seen a whole host of exciting, raw gems from the Thorp Arch academy structure explode into life in the senior set-up.
While he has gone on to have an up-and-down career since exiting the Whites, Kalvin Phillips' name has to be mentioned when looking back at academy starlets coming good at Elland Road, with the Leeds-born midfielder going on to collect 14 goals and 13 assists in the first-team picture at his boyhood side. Safe to say, Marcelo Bielsa turned him into an elite talent.
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Kalvin Phillips
Archie Gray is also another glaring example of the conveyor belt approach in West Yorkshire working wonders.
Daniel Farke and Co only had the adaptable teenager in the first team ranks for one season before he was poached by a Premier League outfit.
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Gray's insane rise at Leeds
Despite having such a long-standing reputation for giving up-and-coming youngsters first-team minutes when ready, no homegrown starlets were present on Farke's bench for the recent trip to Fulham.
Gray was also nowhere to be found in the Tottenham Hotspur lineup, either, against West Ham United later that Saturday, with a major concern now that the 19-year-old could be Phillips 2.0; another expensive failure in the Premier League when leaving the comforts of West Yorkshire behind.
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With hindsight now firmly on side, Gray might well have been better placed to stay put at Leeds for the foreseeable, instead of sealing a £30m move to North London.
Still, those at Leeds no doubt loved every minute of the teenage sensation's career in the first-team mix at Leeds, even if promotion failed to be secured, with the England U21 regular turning quickly into a starter week in, week out for Farke.
Indeed, Gray left having tallied up 52 appearances in the first-team ranks from just one season, with the 6-foot-2 wonderkid's ability to line up as a central midfielder or as a full-back, making him a dependable figure, even at such a young age.
Losing the versatility of Gray, therefore, would have hurt Leeds as much as both Crysencio Summerville and Georginio Rutter vacating the building did, with the teenager even being lauded as "elite" from his very early days in West Yorkshire by the iconic Bielsa.
Archie Gray market value evolution
Still, losing Gray for that aforementioned £30m won't hurt too much anymore as Leeds now find themselves in the same division as their ex-academy product.
Yet, they wouldn't say no to having a fresh version of the 19-year-old, with another academy sensation now aiming to make the grade required to break into the senior ranks very soon.
The next version of Archie Gray at Leeds
Amazingly, while their former number 22 is no longer around, there is still a lingering Gray family connection at Elland Road.
Indeed, Harry Gray - who is the brother of the £30m star - is now being tipped to reach some incredible heights in West Yorkshire, having already netted four goals in Premier League 2 action this season.
Staggeringly, this isn't the only narrative that "runs in the family" - as analyst Ben Mattinson has quipped - with Charlie Cresswell's sibling in Alfie Cresswell making similar waves in the U21 set-up, with a route up to the first-team not looking like the most daring next step for the 18-year-old already.
With two goals next to his name in Premier League 2 action, many looking in might well anticipate that Cresswell is a player who regularly lines up in the forward areas.
However, when assessing the various positions he can slot into, the argument that he could be the next Gray-style talent undoubtedly strengthens.
Cresswell at Leeds by position
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Looking at the table above, Cresswell has routinely switched between playing in the middle of the park and as a right-back for the U18s and U21s.
Coincidentally, those are the two main positions Gray used to fill under Farke's tutelage, with Gray even taking on a centre-back role at Spurs on occasion, like the 18-year-old's main preference.
Therefore, the hope will be that Cresswell can go on to be a similarly standout success story like the Spurs number 14, as the next generation at Leeds aim to make significant strides to be remembered like Phillips and others before them.