This whole identity thing from Phelan really has got my goat. LvG gave players plenty of opportunities to impress and perform and the ones who haven't have left (apart from Anderson as he's an immovable object) It shouldn't matter if they came through the academy or not, if the manager doesn't like them they shouldn't be at the club. We've only made major signings in the last few days/weeks of the window, it's not like LVG came in and instantly made these signings and ignored the players that were here.
Now this 66 year record is 'under threat', not because of the signings as some think, but because the majority of the youth aren't good enough for the first team. LVG gave the youth players a chance to impress and they failed. That isn't on LVG, it's not because of a new 'Galactico' transfer strategy, it's because the youth aren't good enough.
The biggest beneficiary of this window, which Phelan has overlooked because he's a clueless fuck, is WIlson. He now moves up in the pecking order of strikers and is now surrounded by 3 top quality players to learn from and hopefully play with.