Is there any worry from German fans that the quality of player they are producing isn't as good as the top countries anymore?
In the German National Team, there's currently two youth eligible players on the team, Havertz and Serdar. Serdar also was only a replacement player for an injured player, and no one would mistake him for some future star. Havertz appears to be the only young German who matches up to what is being produced by teams like France, Germany, Brazil and England.
If you look at the youth teams for Germany, most of them either don't play at good teams or if they play at a good team, they don't play. What happened to the quality of players being produced by Germany?
The 97s & 98s were terrible age groups for us and those are currently the 20-22 year-olds that are usually the leading figures of any youth movement...although the 97ers are starting to put together some NT-caliber depth; even if Torunarigha & Mittelstadt are the only realistic starters IMO...throw in that the 99ers lacked elite talent beyond Havertz, Meier, & Itter*, and it's not really a surprise that those age groups are doing little for the NT.
Plus those weak age groups are still populating the eldest youth NTs; meaning that there are a lot of sub-senior-NT spots for the more talented players from younger age groups to fill. Which, when add to our senior NT having a lot of 23 & 24 year old talent to lean on -- Sane, Gnabry, Brandt, Werner, Amiri, Waldschmidt, Kimmich, Goretzka, M. Eggestein, Weigl, Klostermann, Kehrer, Tah, Süle -- means that there's little impulse to rush talents from the 2000ers & younger age groups, who could be breaking in on a weaker NT.
Basically; since the stacked 95ers & 96ers made it to the senior level, we've been waiting for the kids born this millennium to start formulating the next wave. Especially since those 95ers/96ers + Kai + a few key older pieces, is more than enough talent for Jogi to fail with. Though some big injuries robbing top talents like J. Eggestein & Mbom of key developmental season and Leipzig wasting a year of development for their kids, have delayed that next wave a bit at present.
*and his development hasn't exactly gone as smoothly as Lahm's did
Same thing really