I was searching for an article I read with Tom Taiwo, from a good while ago, that tore into the academy system. I can't find the whole thing but a small snippet below:

'At 16 I was rated as a very good prospect; now I’m at Carlisle. You see boys who weren’t rated at 16 who at 23 are playing for England. Chris Smalling, he was playing non-league. Now he’s a top player with Manchester United and England. It makes a mockery of the academy system, shows it is not the be-all and end-all. Boys like myself have been right through the system and now I’m nowhere near his standard. That’s the worry.”

That reads as pretty damming. However a quick look on Google shows that Tom Taiwo now works as a scout for......... The Chelsea Academy. I'm not sure it proves much beyond man needs job. However it does suggests he doesn't find the system completely morally objectionable.