Yaar, I was listening to the old Goa vs Mohun Bagan 1996 final on my radio while oiling a worn-out leather satchel last night. That football—that possession, that patience—it was like watching a good tailor work: every stitch has a reason, no hurry. But I saw the numbers last season: only 3 academy boys got real minutes in the ISL. You don’t build a promise on borrowed talent, you build it on the soil you water every day. If the club board spent even half the energy haggling over foreign signings as they do keeping the local structure fair, we wouldn’t be arguing about “potential” in every post.