L'Equipe reports Paris Saint-Germain are seeking to purchase a feeder club in Spain or the Netherlands with a view to developing their best youth academy talent.
Though PSG's owners, Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), have brought almost immediate success by purchasing established stars such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani and David Luiz for high fees, they have also sought to secure sustained long-term achievement.
Promising youngsters such as Marco Verratti, Marquinhos and Lucas have also been signed for significant fees, but QSI stated upon taking charge of PSG in 2011 that they hoped to nurture fledgling talent of their own.
L'Equipe claims the Ligue 1 champions have targeted the Dutch and Spanish leagues as those in which PSG youth academy products could best flourish before returning to the Parc des Princes to challenge for a first-team place.
Not since Mamadou Sakho's departure for Liverpool in 2013 has a player that has come through PSG's youth academy ranks featured regularly in the starting XI.
The paper also reports PSG have increased their recruiting cell for young players from five to 21 scouts in the last 20 months with Italy and Spain being scoured in particular for potential stars of the future.
Unlike Ligue 1 clubs such as Rennes or -- more recently -- Lyon, PSG have never been renowned for their youth policy with Sakho and Clement Chantome, who left the club in January to join Bordeaux in search of more playing time, among the rare few to have made it into the first team after starting in the Champions League quarterfinalists' junior teams.
In June 2012, another Ligue 1 side, Lille, became the majority shareholder in Belgian outfit Mouscron in the hope of achieving a similar goal while PSG had Swiss side Servette as a feeder club between 1997 and 2002.