Summer mercato 2012

[Siregar]

The people saying that there is just a lack of talent in Italy nowadays : how do you explain that such a small country like Netherlands manages to produce new talents (despite having an overall poor championship with no big team anymore) each season ?

I do think, there is correlation between the trust of the clubs in the country to the local players (like in Germany for example) with the producing of good quality of local players. The reformation of the youth development in Germany a decade ago plays big role for their success now in producing quality players but the trust from the club itself also support the development of the young players, IMO. In Italy the trust is getting lower and lower. When teams like Milan and Juve splashed big money to buy foreign stars (in 90s), the small clubs in Serie A gived chances to the local players. Now, the small clubs develop young players from other country, gives less chance for Italian players to develop in Serie A and B.

Italy really should follow Spain or Germany in how they have B team in lower-level competition (especially in Spain, the B team can promote to Segunda Division if the A team play in Primera Division). Players like Merkel, Strasser, De Sciglio, Calvano, Carmona etc could be really usefull for Milan when after they have played 1-2 seasons in Primavera, play regularly for example in Serie C (or better in Serie B like in Spain) and would be included to Milan first team when Milan need them like this season when so many players are injured (but the problem is they have no experience like De Sciglio except players like Merkel and Strasser).