Summer mercato 2012

[Siregar]

I agree with promoting and keeping De Sciglio. He can easily do the job of Antonini/Zambrotta but for half the cost. However, we keep throwing these kids to Serie C1 and C2 never to be heard of again. What ever happened to Guerci? I remember he was one of our top youth prospects from 4 or so years ago..nowhere to be seen now. Antonelli was a similar case, putting in good performances at LB only to be benched by Carlo. Gourcuff is a story I'm tired of discussing.

Props to Allegri for having faith in De Sciglio..and I hope this trend continues. Hernanes is welcomed news as well. Finally a good link for a change..

I agree with you about promoting young players although it should be stressed that it should be really hard for a coach to play a 18-20 years old player without experience in important game like Serie A or Champions League. Barca for example played their youngster after they got experience in Barca B (pretty much same like MU whose players played in reserve team). When a coach from a big team like Milan give chance to unproven player like Merkel, Strasser and De Sciglio in Serie A, credit should be given to him even they play in a condition where the first team players are out due to injuries (?except Sciclgio?)? But still, Allegri should play some players in Coppa (mix them with first team and bench player), something he still hasn't done yet.

I like the idea of promoting 1-2 players from youth team every season (not only promoting their name but also playing them). With kind of this strategy, they could get hyped and be loaned to Serie A club (not Serie B) with fair chance to get games in the small club in Serie A (like Merkel). Playing games in Serie A for U21 player turn them to a much better player hopefully.

De Sciglio should be however stay with Milan. He should get more chances next season since Milan don't have proper left fullback right now (only backup level) and lack of substitute for right fullback and we know De Sciglio could play for RB and LB (I don't know if he plays much better on the right side?).