06-12-2012, 09:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2012, 09:33 PM by ACMILAN1983.)
Selling Thiago isn't likely to help our long term finances, just as selling Kaka in the past wasn't. The club has mismanaged it's finances for years and now the plan is to try and sell our stars for as much as possible? Unlike clubs like Udinese who have an impressive scouting system in place to do this frequently, as well as accepting their position as a mid-tier side that's attempting to grow with a strict financial structure in place, we're a club that's for years been overspending and doesn't have the youth, scouting or financial structure in place to have a self-sustainable model in place.
I've been saying for the best part of a decade now that this had to change as this way we wouldn't be able to sustain the current structure. Our youth investment started too late and we never got the initial investment needed to phase in such a project. Instead the club spent the years overspending on needless salaries and purchasing players who can only offer performances on the pitch for a year or two before needing replacement. If I'm honest, I think that's part of the reason I wasn't so upset in seeing a lot of senators leaving this summer, as these guys should have been getting phased out back in 2007 with a younger, cheaper (at least salary wise) generation that could sustain competitiveness for another 5-6 years. Had we invested in our youth when we should have, we'd have players ready to start looking to play an important part of the first team squad now or in the next couple of years, rather than a realistic target of around 2015-2016 when our current upcoming youth are hopefully ready in the early-mid 20s.
Oh, as for using the stadiums as an excuse for the poor state of Italian football, this is a massive failing of Italian football. Spain, England and Germany have been investing as necessary in the infrastructure of the sport for years, with clubs looking to improve their stadiums and facilities over time to get where they are, not necessarily as a result of a major tournament, even if Germany had a lot of support for 2006. Italy showed arrogance during this time as Italian teams were top and stood still, letting Italian football stagnate rather than evolve.
I've been saying for the best part of a decade now that this had to change as this way we wouldn't be able to sustain the current structure. Our youth investment started too late and we never got the initial investment needed to phase in such a project. Instead the club spent the years overspending on needless salaries and purchasing players who can only offer performances on the pitch for a year or two before needing replacement. If I'm honest, I think that's part of the reason I wasn't so upset in seeing a lot of senators leaving this summer, as these guys should have been getting phased out back in 2007 with a younger, cheaper (at least salary wise) generation that could sustain competitiveness for another 5-6 years. Had we invested in our youth when we should have, we'd have players ready to start looking to play an important part of the first team squad now or in the next couple of years, rather than a realistic target of around 2015-2016 when our current upcoming youth are hopefully ready in the early-mid 20s.
Oh, as for using the stadiums as an excuse for the poor state of Italian football, this is a massive failing of Italian football. Spain, England and Germany have been investing as necessary in the infrastructure of the sport for years, with clubs looking to improve their stadiums and facilities over time to get where they are, not necessarily as a result of a major tournament, even if Germany had a lot of support for 2006. Italy showed arrogance during this time as Italian teams were top and stood still, letting Italian football stagnate rather than evolve.