(08-22-2021, 10:22 PM)reza Wrote: We have some good young players but I don't think Bennacer, Kessie, Tonali, even Theo are products of good scouting. They were talked about around football world before coming to Milan. To me good scouting finds players like Saelemaekers (and players better than Saelemaekers), may be Kalulu and Ballo Toure fit and of course if they improve a lot, someone like Kerkez as another example. Also imo a 28 million dollar player is useless as a 'scouting team building' so I wouldn't include Tomori.
Why are the ones you listed not a product of scouting? I see what you mean about the likes of Salemaekers, Kerkez, etc. But also, credit has to be given to the people thag watched Theo play and had an idea that he has certain characteristics to become what he is today. Sometimes when you scout, you don't get 1st shot at the players you scouted. Hell, maybe you even missed them when they were 16/17/18. But that doesn't mean that you don't get credit if you "discover them" when they are 21/22/23. At the end of the day, nobody believed in Theo but Milan. Nobody thought Bennacer is worth the 15-17M but Milan. Arsenal even kicked him out like a piece of trash. So the fact that someone at Milan stopped and said "wait, there is something there...this is the job he can do here...let's sign him"....that has to count for something and scouting had to be praised for that.
I think scouting and building a team is a lot more then watching 17 year olds and discovering them and I think we've proven that exactly with the players you mentioned...including Tomori (again, who in their right mind thought he's as good as he has been?...people were laughing when we signed him to begin with)
