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I don't think so, actually I'd say Italian talents are possibly recovering. Basically I think the last great generation was basically the guys who won WC 2006. After that, Italy has seen a sharp decline in talented players coming through, many of the great prospects hugely under delivering. There are numerous possible reasons for that, but basically that's a different discussion. Anyway, I think today we're starting to see some recovery in talents coming through, but it takes time to recover.

But if you look at it, you have young keepers like Perin, Scuffet and Donnarruma. Defenders you have guys like Romagnoli and Rugani, but also more experienced guys like Bonucci (who is imo underrated by many) and Tonelli (again, underrated). Fullbacks are good too, guys like DES, Darmian, Calabria etc. In midfield there's a number too, like Verratti, Jorginho, Bertolacci, Bonaventura, Sturaro and Florenzi. Even in attack there are guys like Berardi, Balotelli (if he comes good), Insigne, El Shaarawy (again, if he comes good). Point is, there's talent there, that's not even mentioning players coming through the youth set up.

As it is, Italy's not going to win the world cup with these guys, they're still far away from Germany and Spain in youth development. There's a lot of work needed, but I think Italy has some good players, certainly an improvement from what they had in the last generation. I'd say it's a better situation than England and Holland. Question is whether these guys can come through successfully. Italy's youth development has a lot of problems that need sorting, if they don't, they could end up like England.

Napoli - Juve is on, Napoli looking dominant.