12-01-2015, 09:10 PM
I see what you are saying and that holds for many examples. In many others, it doesn't. What you are saying is:
Player A (Italian) with ability of 10, costs 20mil.
Player B (outside of Italy) with ability of 10, costs 5mil.
Obviously, most people would choose Player B. I would too. But I think in many situations, it is the other way around. Maybe not exactly, to where player B costs 20, and player A 5.......but many times the cost is the same at most. Also, sometimes the cost for player A (Italian) is ZERO since they are already in the academies.....but clubs focus on Player B because he offers "guarantees". In the meantime clubs end up just completely ignoring youth players for the most part.
This CAN be a problem depending on how you look at it. Just look at Barcelona. They've been able to spend ONLY on players that bring huge qualities to the team, while the rest of the squad has been made up of their own players for a long period of time now. On the other hand, we keep wasting a couple million here, a couple million there, a few mil salary here, a few mil salary there....all for squad players and average starters.
On top of that, the national team is clearly suffering so I'm sure Italians have a problem with it.
I do agree that clubs are not stopped from bringing youth players from a very young age if they find them. That's actually not the problem I have. My issue is not with whether the players are foreign or not. I'm not a nationalist myself, neither do I only want Italians to play for Milan (I want the best to play for Milan). If they are brought from a very young age from wherever, and brought up and developed...ultimately they will serve the club without the big costs that we pay for others that we didn't bring up through our youth system. So my argument is more geared towards using homegrown youth players (whether they are Italian or foreign) as opposed to using average players from outside of Italy.
Player A (Italian) with ability of 10, costs 20mil.
Player B (outside of Italy) with ability of 10, costs 5mil.
Obviously, most people would choose Player B. I would too. But I think in many situations, it is the other way around. Maybe not exactly, to where player B costs 20, and player A 5.......but many times the cost is the same at most. Also, sometimes the cost for player A (Italian) is ZERO since they are already in the academies.....but clubs focus on Player B because he offers "guarantees". In the meantime clubs end up just completely ignoring youth players for the most part.
This CAN be a problem depending on how you look at it. Just look at Barcelona. They've been able to spend ONLY on players that bring huge qualities to the team, while the rest of the squad has been made up of their own players for a long period of time now. On the other hand, we keep wasting a couple million here, a couple million there, a few mil salary here, a few mil salary there....all for squad players and average starters.
On top of that, the national team is clearly suffering so I'm sure Italians have a problem with it.
I do agree that clubs are not stopped from bringing youth players from a very young age if they find them. That's actually not the problem I have. My issue is not with whether the players are foreign or not. I'm not a nationalist myself, neither do I only want Italians to play for Milan (I want the best to play for Milan). If they are brought from a very young age from wherever, and brought up and developed...ultimately they will serve the club without the big costs that we pay for others that we didn't bring up through our youth system. So my argument is more geared towards using homegrown youth players (whether they are Italian or foreign) as opposed to using average players from outside of Italy.
