(07-26-2012, 10:00 AM)Gabriel426 Wrote: We all can talk about investing in youth.....but between Maldini and Abate, Milan just had not produced any youth for the first team. I am not sure was it b/c of lack of funding or bad luck but it just shows that Milan is pretty crap with youth development.
Actually, you're wrong ...
Our youth development has been good over the years : just look at the number of players who play in Serie A or Serie B clubs and who come from Milan. Some play in big clubs, others in average clubs, etc.
The problem is that Milan doesn't give them a chance once they are 18-21, and as a consequence, they often do their career far from Milan and we don't even remember these guys were in Milan years before when we face them.
That's something the club has to work on, because unless we have a full team of WC players with almost WC players on the bench (which is, for sure, impossible to do in any club in the world), these players who are able to be starters in average/small clubs of Serie A (or better) could have been the players used for rotation in Milan, and as a consequence, they could have been useful, at least as useful as the average players we buy each season and who will be rotation players (economically, it's not really wise, and anyway, I'm sure these Milan products, if given a chance to play in first team, would be a lot more motivated than most of the players we could buy for the same rotation role, simply because they would love the shirt).
One should not speak ill of the dead.
So stop laughing at Juventus !
So stop laughing at Juventus !