06-08-2016, 05:15 PM
The Italian Milan initiative can work, if given the proper support and environment for it to prosper. If we just make it our mission to stockpile young talents and promote youngsters from internal youth teams, we could set ourselves up to be the new Dortmund, provided we pick the right players, develop them correctly and don't over expose them early to raise unrealistic expectations. All of this can be exciting, except that our management has been known to be very impatient (how many ugly games before Berlu decides to pull the plug on this initiative) and we have a terrible track record at developing young players (Pato, ELS, DES, Sokratis, etc.). The project itself is not a bad one, and plenty of teams around Europe had adopted to it and achieved success, but I really have a hard time seeing us achieving that same success with it, given our shortcomings as a team.
The confusing part to me, is why is Berlu trying to do this? I get the fact that it is cheaper, but Berlu is 80 years old. And even if he doesn't sell the team now (good chance of that, it seems), you have to think there is a chance that he might not even live long enough to see a young Milan team win anything, even if the project works out. And make no mistake about it, as soon as Berlu passes away, his family is selling the team to the first buyer that comes along. Adopting to this policy pretty much guarantees Berlu will go trophyless in the last decade of his ownership. As the gigantic egomaniac that Berlu is, is that really the legacy he wants to leave behind? Berlu's motivations these days are just confusing and illogical to me.
The confusing part to me, is why is Berlu trying to do this? I get the fact that it is cheaper, but Berlu is 80 years old. And even if he doesn't sell the team now (good chance of that, it seems), you have to think there is a chance that he might not even live long enough to see a young Milan team win anything, even if the project works out. And make no mistake about it, as soon as Berlu passes away, his family is selling the team to the first buyer that comes along. Adopting to this policy pretty much guarantees Berlu will go trophyless in the last decade of his ownership. As the gigantic egomaniac that Berlu is, is that really the legacy he wants to leave behind? Berlu's motivations these days are just confusing and illogical to me.