(08-21-2017, 12:03 AM)devoted_dm Wrote: According to Montella Milan took Crutone off the market before tonight's match, so I guess he is staying. Good news as far as I'm concerned!
Posted this about him in the match thread as I wanted to say something similar:
Few 18 year olds can have better Serie A debuts than he did. Penalty won, great movement in the goal he scored and assisted. His best quality at the moment seems to be his positioning. His performance was Belotti-esque yesterday. Remains to be seen how well he can consistently hold the ball up, make passes without losing the ball. The kid will make mistakes, plenty of them. I really hope he goes out on loan. We cannot afford to play him and watch him mature, we aren't the Milan of the past anymore. We spent 230 million not to gamble on 18 year olds and Cutrone is a gamble not a certainty. I'd say a Serie A loan to Crotone would do him good and we can go for our star striker instead.
Keeping Cutrone at Milan would be bad for all parties involved. Milan will suffer as times will come where we'll need to use our third striker and the pressure will be on Cutrone. Pressure like that at a club like Milan for an 18 year old can really break you - ask Pato and Gilardino. After failing at Milan those players were never really the same again. Cutrone is someone who at the moment seems to only possess good positioning with a good finish. He needs to work on his technique, body balance/physicality and passes. He can only improve vastly on that by playing regularly and we can't offer him that. Cutrone's growth will slow down and Milan won't have that 20 goals/season striker that we sorely need ahead of Cutrone.
We have Silva + Kalinic now. We just need that icing on the cake. A world-class LW or CF with another v.good mezzala. Cutrone can go to Crotone and aim to get 10 goals this season and if he does that, we can bring him back next year and reassess. Plus Cutrone-Crotone just sounds good together just like Arsenal-Arsene. I feel we owe to destiny to make it happen
