Summer Mercato

[Siregar]

We haven't gotten any concrete offers for SES and DES as far as I know, so it's difficult to say that they are steadfast on the whole project. But we did receive a € 6M offer for Cristante which we are yet to accept. But it's a completely different story when Real Madrid or PSG come knocking on the door with a 30M+ offer. We'll see.

Well, 30M+ offer for a 19-year-old player who are still yet to find his place in the starting line-up is worth to consider.

Frankly the fact that we haven't sold SES and DES is the only thing holding the youth project together. What ever happened to that U23 policy? Of course we did get Balotelli, Poli and Saponara but for each of these players there are countless players past their time. And did we not just offload half a dozen youth players during this mercato? Essentially all of our 20 year olds. Most of them have gone on to minor clubs (Serie B and C, as opposed to the Aubameyangs, Darmians and Merkels which originally went to smaller Serie A sides). So maybe they weren't that great and the management is "excused" for not betting on them. But doesn't that make you question the quality of our youth academy? Of course, we've yet to see what will become of the 16-18 year olds.

It is too early to tell if the management is really trying to build on youth. As with our nescience on any offers for SES and DES, we'll only find out when we get there. But given their recent track record, I think my skepticism is very well grounded.

The bold part is only the real proof for me, if Galliani really sell them for market price even the management buy the replacement it is just showing they have no plan at all for the future of this team aka it is then useless for fans to follow Milan again.

Many of our young players were sent out either on loan (in the past, co-ownership) or straight sale since they are just not good enough to play for the first team and I am sure that most of young players in Italy are like that. They need experience before playing for club who compete in Serie A. The problem is they just don't have good chance to get their games to develop themselves. I just can not think that we still do not have a B team or reserve team. Such team won't make an average young player turn to be quality one but it should accelerate and optimize their development.

Look at Darmian. He was our talent but he was just not good enough especially for our very good team then after spending a couple of seasons in small teams we are desperate to get him. Same with Aubameyang. IF we have B or reserve team, we might not loose them especially for such a low compensation.