Summer Mercato

[Siregar]

Simple question, open to anyone with answers. Yesterday I posted what I think is a very important point about the age of this group of players. In two years, less than half of this squad will be under 30 and almost a third will be into their mid 30s. The chances of all of those "young" players having a status of being important players is very slim, not just because a lot of them have yet to show they can grow to the expected level, but also that experience and history generally shows that getting 100% success in developing players is next to impossible. Knowing the financial situation and the direction and management seen in the past few years, how does the club rebuild towards a competitive future?

Above is also my thought, what will happen to this team? Do this team have future? As I said, assuming we could get top three and what? Money from CL did not give impact to our transfer budget (last season for example). Either we build a team for the future from our best prospect or buying quality players which cost a lot of money. The first mentioned option is available for us but unfortunately we don't follow our set up policy, youth policy.

I do understand change of your interest for this club. The reason for me is this team have no future due to very bad management (not due to our ability). I was so motivated with our new team under Inzaghi (actually not the team but the spirit they have now) but suddenly the motivation get lost.

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Siregar, again, I'm not comparing us with Man U and Barca and their situation and squad and what not. I just gave an example of how they lost players for the same reason we lost Cristante for. I said they world class players in place, so it was less of a big deal for them. (even though in Man U's case Tom Cleverley and Carrick are hardly world class to begin with)
Like Mystik said, I think we differ in our opinions because I don't think Cristante is a better player then Muntari for example (this season, right now). I don't think he is ready to be a focal point in the team and I think he should've been a player that was going to get minutes to develop and possibly turn out as a good player for us in a year or two. Believe me, I don't like the fact that we lost hiim too....but I don't think it's the end of the world.
In any case, we'll see how things develop during the coarse of this season and we'll know more then if the club made good moves this summer or not. I do not completely disagree with you guys about most of the points you are making.....I think I'm just a little more accepting of what happened with Cristante and don't view it as something huge.

@Jokka, I have bombarded Galliani for a couple years now and have always said that he has been a problem. He made some terrible decisions. However, looking at this summer alone, in my opinion he did a good job with what he was allowed to work with. He gave Robinho for free because nobody was willing to pay for him. Same with Birsa, Noce and Matri. The mistake with these guys was made in previous mercatos (when we signed them), something we can't do anything about now. It's not like Galliani can forcefully make teams buy these guys. He did good to get them off our wage bill (or most of their wages at least). Nobody wanted these guys. Again, the mistake with these guys was made before this summer. Judging this summer alone, I'm just glad they are not here anymore.
Galliani may be a disaster and he definitely was for the last few years.....but I maintain my stance that he did a decent job this summer. All "experts" and newspapers are also ranking our mercato up there at the top with Roma's. Time will tell if this summer was good. We will know more during the season and when results start coming in.

It is ok that you rate Muntari for example better than Cristante, his exact quality or talent is debatable but all should agree that he is a talented midfielder, the best one we have that has quality to play for this team, at least a year or too like you said. I also agree that he is not ready to be a focal point to current team but he could be useful as sub or squad rotation. If we can't produce player like De S (debut, not long time to wait turn to regular starter) but if our youth products could contribute to our team, we should include them. If we can't find space for them, players who could contribute to our team in a couple of years, we can loan them out.

It is about how we strict to our policy, our intention to build a team from our youth or young players we buy.

We clearly see that we sold him just in 1 maximum 2 days. It is just shocked that we all of sudden sell him (the rumour was a loan) and we all know we get Bonaventura (Galliani said Cristante's money to seal the deal). We are also informed that Zacardo rejected to move which should mean we have to increase our offer to Parma for Babiany. In my opinion, sale of Cristante is all about money, a little money (actually big amount for us).