(03-31-2016, 10:34 PM)slifersd Wrote: 40M is a very large sum for Donna. As impressive as he has been, that's almost the price of the best keeper in the world, and Donna is nowhere near that level yet. His progression could also stall for a number of different reasons in the next few seasons, so it is a gamble either way for us. We could sell him and take the risk of him developing into one of the world's finest GK for the next 15 years; or keep him and take the risk of him not developing well DES style. Tough call.
I for one am not very sentimental when it comes to players. Players come and go, the club is the one thing that sticks around forever. Like somebody said, if selling Donna gives us two or three high quality players and make the team stronger, then I am all for it. But with Galli and Berlu in charge, the odds of that happening is almost non-existent. So we are better off keeping him around and try to develop him correctly.
You can't compare Donnarumma's development and De Sciglio's or most other players for example. At his best, De Sciglio still had a long way to go. Everyone (myself included) was basing his future on the account that he will keep growing but we all knew that if he doesn't keep improving he simply isn't good enough. In Donnarumma's case, even if he stops developing/improving today, he is still a top goalkeeper even the way he is right now. There is not much to lose.
I am not sentimental when it comes to players too. I could care less. This isn't about being sentimental and wanting a player to stay in Milan no matter if that means the club moves forward or not with that player. This is in fact about the club for me. I don't believe that the way forward is to get rid of a starting GK at 17 in order to get 40mil Euro.
What can we get with 40mil? Bacca costed 30mil man. This team needs 4-5 strong starters (AT LEAST) to be a contender in Europe and Italy (looking at Juventus). We are not going to get those 4-5 players with 40mil....so we may as well keep our future, keep our best performing current players and take it slow in developing the team a couple great players per year just like how we did last summer. That also means that we can't sign a couple great player but also sell 1 or 2 or we'll find ourselves walking in place.
If you tell me that selling Donnarumma will for example mean getting Berardi, Benatia, Witsel, Vazquez, Vrsaljko.....than ok. It may be a sacrifice worth making depending on how you look at it. But that won't happen. Because other clubs won't sell that easy. Sassuolo won't sell Berrardi for less than 30mil (yes Juventus has a clause for 25, but that's Juventus......they'll want higher bids and make Juve match that. That price is only for Juventus, not for anyone else) and Vrsaljko for less than 20; Witsel won't go for less than 25 (EVEN with only 1 year left in his contract), Vazquez will be AT LEAST 20 knowing Zamparini, and I'm not sure about Benatia...but any top CB will cost at least in the mid 20s. I just threw those names out there as an example....you can come up with as many others as you want of similar quality and the prices will be similar. Point being, even though selling Donnarumma will raise money...it won't fix the squad in itself. I would rather keep the kid and maybe get 1-2 of those players and continue the rebuilding over a couple of years while also having Donnarumma here.
Just my 2 cents...