Federico Piazza

it would be suicide to do it the arsenal way. we can't play only talented youngsters in the first squad.

we should look at how barcelona is dealing with this issue. they have iniesta (now 21 years old) who is getting enough minutes for 3 years now. he is developing greatly and does not want to leave and barca is taking no harm at all (quite the opposite).

we should do the same. pick the most promising players we have and give them enough minutes to keep them happy. if they play some games as substitutes it won't harm us and we wouldn't waste the potential we have in the youth ranks (which seems to be quite a lot (marzoratti, legati, bloudek, ardemagni, di gennaro, piazza).


unfortunately we are not doing this at the moment and so i could understand very well if piazza decides to leave.

its been awhile since someone has come up through our youth ranks.

i'm quite sure that we could had more youngsters making it to the squad (maybe not the first eleven) in the last years if we wanted to. but at the moment this is just not the milan way. galliani & co have decided to go the safe path and we have to respect that. it's them who get the stick from fans and press if a youngster would fail so if one of us were responsible maybe we would go the safe way too.

Originally Posted by SANT

OK, so you would put Pirlo in the bench just to show you don't "hate" talented youngsters...

But I'm not wanting to sub Pirlo, that's not the question, you are distorting what I have said, frankly... to give some opportunities to a young talent doesn't mean that we have to drop an established player like Pirlo.

Originally Posted by acdc81

We should do the same. pick the most promising players we have and give them enough minutes to keep them happy. if they play some games as substitutes it won't harm us and we wouldn't waste the potential we have in the youth ranks (which seems to be quite a lot (marzoratti, legati, bloudek, ardemagni, di gennaro, piazza).

Perfect, that's exactly what I think, the most lucid and reasonable option to follow, that it's to say, to make our promising youngsters gradually acquainted with the great responsabilities and general demanding atmosphere of leagues like Serie A and Premiership.

And Warro is also correct: we must keep the player with us.