Because you subscribe to the same M.O. in every single situation when it comes to the youth players. Your sarcastic post above irks someone that way. You seem to always be a main advocate of the loan system and simply judge a player based on whether he makes it back to Juventus. If somehow he does and gets a starting role from time to time, you label it a success. If he doesn't, you label him a failure -- regardless of the internals at the club. You have a very puppy-like view on our youth system, one that has obvious flaws.
That's bullshit. I would like nothing more than to see our first team consisting of a bunch of youth players. As would everyone I'd imagine.
But what I have realised over the past few years, is that our youth players just haven't been that great.
But for the record, I'm ok with loans as long as you don't exaggerate with it. Which we, and most (big) Italian clubs as well, are clearly doing. Thanks mostly to the lack of 2nd teams.
You, on the other hand, always seem to defend the (former) youth players. Saying that when or if they don't make it at Juve, it's not their fault but it's the fault of the club (be it coach, management or whatever). To say it in your words: that's some kneejerking all right.
Look, I have asked the question numerous times already, yet have never received an answer: Name me one player that we developped in the youth sector & subsequently lost to a different team, that you would like to have in the team today?
Lanzafame didn't get much of chance anyway, not that I would have wanted him to. But it's a bit pathetic to try to tie in a Lanzafame to Giovinco when one was showing decent play long before we brought back the other guy from a world tour to Ulan-Bator and back.
Well I am not one of the people who have been very impressed with Giovinco, be it today, 1 year ago or 3 years ago. So I'm obviously going to tie that into Lanzafame. Another talented kid, that I haven't been impressed with.
I saw some great performances by Giovinco at times & I saw some lousy ones. But most of all I saw (or think at least) that Gio just isn't good enough & that all the hype was mostly uncalled for.
Last season, I happened to see some great games by Lanzafame as well (admittedly that was a coincidence, since I do not generally watch Parma), but not enough to justify the enourmous hype that was surrounding this kid earlier. To be clear, I'm talking about the hype in the Italian media in this case.
So is it really that insane of me to see some similarities between the 2?
Plus you originally defended his signing again, am I right?
I honestly don't remember that, which probably means I didn't care one way or the other. When it comes to back up players for the back up players, I generally don't think about it that much. If a few monts ago Lanza was fine with that role in the team, then I'm fine with it as well. Had it been Giovinco who had been fine in that role, it would have been ok for me as well.
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