This concept is paying off, I am sure about that. I see in Italian media that lots of other clubs are interested in having a youth team in Serie C. Glad we took the chance.
Debuted in first XI: Fagioli, Miretti, Illing Jr., Barrenechea, Soulé and Barbieri. Not all because of quality offcourse, also a lack of depth in squad in combination with injuries.
This is the 4th year in Serie C I think? Other clubs are more interested now in our players because they already developed at a higher level. And if talents are already 20+ they are not on a dead track like before because nothing happend after Primavera and they got loaned to random clubs in Serie C or D.
We sold: Hwang-Son (Emirates 7M), Tongya (8M), Petrelli (8M), Pereira (7.5M), Mavdidid (6.3M), Frederiksen (2M), Zanimacchia (3M), Beruatto (2.1M) and lot of other players for around 1M.
Disclaimer: some players are inflated prices because of swapdeals etc.
Some of them aren't sold/ or for low fee and doing a good job right now, what is good for our exposure of Next Gen, some examples:
Hans Nicolussi (Salernitana)
Kastanos (Salernitana)
Portanova (Genoa)
Dragusin (Genoa)
Frabotta (Frosinone)
Mavididi (Montepellier)
Israel (Sporting Portugal)
Aké (Dijon)
I think it is good developement for youngsters and easier to adapt into the first team. It is possible that a world class youngster wil reach the starting XI by us and otherwhise we can fill the squad with good rotation players with heart for the club and on low salary costs.
On the other side is at a more profitable bussiness then before (read: Primavera and after that loan out until transfer free). We could sell the youngsters to other clubs even for low fees but it is better than nothing. Obviously there is no space for every youth players so we should maximize their value before they end up worth nothing.