This is why we should have gotten our youth system in order as soon as Calciopoli hit. We should have invested more money in our program, tried to pull in younger starlets everywhere from Bari to Brasilia, and also purchased younger players for the first team. I'm talking about 19 or 20 year-olds here. But at the time, nobody wanted to do that, with most opting to be greedy in trying to get back on top in a couple of years.
Well, it doesn't work that way. And it was a failure.
Taking the Wenger approach made a hell of a lot of sense at the time. I'm with the likes of Sergio who say this should have been the plan long ago. And most probably, we would already have a good base of younger, talented players by now so that we wouldn't have to address this in 2010.
It might seem like a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, but it really isn't. This plan has been presented before. It's a bit late.