I haven’t seen a game so far this year, bar maybe 15 minutes against Benfica. In a way I regret it, but the truth is that I simple have been to busy these months, and I tried to be cautious aswel. In the end it consumes a lot of time and I wanted to see what we were going to do with Miretti, Fagioli and Soule in the first team. Everything looks fine now but let’s not forget that we needed more than 10 injuries before seeing Fagioli from the start.
It seems like this team is doing a great job and we have to give compliments to our scouting. First in the league and qualified for the next round in the YL. Lets not forget that unlike other Italian youth teams, we send guys to the U23 while they’d still play for U19 at any other Italian club. Even with doing that we remain competitive every year in the Primavera 1. That’s a big achievement.
If we look to only 2,5 years ago, the only relevant team to follow was the U19 with Dragusin, Ranocchia and Fagioli. Not many other players away on loan of players with high expectations in the U23. We’re now finding ourself in a situation where we have Iling, Fagioli, Miretti, Soule (and Gatti) in the first team, Rovella, Ranocchia and De Winter away on loan in Serie A
And now we should have some very interesting players aswel. We’re stacked with young players, this should be the first time in probably our history that the volume was so big. Yildiz, Mulazzi, Barbieri, Turco, Muharemovic, Huijsen, Mancini in U19/U23 now
Obviously most of them won’t reach the first team but this is without a doubt the successful part of the club, unlike our finances, sportive achievements, marketing or whatever.