And does it have to be

an Italian talent

? The guy is great no argument there but all what i'm saying is that there are other foreign talented players out there who are even much younger and can be part of this team for a "much" longer periods.
I had a similar argument with some of the guys here when we first brought Amauri 2 years ago. They've been saying that age is never a factor but i've said back then that few years down the road we will find our selves in a situation were we have many holes in the team that we have to fill with quality players who will cost the club alot yet we'll have another problem in replacing our strikers who will be in their 30's at the time.
We had no problem when we brought in (the pre-calciopoli era) 28-29 year old players like Nedved and Vieira because we had an already great team that needed those "extra" quality additions.
Age "IS" a huge factor right now when we're building a team from scratch.