the guys need experience and the only way is to give them serie A experience. Italy u21 side have beaten the same nertharlands side that qualified for the semi and quater finals of this world cup. part of that team was donati and caldirola which both have flourished in germany. Inter were screaming for a hard working right wing back and donati was there. instead they stuck to jonathan
the likes of napoli inter have a majority of forein players and their team don't have the core of players that juve have and that's why the fail. Inter have the best youth setup in italy, matching ajax with the eufa youth CL. Most of the inter players play in seri B-C whereas the ajax players are developing well at ajax and will become very good players.
There's a big difference between becoming a good but ordinary and an extraordinary player. As i happen to watch the Bundesliga as much as i can and i can confirm both players you mentioned are just that, good but ordinary. Ajax on the other hand has one of the best youth system in the world and will always produce one or two players who will fit the above average/top class category.
Holding average players hands, doesnt make them stars.
Serie a was never that keen on youth, yet back when they werent shit like today, they still came trough and became stars
Quality allways goes to surface
But we lack quality in the league
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I'm really starting to get annoyed by how holding hands with suddenly make youngsters become the current generation of germans.
It doesnt.
The "he needs time at a top team" is even worse bullshit. In Belgium and Holland, several stars have came and went. The foreign teams were interested after they were proving themselves. A player who cannot perform outstanding at a poor team, isnt a great player. No excuses please
Agreed. I've seen too many stars before they were stars, you can always tell how they differ from everybody else. Ronaldo at 16 yo was such a thing to watch, you knew he was gonna be big one day. Real talent will always outshine over the rest and Italy right now has nobody that show that kind of talent.
It took the Germans a decade to fix their whole system. They built many schools to teach young coaches how to coach, they produced players accordingly to what is required in Football today, 70% physical 30% technical. Etc...
The great Paul Breitner was in Brazil 2 years ago and he gave this interview explaining what changed in Germany's Football from 2002 to today, and there was this thing he said that amazed me how ahead their thinking was. Imagine if we were see talent, just talent alone as ratings, from 0 to 10...
He said instead of focusing on producing one or two
rating 10 players and a hundred
4's or 5's or 6's, they focused on making everybody become
8's and 8.5's so that means each individual might not become Messi's but when they play together, the collectivity would overcome anything. The whole concept is really genius.