Seriously, you don't understand by "buying" ofc I mean for the sake of first team benefits?!? Every teams have their own academy. I mean respecting kids and willing to give them a chance. You are just proving my point, hundreds of kids but not even 10% are not being treated like bargaining chips. It happens for 13 years, so no coach is of alone responsibility.
That is a system. There have been teams like Dortmund or Ajax or Barca. There are the current Milan, they are buying good u25s for bargaining price. And here I emphasize again, "buy" I means "buy and use". Not spend the money then dump him on the bench or loan to freaking Basel or Troyes and you call that we are treating them properly.
Those players where at large bought to the first team in those 13 years. A few was bought as long term investments and send out on loan to gather experience and playing time. Others ended up like that because the coach refused to use them to any large extent of one reason or another, or they simply failed to make a mark.
Very few of those where in fact academy players, if I included those players the list would have have been endless.
The directors can do nothing about it if a coach decides not to use said players, it’s the coach who selects the team to play the game not the directors. They can buy several every single season as they done the past 13 years, but if the coach refuses to use them they can do nothing about it, other then fire him and hope the next one will.
The directors have bought plenty of under 24 players, they taken sufficient chances on the market and are not focusing only on old experienced players as you indicated that they are… They have for years tried to make a balance of both experience and talent. Zhang even gave a guideline for average age at some point, but it’s out of their power if a coach refuses to put those players into action. They can try convincing and speak to the coach about it, but at the end of day it’s the coach who select the team..
Inzaghi is well known for showing little trust to none experienced players, Conte was a little better but not all that much and the list of coaches Inter had in those years with a similar attitude is extensive.
Milan basically at large only bought young players with a few exceptions, the coach had no real other choice then to field them. But Inter try a more balanced approach those it can have the effect that young players entirely end on the bench, however that has not been the case for years, it gotten loads better. But it’s still a challenge because of the conservative attitude and valuation of youth still precent among Italian coaches and in fact the country as whole.
But Inter directors brought in more then 40 players in that age, you can not realistically expect them to do more then they do, they have done plenty. The issue is entirely on the coach now and in the past it was also on not being good enough at selecting the right ones.
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