I think Inter actually has a very good training/scouting youth system; I am saying this because I noticed all these "potential" exciting young players are all excelled in areas like set pieces, tactical off ball movements, finishing etc., quite sure these are things that can be achieved through rigid systematic training, and you also need to be able to learn and have at least some potential/smartness to start off with, but that actually led me to a question:
Are we caging their potential with this rigid training, just like traditional schooling takes away a kid's creativity; like regardless your raw potential is at the 99th percentile or 60th percentile, with this kinda training, it will mode you into a 75th-85th percentile player
Or
we are only able to scout players with potential, lets say 80th percentile at the best, and to land on the super stars one we just need extremely rare luck.
Cause I think players like Sebastiano Esposito or Martin Satriano, the age when they will be ripe for Inter would be around 28,29; if lucky you would dare to play them around 26 which assuming they have a steady development.
I think the reason we cannot integrate youth players into the first team, has to do with the play style of the league and the team, first of Inter/seria A in general don't value or focus on speed and stamina or fluid plays as much as timely manner, precision and strategic etc. and those normally comes better with age, like you have more experience you know when to do what kinda thing, while younger folks have more advantage on pace, stamina in general, and since clinical and precision is normally what the team relies on, the room for error is relatively lower than a team that relies on run and pace, cause you normally account for recovery for the later style. (like running back in time, have the energy to go back and forth more etc.)
I don't think Zaniolo would've became what he is even he was given the opportunity to play for the first team here, cause Roma is quite different from normal Serie A team, which they run a lot with the higher acceptance of errors; and you learn the other attributes as you play more.
The exceptions for players to start young in the top team, are rather smart and skillful that they can achieve that understanding or ability at a young age or they have some exceptional ability in some key area that set them top 5-10% of the league, like Totti, del piero, cassano, Nesta or for Inter's examples Icardi, Skriniar, Balotelli (Just for clarity I love Skriniar, and I mean no disrespect to him, by putting his name next to the other 2)
Cause for other league young players they might never get the chance over here like Rashford.
With all that said, I think Inzaghi's style might lead to more room for playing younger players, but his willingness might be a different topic (Dzeko
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