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10 years of FIFThis.
This is the one that annoys me to no end.
Not Gabigol, a player playing in a position where we're pretty stacked, and whose purchase is clearly a doing from upstairs.
Not Pinamonti, who has to battle it out with (dare I say it?) the best forward in Serie A.
Not Gnoukouri, who plays in midfield, and has/had to battle it out with Brozovic, Kondogbia, Banega, Joao Mario and the likes - all clearly superior players.
But Miangue.
The few times he's played, he's been our best left-back. Full stop. And that's not an overestimation based on his age or me wanting to see more of him.
Better than Nagatomo, who's been a great servant for this club for a lot of years, but is clearly past it.
Better than Ansaldi, who's a complete dud (I called it, by the way).
Better than D'Ambrosio, who's better on the right.
And better than the walking injury Santon.
So why is Pioli preferring experience and conservatism for the sake of conservatism, instead of giving this kid the chance to hit the ground running? I'm not going to blame the coach completely, since, what's the point of tinkering with a winning squad? But this exactly has been one of the major shortcomings of this club for....all the time that I have supported it, basically.
Suning have publicly said, that one of their goals during their ownership, was for Primavera players to rise through the ranks, join the first team squad and then hopefully do something meaningful.
So why is it when someone impresses like Miangue has done (at the very least you can argue, that he hasn't looked out of sorts - and even then he has so much more upside than any other leftback in our squad), we don't insist on letting them keep impressing? This happened with Benassi, it happened with Gnoukouri, it happened to an extent with Duncan, and it's happening with Miangue now.
But no - if we do buy young players, they have to be foreign (Brozovic, Kovacic, Barbosa, and everyone else you can name) or from another club (Gagliardini) - and then they get a lot of chances to impress. Why don't we maintain that policy, for our own players, who have come up through our own ranks? Why didn't we give Puscas or Bonazzolli the leeway we've given Kondgbia, for instance?
It's mindboggling and especially infuriating, when Miangue plays in a position which is clear for all to see is our weakest link. Tell me: if we're not going to buy a proven, quality fullback in this window anyway, where's the downside in selling one of Ansaldi and Nagatomo, and have Miangue be the first reserve for the position? I have a feeling, if we gave him chances, he'd make the position his in a heartbeat - and who knows?- maybe we'd then save the 20 odd million euros we're planning to spend on Rodriguez come summer.
Instead, a week from now, we'll hastily send him on a boat on route to Sardinia, and we'll never hear from him again. It's the Inter way.
This is the one that annoys me to no end.
Not Gabigol, a player playing in a position where we're pretty stacked, and whose purchase is clearly a doing from upstairs.
Not Pinamonti, who has to battle it out with (dare I say it?) the best forward in Serie A.
Not Gnoukouri, who plays in midfield, and has/had to battle it out with Brozovic, Kondogbia, Banega, Joao Mario and the likes - all clearly superior players.
But Miangue.
The few times he's played, he's been our best left-back. Full stop. And that's not an overestimation based on his age or me wanting to see more of him.
Better than Nagatomo, who's been a great servant for this club for a lot of years, but is clearly past it.
Better than Ansaldi, who's a complete dud (I called it, by the way).
Better than D'Ambrosio, who's better on the right.
And better than the walking injury Santon.
So why is Pioli preferring experience and conservatism for the sake of conservatism, instead of giving this kid the chance to hit the ground running? I'm not going to blame the coach completely, since, what's the point of tinkering with a winning squad? But this exactly has been one of the major shortcomings of this club for....all the time that I have supported it, basically.
Suning have publicly said, that one of their goals during their ownership, was for Primavera players to rise through the ranks, join the first team squad and then hopefully do something meaningful.
So why is it when someone impresses like Miangue has done (at the very least you can argue, that he hasn't looked out of sorts - and even then he has so much more upside than any other leftback in our squad), we don't insist on letting them keep impressing? This happened with Benassi, it happened with Gnoukouri, it happened to an extent with Duncan, and it's happening with Miangue now.
But no - if we do buy young players, they have to be foreign (Brozovic, Kovacic, Barbosa, and everyone else you can name) or from another club (Gagliardini) - and then they get a lot of chances to impress. Why don't we maintain that policy, for our own players, who have come up through our own ranks? Why didn't we give Puscas or Bonazzolli the leeway we've given Kondgbia, for instance?
It's mindboggling and especially infuriating, when Miangue plays in a position which is clear for all to see is our weakest link. Tell me: if we're not going to buy a proven, quality fullback in this window anyway, where's the downside in selling one of Ansaldi and Nagatomo, and have Miangue be the first reserve for the position? I have a feeling, if we gave him chances, he'd make the position his in a heartbeat - and who knows?- maybe we'd then save the 20 odd million euros we're planning to spend on Rodriguez come summer.
Instead, a week from now, we'll hastily send him on a boat on route to Sardinia, and we'll never hear from him again. It's the Inter way.
