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lets try a different approach.
Are you happy with what the youth team has delivered to the first team in the last few years, and what it looks like it will be capable of delivering in the next few years? Considering every season we spend the equivalent of Alvarez, or Motta, or Sneijder even on it?
It is way too early to tell. The players that we spent the bigger bucks on are still under 20 years old. You know for a fact that Livaja, Tassi and Alborno will never contribute to the first team??
A lot of the guys you mentioned were nothing too special until they hit 23-25 years old, or at least the better ones. I mean we do have players in that age range or younger that are playing in the Serie A, so we can produce some talent...
Biabiany - Parma
Bolzoni - Siena
Bonucci - Juventus
Dellafiore - Novara
Destro - Siena
Faraoni - Inter
Krhin - Bologna
Meggiorini - Novara
Obi - Inter
So 9 Serie A players in the last 7 years. I agree that it is a small number, but we have just recently been investing more money on the youth team. I don't remember spending the amount of money we recently have spent on young players, 5 or 6 years ago. I think this next class of players will be strong, but we cannot just write them off when they are 19 years old, Italian soccer is very tough for youngsters, so we should not have the same expectations from them as players coming though English or Spanish football.
You have high expectations and there is nothing wrong with that, because if this class of players only produces 1 or 2 strong players, I will be disappointed as well.