Asllani was even Serie A starter before joining us.
And I say "on top". This season Allegri used SIX youngsters significant minutes, not Fagioli alone. Miretti Soule Iling Junior Soule Rovella. Plus some more randoms in the CL. Are you saying we don't have any talents as good as any of them, really?
to be honest, quite possibly yes?
Even if you ignore the current crop of youth, Juve historically have been significantly better at creating youth talent than Inter. I wish I knew "why" it was - maybe we scout for the wrong attributes/characteristics in our kids, maybe its our facilities, our development plans. I just dont know, but something about youth at Inter just doesn't work.
I don't really buy into the chances argument either, tbh, because if that was the case some of the guys who leave would "make it", yet even the people who leave (on decent money) such as Bettella, Zappa, Gravillon, etc, dont really make it at a level that would necessarily be useful for Inter. Gnonto or Salvatore Esposito are probably the best talents we've produced since Bonucci/Balotelli, excluding Zaniolo, and its not clear to me yet that they're capable of being a level that would be a squad rotation player at Inter. Aside from Bonucci and Balotelli, our best are probably Biraghi, Dimarco, Benassi, Pinamonti - eg these are all players who have capped for Italy after being an Inter youth development. I'd say of those only Dimarco is really good enough to be at Inter
I think, as discussed elsewhere, the lack of an U-23 will really hit us as well over coming seasons. Right now if we think a player is on the fringe of our first team, we have to make one of two decisions - do they stay at Inter, play as an overaged Primavera player occasionally, and restrict their first team game time likely to maybe 1-2 full matches equivalent over a full season? Or do we send them on a hopeful loan where they hopefully get the chance to play regularly. Zanotti's primavera gametime is 971 minutes this season, often not being in the squad for the primavera because he's in the first team squad.
We really need an U-23 team, so that people can play at a "First team" level, getting competitive minutes every week, and if we find ourselves in a situation where we need a youth RB for whatever reason, we can call them up for the 3-5 matches we need them for. It's working very well for Juve
Of course, that's also only a recent development - historical differences between Inter and Juve for youth production aren't explained by the U-23 team. But I would say are still quite significant.
RE Asllani, I think its also disappointing he's not had more minutes... but. You know, he's only started 7 games for us (brought off at halftime in one of them, which we go on to win), and in the 6 remaining games, we've only won 1 of those? Which was Coppa Italia?
The other thing is - especially with the Plusvalenza pressure in recent years - a lot of the kids we're selling have been aged 18, 19, 20. So if they're good enough to make it elsewhere, they still should be able to. Its not like we're hanging onto kids letting them rot on our bench until they're 23, 24. Yet very few of those guys even go on to have a Serie B level career after leaving... So I think fundamentally, Inter doesn't produce good youngsters, rather than we don't play good youngsters