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Chelsea midfielder Cesare Casadei is edging closer to joining Championship side Reading on loan for the rest of the season
 
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I don't overly care about this, I think most teams (especially in Serie A) snap your hand off if you offer 15m for a youth player who's never even seen a Serie A pitch.
 
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Sadly he looks like the real deal
He was by no means the first talent we allowed to leave that blossomed elsewhere and he will not be the last.

If Inter refuse to give them a go, we will never know until they pull on the jersey of another team and show what they have got.
 
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Weird you didn't trash the quality of the Championship :lol:
No need to comment on the hoof-ball league. Attending those games was always a surreal yet fun thing to do.

Quality is shit but there's high competitiveness.
 

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He's been playing for reading in the championship since January. Reading are third bottom and they've won one game since he arrived. I haven't watched the matches obviously, just checking online. Certainly not inter standard this season anyway. He seems to start and play 90 minutes every week anyway so they just like him at least, though doesn't say much for a team about to be relegated to league 1
 

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he's had more red cards this year than gags has, and he's playing at a 2nd level team that hasnt won a single game since March.
 

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A normal club would have given him all of Gags minutes this year
serie a teams and under 20-20 s players chances for play as a starter are rarest thing happen.
 

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How many senior level games Casadei had played before this season? Suggesting he could have replaced Gagliardini at Inter is simply laughable.
 
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if we use Juventus with their U23 team as an example, look at how they've integrated Fagioli as a good example - 2 seasons at Serie C level, 1 season Serie B level, now ready for first team (albeit still kind of forced because of midfield issues)

Gatti? similar journey. Serie C, Serie B, Serie A

Enzo? Serie C 2 seasons, the last as the starter and squad for Serie A

Miretti - Serie C starter one season with squad role in Serie A, now Serie A regular



You gotta give these boys game time against men and let them show their qualities before you just jump them into a top team's first team. This is why I'm massively in favour of loans - as long as the loans are to the right places where they'll actually start regularly (which is something Inter seems to consistently fuck up)

This is also why I'm in favour of us developing a U23 team - if we have that, we can have squad players available to us while still having them developing at a decent level with regular game time.


The 'romantic' youth team -> first team is so damn rare (Eg Donnarumma) that you're basically looking at once a generation for a top club like Inter/Juve/Milan/etc - because you either need to be good enough to be in the squad getting regular (unforced) gametime, or you need to have lucky circumstances that you can play for 10 games or so straight (eg if we had Correa, Dzeko, and Lautaro out for a long period of time, Carboni would probably be starting some of these games)

It's much easier to do it at a smaller club where you get time and patience to break through, and you can learn and, tbh, the talent level is lower so on sheer talent its easier to stand out. Thats why Bastoni, Barella, many of these guys are developed in lower Serie A/B teams before coming to a big club.


There's nothing that would make me happier than seeing a starting XI full of Inter developed youth, all justified by talent to be there - but we wont get there by either putting too much pressure on their shoulders and not providing the right support, or having them play maybe 5-7 games with 10 minutes a game a season like Valentin Carboni has this year (6 senior appearances for a total of 34 minutes is just a waste of everyone's time, tbh)
 
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if we use Juventus with their U23 team as an example, look at how they've integrated Fagioli as a good example - 2 seasons at Serie C level, 1 season Serie B level, now ready for first team (albeit still kind of forced because of midfield issues)

Gatti? similar journey. Serie C, Serie B, Serie A

Enzo? Serie C 2 seasons, the last as the starter and squad for Serie A

Miretti - Serie C starter one season with squad role in Serie A, now Serie A regular



You gotta give these boys game time against men and let them show their qualities before you just jump them into a top team's first team. This is why I'm massively in favour of loans - as long as the loans are to the right places where they'll actually start regularly (which is something Inter seems to consistently fuck up)

This is also why I'm in favour of us developing a U23 team - if we have that, we can have squad players available to us while still having them developing at a decent level with regular game time.
Great post.

We're doing this with for example Giovanni Fabbian now. He's a regular at Reggina, playing 90 mins constantly, he's almost like a default starter for Pippo there, at the age of 20, against men. These are the players who SHOULD have the credentials to take a spot at Inter squad. Not Casadeis who had dominated only against kids before this season (dunno has he dominated at Chelsea / Reading this season).

We tried to do this with many players. Seba Esposito, Mulattieri, Stankovic, Oristanio.

- Esposito has fucked up a lot but at least he's been playing at Bari since Jan 2023, scoring 4+2 now.
- Mulattieri went to Volendam, then Crotone and now scored nicely at Frosinonen at B when they earned Serie A spot by winning the league
- Stankovic and Oristanio are in the Volendam route, playing in Eredivisie this season

One guy who's also promising is Franco Carboni
- he went to Cagliari on loan, played there a bit, not regularly at all so he was called back. In 2023 Jan he was loaned to Monza and hasn't played much. I don't know the background of this move, why it was made but he hasn't played much. Maybe he was acquired as a backup for Carlos Augusto but the Brazilian hasn't missed a step, he's been playing almost all the minutes on the left flank. So this loan wasn't super effective for Carboni in terms of playing time but hopefully his time will come. And maybe he has learnt a thing or two in that Monza team, maybe even from Carlos Augusto.

Next in line we have Valentin Carboni, Francesco Pio Esposito and Mattia Zanotti to name a few:
- dunno will Valentin stay at Inter as he's not gonna get minutes here most probably. A loan to a team which guarantees him playing time would be the absolute best option IMO
- youngest Esposito and Zanotti should be loaned out aswell to tip their toes to senior level football
 
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