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