That's such bullshit tbh. The fans are more forgiving towards younger players. See Gabigol when he played, Karamoh, Miangue when he got some starts, even in past with Obi, Coutinho, surely more youth players...
We all were eager to see Pinnamonti get some minutes last season. Yes, some don't have or had the talent to break through. But 'useful' players like Benassi, Duncan, Zaniolo, ... get shipped off way too easily.
How many promising youngsters have/had to leave in order for shit like Vecino, Mudingayi, Kuzmanovic, ....
For me the issue isn't so much favoring 'experience' over 'youth'. The issue is far simpler then that and it is that we don't know how to spend our money effectively. It is simply a matter of Player A vs Player B and making the wrong choice so frequently and wasting time, money and losing a useful player as a result. (Not always of course, but too often).
Look at someone like Vidic vs Rolando. Rolando was cheaper and infinitely better than Vidic was here at Inter. The only thing that Vidic had going for him was his past reputation and name value but anyone who watched him clearly saw a massive decline in his last 2 years at Man Utd. This is the same club that had no problem keeping, and getting good use out of, the likes of Neville, Ferdinand, Scholes and Giggs, who played at Man Utd until they were 36, 36, 39 and fucking 40 years old respectively. There's a reason they let their captain Vidic go for free at the 'young' age (for a defender) of 33 - it's because he was fucking finished.
We failed to see that, and chose Vidic, paying a huge amount for his wages and let Rolando go in the process. I've said it time and fucking time again but I don't give a fucking cunts shit about what Rolando did or didn't do after leaving Inter. The only thing that matters is that in his one season here, he surprised everyone with his very solid performances, even scoring 4 goals. Of course, we chose not to spend the €5m to redeem him and instead brought in Vidic in on a 'free' transfer with massive wages.
Instead of redeeming Ljajic, who was cheap and largely excellent, we spent more money on an older, worse player in Eder. Taider/Poli/Obi/Benassi were hardly world-class, but they were solid when they did seldom play and they were overlooked for the likes of Palombo, Kuzmanovic, Melo, Medel and Kondogbia - players who have all gone down in the clubs history as notoriously shit transfers. You remember Coutinho vs Kharja? I could go on and on. It is a severe problem when you look at the clubs most expensive signings and the list is filled with names like Joao Mario, Kondogbia, Quaresma, Vecino and Gabigol.
That is the problem. Every club in the world has transfer busts and expensive flops. But Inter is unique for our renowned history of picking shit players instead of good players, young or old, loaned or bought, transfer target A or transfer target B. Whether it's buying Alvarez instead of Vidal for the same price or whether it's not redeeming Ljajic and instead buying fucking Eder, we need to improve in the most basic of transfer deals - picking the right player. Having had practically zero club philosophy or stability is an
enormous problem in our lack of long-term planning both on and off the pitch.
Like I said it isn't an issue of youth vs experience. It's simply buying A when we should've bought B. I see them as two sides to the same coin. I'm surprisingly indifferent about Zaniolo, and Nainggolan for that matter. Maybe I'm just bored of this story to be irritated by it this time. I'm sure a fantastic midfield prospect will pop up in the next season or two but we'll play Vecino over him every day of the week. We'll follow that up by picking up some cheap, young unknown LB from France on loan with a €3m option who will blow us all out of the fucking water with his world class performances but we won't redeem him and keep rotating the donkey duo of Asamoah/Dalbert. My soul is ready.
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