I expect that when, just today, MM has spoken about how great our youth team is and how our youth project is going to be the driving force for Inters future, we should be expecting results better than this, or seeing people like Biraghi and Natalino unable to get into mediocre Serie B sides.
These arent just random guys from the youth team, remember, these are meant to be the 'hot prospects', this is from our Viareggio winning cup, we'd already given Natalino a couple of Serie A games, Biraghi was so close to the first team fringe - either we say, okay, we got it wrong, these guys are nowhere near good enough for what we wanted, or they've fucked up in the mean time.
Either way, bad situation.
edit;
My point is, for how great Moratti makes our youth team sound, they are sure fucking disappointing compared to expectations. Poor football, mediocre results, and poor big match performances from the so-called 'stars' of the youth team. For how great he makes them sound we should be doing better than the best 16 round in the Viareggio cup which includes people like Serie D representatives....
Let's look at the youngsters (20 and under) from the 2007-08 Barcelona B squad that won promotion:
Marc Valiente - Starter for Real Valladolid (Segunda)
Sergio Busquets - Starter for Barcelona (La Liga)
Iago Falqué - Failed at Villarreal B, Failed at Tottenham, now not being used at Southampton (Championship)
Thiago Alcántara - Regular for Barcelona (La Liga)
Toríbio - Haven't seen him play at all this season, no idea what happened to him
Víctor Sánchez - Regular for Neuchâtel Xamax (Swiss Super League)
Víctor Vázquez - Starter for Club Brugge (Juliper)
Gai Assulin - I think he joined Man City a couple years ago, but I haven't heard anything about him recently
Giovani Dos Santos - Barely plays for Tottenham (EPL)
Jeffrén - Barely plays for Sporting (Primeira)
Pedro - Regular for Barcelona (La Liga)
And compare it to our 2006-07 Primavera squad that won the title:
Tornaghi Paolo - 4th string goalie for Inter
Belec Vid - Starter for Crotone (Serie B)
Ciceri Davide - Not sure where this kid is now
Fais Davide - Not sure where this kid is now
Fautario Simone - Regular for Frosinone (Lega Pro 1)
Bonucci Leonardo - Starter for Juventus (Serie A)
Esposito Dennis - Bench player for Lecco (Lega Pro 2)
Conrotto Giorgio - Starter for Canavese (Lega Pro 2) before the team dissolved this year
Mei Andrea - Bench player for VVV-Venlo (Eredivisie)
Figliomeni Giuseppe - Regular for Varese (Serie B) and now a starter for Nocerina (Serie B)
Marconi Ivan - Starter for Savona (Lega Pro 2)
Bolzoni Francesco - Regular for Siena (Serie A)
Maa Boumsong Daniel - No idea where this kid is now
Maaroufi Ibrahim - Bench player for Damash Gilan (Iran Pro)
Puccio Gabriele - Starter for Pavia (Lega Pro 2)
Pedrelli Daniele - Bench player for Spezia (Lega Pro 1)
Siligardi Luca - Regular for Livorno (Serie B)
Filkor Attila - Starter for Livorno (Serie B)
Litteri Gianluca - Starter for Ternana (Lega Pro 1)
Ribas Sebastian - Barely plays for Sporting (Premeira)
Cocchiere Ignazio - No idea where this kid is now
Biabiany Jonathan Ludovic - Starter for Parma (Serie A)
Slavkovski Goran - Bench player for Limhamn Bunkeflo (Sweden Division 1)
Balotelli Mario - Regular for Manchester City (EPL)
No doubt, the better players came out of the Barcelona squad, but look how many we had from our Primavera. That Barcelona squad included 4 players that now play significant minutes in the top 2 leagues of England, Spain, Italy, or Germany. Our Primavera squad included 8 players that now contribute significant minutes in those leagues and this team didn't even include Santon.
Barcelona has Thiago, Busquets and Pedro, but if we kept our players then we would still have Balotelli and Santon. Maybe not as string as those 3, but still very solid players that came through our system.
We may not be producing Messi's, Xavi's or Iniesta's, but we are producing some talented players. It just seems like we get rid of some of the better ones before we properly groom them into solid players.