AC Milan are planning how their attack for the future will look, and Francesco Camarda’s name continues to hover in the ever-decreasing distance.
Calciomercato.com recall that Camarda scored a hat-trick today during Milan Primavera’s 7-0 win over Virtus Entella today with a penalty kick in the 14th minute, a second in the 21st minute and third in the 31st minute.
At just 15 years old, the striker continues break record after record. A few days ago, he netted a brace in the UEFA Youth League against Newcastle United to become the youngest Italian to score in the European youth competition (15 years and 195 days).
Camarda also marked his debut in the Primavera league with a goal, becoming the first 2008-born player to do so. His numbers are very impressive: 22 goals in 25 games in the Scudetto win with the Under 15s and 22 goals in 18 games with the Under 17s.
With the hat-trick scored against Entella, Camarda became the youngest player to have scored in all three U19 competitions (league, national cup and Youth League), surpassing Youssoufa Moukoko’s record and also beating Ryan Gravenberch, second and third respectively.
The spotlights of Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City have recently shone on him, who remain waiting and follow the boy hoping to be able to step forward to try to snatch him.
However, Milan want to shield him and have a date on the calendar circled in red. Camarda will turn 16 on March 10th, with the Rossoneri management preparing his first professional contract.
This will tie him to the Rossoneri for another three years (maximum allowed by federal regulations). It still seems early for his debut in Serie A, but Camarda is moving forward quickly and the impression is that we will continue to hear about him.
Snap him? They’ll be more than willing to listen to proper offers. Everyone’s for sale nowadays for the right price in this club. Especially if he’s a Primavera product. Capital gainz baby.
We can’t sell him at 16, only offer a new professional contract. We won’t get any gains unfortunately. He can easily sign for a other club at 16 and we’d only get a development fee
He is from milano so im not too worried at the moment but if anyone did achieve to do that id wish them all the worst in this world to fall upon their heads as he could become a mainstay and future legend if he keeps developing. Considering that in the next 5 years will have our own stadium, most likely at least, will mean that we wont be as dependant to sell players as much as now so i have hope for him and us, but yeah technically it could happen.
Yep it’s really the players will at this point
Good thing he isnt miserable like you and actually likes Milan
With all due respect Boulden and i actually do mean it with respect regardless if we havent always agreed upon everything or been on good terms for that matter then Ted has supported ac milan for at least ten years as i known that fella for years from other web sites and even if his opinion doesnt please you then im sure pretty he still wishes milan well.
have you seen his comments? Everything has something negative pinned to it, He is also insinuating here that Man City is better than Milan lmao, is that something a Milan supporter says?????????
not sure what hurt him so much, Milan is doing well, slowly fixing our financial issues and building a good squad
If you want your club to spend 100s of millions and jump to the top then you are supporting the wrong club.
Man city are treble winners so yes i would say currently they are better than every team in the world.Does that mean I support them? No
Sorry to trigger you with my comment. I’ve been around supporting Milan since 90’s. I’ve been active in different blog from 2009 since its establishment. There, we always had constructive discussions, sharing different views.
Every fan can have his opinion. You have every right to express your own view as I have. You don’t like it? Scroll further. Your insecurity is not my problem. Deal with it yourself.
I always give kudos and positive remarks where I think it’s deserved. And I’ve said many times that financial aspect and manouvers from both Elliott and RedBird are on point. I’ve always, for years now, stressed this club needs to build strong foundations to achieve selfsufficiency and longterm sustainability. This management are doing exactly that.
And I will always give negative remark where I feel it’s deserved. It is still my own view and opinion.
So don’t say “go support other club”, when you don’t agree with my comment. That’s really immature and only exposes your insecure character.
Oh, and supporting the club doesn’t mean I have to accept and agree with everything owners decide. Prime example are United and their owners who fans hate with all their guts. But they still support the team. Learn the difference.
It is such a stupid wording that English football fans use for Man City. Obviously, current Man City are far better than Milan or any other club in the world. Why would I say Milan are better than a treble winning city? Not all fans are delusional mate. No one said we want us to spend 100M every window man, who are you even arguing with?
Well as much as it pains me to say it, currently man city is eons ahead of us and has been so for a long time but as i see it his comment was more about his view of the current ownerships selling policy and even though it might be a bleak view its still not overall too far fetched considering we sold tonali this summer, any player could be up in the air if the right offer arrives.
As dismayed i am with tonalis sale i dont share his view to that extent though,
iI dont expect the club to spend hundreds of millions and not even sure ted does that either but obviously i might be wrong on his account.
@Martin I agree with you, you can’t expect the management to spend 100M EVERY window I don’t even know where he get that from. As long as we don’t have our own stadium, we can’t expect high spending. Management took the ruthless approach and sold 1 key player and got 4 new players for that money. It’s a good strategy as long as they don’t do this every season. Talking about @Boulden, it’s not surprising he is targeting someone else’s opinion. He has always been the obnoxious type.
Hilarious seeing Boulden complain about other people’s negativity when literally you don’t offer anything on this site but complain about other people. You literally do not make any points of your own. You literally are here disagreeing with what other people say instead of making your own points. Smh
What a tool
Of course not, I was never up for such spending spree. What I wanted this summer was to put missing puzzles to our side and not complete revamp. Certainly not at the expense of our boy. With already available budget, they could easily buy/loan players we were missing. Pulisic for 25, Romero for free, Retegui for 12, Okafor for 15, Amrabat on loan (United did it) and Reijnders/RLC/Musah for 20. Easily.
I share your view due to our recent cl performance and upturn im improved deals and that we have played for full stadium for 1.5 season it should have been possible without selling tonali even if i question that we could have gotten amrabat as he seemingly had set his sight on either a move to barcelona or utd so i doubt it was that feasible for us to sign him.
He will surely sign a professional contract with Milan and will become a star in the future for the Red and Black
Forza Milan
If Milan intends to keep these players, it is going to require more than contracts, especially since a kid can’t sign for more than 3 years until he turns 18.
There needs to be a clear path into the main side and we need to sort out a loaning arrangement with a Serie B and a Serie A sides to have a continual pipeline of players going in and out. At least initially I think it is going to require Milan to risk a few failures, although I suspect that is not going to happen. I think the potential for failure is getting less and less because the quality of the Primavera has really increased in the last 12 to 18 months. We not talking about the usual level of talent of Colombo, Nasti, Brescianini and their cohort which has been produced by the Primavera (i.e. potential pros that are below the quality Milan wants). We appear to have hit gold with some young Italians (e.g Camarda, Liberali, Bartesaghi and Zeroli) but have also brought in serious talent from overseas (e.g. Stalmach, Cuenca and Simic). The increase in talent will speak for itself by dominating the Primavera league at a generally younger age than its competition (when 1 year at this level is a significant difference), as it is doing.
We can sign a player as a 16 or 17 year old to a professional contract but Dortmund, or even a Dutch side renowned for developing players, will be in a quality player’s ear to shift at the end of the first pro deal. Milan then gets leveraged into selling for peanuts or losing the player for nothing. The player moves because he get the promise of game time, in line with the clear history these other clubs have when it comes to developing players.
We’re not going to become a club that really profits from the Primavera unless we can get the player to 21-23 with a solid body of work behind him. You don’t get that taking whatever you can get with loan options and sitting players on the bench.
In general, Italy has been appalling in recent times at developing its talent. It will require a real shift in mindset.
We’re off to a good start with Bartesaghi. Target all the soft fixtures and give him 20 minutes at the end of the game (assuming we up). Do it with any position we’re resting players or don’t have cover for.
Loans mostly don’t work.
The only youth players to have really made it in the last 15 years were Donnarumma, Calabria, De Sciglio. Locatelli or Cutrone, none of whom went on loan.
My guess is that loans have the following problems:
a) they uproot young players – you wouldn’t randomly transfer a school child during their final year in school so why would you do that to a child the same age who is trying to become an elite athlete?
b) the loan club is not invested in the player;
c) if the loan club is in Italy it probably won’t take any chances with youth;
d) the loan player returns to a new team/system/chaos having generally been forgotten about whilst the club is busy signing 2-3 players per position for ‘depth’; and
e) player is loaned out again another 3-4 times and the same thing happens again; and
f) player who was once in the top 0.000001% of footballers in the country retires or ends up in Serie C.
This explains how clubs in Italy especially have a success rate of less than 1% of converting some of the most talented youth players on the planet into even mid range senior footballers.
And the fans called out for more!
Loans mostly don’t work.
The only youth players to have really made it in the last 15 years were Donnarumma, Calabria, De Sciglio. Locatelli or Cutrone, none of whom went on loan.
My guess is that loans have the following problems:
a) they uproot young players – you wouldn’t randomly transfer a school child during their final year in school so why would you do that to a child the same age who is trying to become an elite athlete?
b) the loan club is not invested in the player;
c) if the loan club is in Italy it probably won’t take any chances with youth;
d) the loan player returns to a new team/system/chaos having generally been forgotten about whilst the club is busy signing 2-3 players per position for ‘depth’; and
e) player is loaned out again another 3-4 times and the same thing happens again; and
f) player who was once in the top 0.000001% of footballers in the country retires or ends up in Serie C.
This explains how clubs in Italy especially have a success rate of less than 1% of converting some of the most talented youth players on the planet into even mid range senior footballers.
And the crowd called out for more.
Spot on bro @bruno
I wish Milan already had De Zerbi as the manager when Camarda turns 18 in 2025.
No we’re not selling him is our future assests so we’re not selling him rather