CM: ‘Compared to Sandro Tonali’ – Fonseca keeping an eye on Stalmach

Five Milan Futuro players have been called up by Paulo Fonseca for tonight’s game against Genoa, and Dariusz Stalmach is someone to keep an eye on even if he is not among them.

As Calciomercato.com write, Mattia Liberali and Alex Jimenez are expected to start tonight while Davide Bartesaghi, Silvano Vos and Francesco Camarda have also been summoned Fonseca, with the hopes that the Futuro project is doing them well.

Then there is Stalmach, who was already a protagonist in the Polish top flight when he was just 16. Milan signed him from Gornik Zabzre and after an excellent start with the Rossoneri Primavera – especially in the UEFA Youth League – he had lost his way a bit.

The Pole was not initially part of the Milan Futuro squad and thus remained in the Primavera but with a different spirit. He began to be more decisive, to take on responsibilities and to make a difference together with his close friend Maximilian Ibrahimovic.

Stalmach’s growth was immediately rewarded by Daniele Bonera who decided to bring him back into the fold, and he repaid this faith with a goal in the recent away match against Campobasso. Now, Fonseca is also studying him for the First team because he has all the credentials to play for Milan.

He is a dynamic midfielder who has quality and works hard, he is most natural as a mezzala in a three-man midfield and he makes good attacking runs into the box. In terms of characteristics, there are those who have ‘compared him to Sandro Tonali’.

High praise, even if there is plenty of work to do. Stalmach and Milan will go one step at a time because everyone develops at their own rate, but Liberali and Jimenez starting tonight would show that age is irrelevant if the talent is there.