AC Milan are planning how the attacking department will look in the future and Francesco Camarda’s name is one that is expected to rise through the ranks, a report claims.
This morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes that Camarda is continuing his ‘education’ in youth football, having risen quickly through the various age groups to now find himself in the Primavera.
He scored an overhead kick in the UEFA Youth League against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday, a goal that was stylistically even more beautiful than Rafael Leao’s moving him to three goals in three games in the youth equivalent of the Champions League.
Camarda is regarded as a generational talent and he is being watch with interest by pretty much all the top clubs around Europe, but the Rossoneri have a plan.
Once he turns 16, which is next March, they will be able to have him sign his first professional contract, with a maximum deadline of 2027. Only 18+ players can sign agreements that exceed three years.
There’s no plan.
Nobody should be getting their hopes up.
There is zero chance in the club having the required discipline to give this player the space to grow into.
Zero.
We are guaranteed to sign at least one new striker every single season.
The media and fans demand it.
A new striker is like changing underpants. It’s just something you do every few months.
Ok I’ve gone back through every season to 03/04 and I’ve gave up.
Let’s say Kaka isn’t a striker.
We’ve signed at least one striker every single season since 03/04. Every single season for 20 seasons we have signed at least one new striker.
04/05 Crespo
05/06 Gilardino + Amoroso
06/07 Ronaldo
07/08 Pato
08/09 Ronaldinho + Shevchenko
09/10 Huntelaar
10/11 Ibra + Robinho + Cassano
11/12 El Shaarawy
12/13 Balotelli + Pazzini
13/14 Matri
14/15 Ménez (who played as a CF for us) + Torres
15/16 Balotelli + Bacca + Luiz Adriano
16/17 Lapadula
17/18 Silva and Kalinic
18/19 Higuaín + Piątek
19/20 Ibra
20/21Mandžukić
21/22 Pellegri + Giroud
22/23 Origi
23/24 Okafor + Jovic
And that’s just major signings. There’s been the same number of youth players in that period.
And there are no sign of it stopping.
We’ll probably sign another striker in January. Our third striker this season.
We have about (if you can keep track) 9 senior strikers on our books:
– Colombo
– CDK
– Origi
– Giroud
– Okafor
– Jovic
– Lazetić
– Roback
In 20 years we’ve never found one long term solution to our striker position (or most positions). Not even long term. A short to medium term solution.
That’s a lot of changing one’s mind. And changing one’s allegiance. And, well, change.
Imagine a business appointing at least one new sales director every single year.
Would anyone think that business was well run?
Because management didn’t want to buy expensive strikers, and if they did, they will sell them if good price compared to performance comes to them.
Interesting to see them all listed out like that.
i don’t see it as bad as you do. I think you have to keep in consideration that Sheva and pippo were very successful and already owned, also 7 or 8 of that list were fairly successful even if they weren’t there for long.
in more recent years, there has been a disruptive changes in ownership and coaches which often drives market activity.
What is clear that we have struggled to establish the type of long term 20 goal striker since pippo, sheva but these guys are rarer than diamonds and we don’t eat at the top table for a long time now.
if you looked at many other clubs i blelieve you can see a similar pattern of activty and struggle.
Must be tough for you. It’s a testament to your stamina as a fan, having to endure all these striker transfers. I bet if you went back another 20 years you’d find that we’ve done the same since Berlusconi took over.
If we’d only had 4 strikers over that 40 year period, we would have won so much more. We might have had more scudettos than Juve and more CLs than Madrid, two teams who basically never buy new players. S/
I assume you’re being sarcastic but in that period our competitors held onto strikers for extended periods.
Benzema played for Real Madrid for 14 years!
Messi at Barca.
Ronaldo at Real.
Lewandowski at Bayern,.
Even the likes of Icardi at Inter.
During this period we even provided strikers to Juve to help them win Scudetti. Our former youth players, Matri and Borriello, both helped Juve win Scudetti.
So, yes, it was tough for me and most fans watching Juve win back to back Scudetti with a consistent line up whilst we kept changing our minds.
And then when we win the Scudetto finally – we change our minds again.
“In 20 years we’ve never found one long term solution to our striker position”
I’m sorry I often agree with you but this is bull cra^p
Shevchenko for one played 7 years, the majority of his career, won the balon d’or.
You telling me he wasn’t a succesful long term solution?
That’s just an insult to the great man
That was before 03/04…..
If I had to guess it started spiralling out of control around the time we sold Ibra.
That’s when the volumes and frequency increased.
Never hurts to have many strikers.
Origi, CDK, Roback, Lazetic are pretty hopeless anyway.
Well that’s one side of it. But a good striker needs a backup striker. The problem is a good backup wants to be the man and usually goes elsewhere. Can’t have it both ways. Also you’re missing how long each striker stayed in the role..Sheva was here for us for a long time. It’s not like other clubs dont have turnover in the striker department. It’s a fact of football
Here’s the same list but for Inter. I’m sure it’s the same for any big club anywhere
Inter
04/05 – Pandev, Pinilla
05/06 – Figo, Ventola, Aquafresca
06/07 – Ibra, Crespo, Biabany
07/08 – Suazo
08/09 – Adriano, Quaresma, Mancini, Crespo
09/10 – milito, Eto’o
10/11 – Pazzini, Livaja
11/12 – Forlan, Zarate, Castaignos
12/13 – Palacio, Cassano
13/14 – Icardi, Belfodil
14/15 – Podolski, Osvaldo
15/16 – Jovetic, Eder
16/17 – Barbosa, Caprari
17/18 – Karamoh
18/19 – Latauro,.Balde, Politano
19/20 – Lukaku, Sanchez, Saicedo
20/21 – Pinamonti
21/22 – Dzeko
22/23 – Correa
23/24 – Thuram, Arnautovic
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I usually make the point that football generally is a farce and Inter have been as mismanaged in that period and have the few titles to show for it.
If you want to look at well run clubs there’s probably only a handful.
Juve built their success off the back of Buffon and the BBC CBs.
Real had the likes of Ramos, Madrid, Ronaldo and Benzema at the club for decades.
Same with Barca and Bayern.
And they have the titles to show for it.
Had some of the Real or Bayern players been turned into journeymen like most modern players they wouldn’t have reached the levels they reached.
Certainly someone like Bonucci couldn’t have found success if he had constantly moved around as shown by his short stint at Milan.
I’m really not sure why fans are defending this madness.
People get extremely upset with me when I criticise the state of modern football and the damage that is being done by the excessive number of transfers across the leagues including at Milan.
Do you understand why? Most of those purchases, especially later ones, were buying players on the cheap, aka other peoples garbage.
Do you understand why this didn’t happen with ManCity & Haaland? Because they bought a world class player and are paying him a world class salary.
Now, ManCity doesn’t have to worry about buying someone until he wants to leave.
If Milan spends money for a top player, they won’t need to buy a new forward every year.
By the way, the list in your post also assumes all wingers are forwards, so you’re lumping the entire front line, not just the striker or goal scorers. Nice way to pad your list, lol.
We spent over 1 billion Euros in 10 years…so yeah great money saving exercise that was.
We could have had Aubameyang for FREE playing for us for about 15 years of those 20 but instead we just kept signing more and more CFs.
Anyway I hope I’m wrong but if Camarda doesn’t make it then this will be the reason. He’ll find himself loaned out to death or behind 3 or 4 other players in the first team squad getting a handful of minutes and we’ll all be scratching our heads wondering what might have been.
I feel like your being very negative.
Having Colombo and Camarda on the books is great for us and very exciting.
They will have ample opportunity when ready, mostly due to the fact we can’t compete financially for top strikers.
Also I’d recommend changing your underpants more regularly, that’s just unsanitary. You would probably feel a lot more positive with a comfortable clean pair of pants!
I wonder why I’m being negative about a team and a league that has a less than 1% success rate in converting youth players to senior players……