For Lorenzo Colombo, it has been a difficult few seasons. He has not had a permanent home, and he has never reached the levels AC Milan have required for him to stay. Now, it seems he may be about to take the next step in his career.
Evaluating the past and future of Colombo is a difficult task. In some regards, you can argue that he has lacked the trust of teams to make him their primary striker, which may have hurt his career. However, that can be countered by his goal record.
Looking at his past two seasons in Serie A, he has scored nine goals and made three assists, and whilst he has made plenty of appearances, his minutes have been questionable.
Last season for Monza, he played 25 games, starting 16 of them, but he only averaged 55 minutes per game, and whilst you can argue that perhaps he needs more exposure to minutes, his goal record makes that difficult to do.
With his lack of goals, you must then look to the future. It is a well-known fact that Milan are looking to sign at least one striker this summer, but two seems like a more likely number, but Colombo is not being considered.
It is expected he will once again leave the club – perhaps as early as next week – this time to Empoli, where he is ‘willing and eager’ for a move to happen, and a transfer is seemingly ‘imminent’, according to reports from Pianeta Empoli (via Radio Rossonera).
Whether it will be a dry loan remains to be seen, and the report suggests a buy-clause could be included in the deal, but the figure would be high.
Maybe if we had some faith in him and gave him a chance in the 1st team to learn, rather than shipping him out to relegation teams all the time. We don’t know what he would be like with quality service, because we have never tried. Like with all our young Italians, we never have faith and would rather criticise and ostracise them.
Shame, if he was a foreigner we would love him.
Oh get real, he is not good enough. It doesn’t matter what passport he holds, he will never be good enough. And shut up with the not given a chance. Monza, a clear mid-table team gave him plenty of chances, and like always he failed.
The first team is not a place to learn, it’s for those already good enough to play.
How do you know he’s not good enough?
He played for Milan’s youth team and broke into the first team which puts him in the top 1% of footballers of his generation in Italy and possibly the world.
Having made it that far it all went of pot. Again.
What goes wrong for these players that NONE of them transition from being top youth players to top senior players?
My guess is that these loans are far too disruptive. In fact none of the youth players who became established in the Milan first team ever went on loan: Donnarumma, De Sciglio, Calabria, Locatelli and Cutrone.
It seems to have sort of worked for Gabbia but that was more a case of him refinding his confidence and form because Milan were forced to play him in an injury crisis.
In fact injuries seem to be the main opportunity for youth players. Calabria would’ve been finished at Milan had Conti not got injured.
I’ve no idea why people believe that elite athletes can reach their potential by changing clubs, coaches and team mates every few months.
What other sport does this?
Have you seen him play? He’s unbearably slow. His only quality is a strong shot. He has no qualities in other areas.
Yeah look at Giroud. He had a terrible career being a slow striker.
I know speed is important in computer games…
I will like to see more of Nasti in the first team rather then Colombo… Nasti style of play and attack remind me of Menez
Milan should sell him, he is italian. Modern milan need foreign.