This evening, Beppe Riso has confirmed the futures of his two young AC Milan clients, Francesco Camarda and Christian Comotto.
In recent weeks, there has been plenty of talk about Comotto and Camarda, with both expected to be part of the Milan pre-season plans. So, their return to Milanello this week was no surprise. Now, the quest begins to impress Ruben Amorim.
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However, their futures have also been in focus.
Indeed, the failure to re-sign Mattia Liberali has brought back old memories and the Rossoneri do not want even bigger regrets in the future, especially with teams sniffing around for their prized assets. As a result, thoughts about the future have been about securing renewals.
Camarda and Comotto will stay
Talks have taken place in the past few days – with Amorim’s position clear and matching the wishes of the club – and Riso, who represents both players, has confirmed that they will stay with the Diavolo for a long time yet, as MilanVibes reports from outside Casa Milan (seen below).
“Camarda and Comotto? Renewals not yet closed, we’ve just sat down. Future at Milan? Yes for both”
Beppe Riso a Casa Milan: “Camarda e Comotto? Rinnovi non ancora chiusi, ci siamo appena seduti. Futuro al Milan? Sì per entrambi”@MilanVibesIT pic.twitter.com/g33SNdY7kK
— Pietro Balzano Prota (@PBPcalcio) July 14, 2026
These together with Torriani in my opinion are the Milan youngsters with most potential. It is interesting that Zeroli was sent to Futuro again and isn’t being considered for the first team yet, unlike Torriani who is already there, and Camarda and Comotto who are being considered for it (although it is more likely that ultimately they will go to a Serie B loan and only join the first team later in their young careers). This assessment the club is making about these youngsters matches what I think, that these three have more potential than Zeroli.
I also think that all four, including Zeroli, have more potential than Liberali. For me, Liberali having chosen Como is good news, good riddance (good luck to him but I don’t think he is Milan material, actually). I think that he is more hype than skill. This has been an opinion of mine that is unpopular here (there is a tendency here to overestimate the skills and potential of young players; I’ve always said, the vast majority of them fail and only a handfull make it to the highest level; people tend to think that because someone is young and has shown some potential, they are God’s gift to football and already sure of fulfilling that potential; for me, that’s completely wrong – potential and its fulfillment are two very different things, as the latter depends on a huge number of factors).
I could be wrong myself about Liberali, but I think that eventually I will be proven right and he will be a decent, somewhat good, but not great player. Torriani, Camarda, Comotto and even Zeroli, I have more hope that they will become great players, eventually.
Why do I think so? Because unlike many posters here, I actually have watched in person and on streaming Futuro games and got familiar with how they play. I have also attended in person pre-season games. I was never highly impressed by Liberali despite a couple of good performances (and a much larger number of disastrous ones).
Camarda: I do understand that he might also be assessed as more hype than skill after he performed so poorly for Lecce. However I see that as a mistake he and his advisors made when they went for the Lecce loan. Lecce is a team that plays to survive in Serie A, with not a lot of ambition beyond that. They play very defensively and don’t really trust young players. They were a very poor match for Camarda who was isolated and rarely received the ball, and didn’t get enough minutes. And then, his season was also marred by injury. I think Camarda is way better than what he was able to show for Lecce, and should do better in a more ambitious and attacking Serie B team, and then should do even better once he is ready to join Milan’s first team for good.
Comotto, I think he has huge raw talent and it looks to me like he will fulfill it (nobody can ever be sure of that but my gut feeling tells me that he is the real deal).
Torriani is set to be one of the best goalkeepers of his generation. His reflexes are fantastic and he is very calm under pressure; very mature kid. His one problem is being too skinny and not very athletic but he will bulk up naturally as he gets older. Torriani’s biggest lack of luck is the fact that he is behind a world class goalkeeper so he isn’t given enough opportunities with the first team, and even the second goalkeeper, Terraciano, is very decent so Torriani remains without minutes. I wouldn’t be surprised if he asked to be sold.
Zeroli is good but never convinced me as being truly outstanding.
And Liberali? Meh. That’s the ultimate hype. He had a disastrous season with Milan Futuro, a serie D team. Then did relatively well in a Serie B team that ultimately failed to win promotion. His decent games for them, in my opinion, are more of a case of “in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” I think Como will realize at some point that they made a mistake and he is not as good as people think he is. Well, I don’t desire it for the kid. I hope I’m wrong and he does great. But I have a feeling that I’m not wrong.
On what basis are you making any assessment of these players?
It’s like judging kids growing up in an orphanage.
Whether or not those kids make it will have very little to do with nurturing.
There is a rumor that Torino and Fiorentina would like to get Comotto on loan, but Amorim is impressed with him and willing to keep him for the first team, without another loan. That matches my feeling that he is really talented. He is a very vertical midfielder, and fast to get the ball to the attack. That pleases Amorim.
Camarda, given his disastrous loan at Lecce, is more likely to be loaned once more, this time to a Serie B team, which is good for him. Comotto has already done that with Spezia, so he may be closer to the first team than Camarda.
No more loan out again, just play him as usual.. just trust the young players. Remember class ’92 from The Fergie babes ?
So the solution to Camarda‘a previously disastrous loan is to send him on another disastrous loan???
Loans rarely if ever work out because:
1. They put the player in an entirely new set up (new teammates, new coach, new tactics, new house, new diet, new training) and each one of those variables impacts their performance which makes it highly unlikely that their performance will improve (which is why most transfers end in failure as in the player performs at a lower level for their new club).
2. When players are loaned multiple times the above happens multiple times.
3. The loanee club doesn’t own the player and so is not invested in their development.
4. The loanee club is often a club that is in a lower league or struggling so the worst possible conditions to send a young player.
5. Loans allow the loanor club to fill the position of the loaned player with other players which means that when they return from their loan there’s no room (especially as they’ve probably also gone backward in their development).
In the past 15 years nearly every youth player who broke into the first team never went on loan.
Gabbia is one of the few and his development was a total fluke. The plan was to force him out (by loaning him to death) but an injury crisis forced the club to recall him from loan.
I’m really at a loss why fans actually want players to go on loan. Every loan should be treated with a protest.
And really the league need to impose restrictions. Loans should be limited to 1 per career for a minimum of 1 year with no recall rights.