Diego Sia left AC Milan last month to join CD Mirandes in the Spanish second division, and it will be hoped that he can go to the next level.
The Milan Futuro is good until players reach a certain level. At that point, it is crucial that they take another step by departing on loan. Kevin Zeroli and Francesco Camarda have both taken that step and Sia is one of the latest to do so.
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In the Spanish second division, he should mature further, both as a player and as a man, given he is still so young. At 19, he has only known Milanello and the Rossoneri, so it will be a big chance for him to take the next step.
Sia’s first words
In six months, who knows what can happen, he may come back with aspirations of higher. However, the focus now is on impressing for his new club, and he spoke to AS about the move, via MilanPress.
“I’ve always been at AC Milan. It won’t be easy at first, but my teammates are helping me integrate. I’m very happy to be in this city and I hope to reciprocate the warm welcome from the fans. The process was complicated, but everything went well, and I’m happy to begin this new adventure.
“I’m a player who adapts well to any position. I can bring freshness, quality, and goals.”
Milan are being forced to come to the realization that playing in the 4th tier for a project that offers pretty much no hope of a future in the 1st team is not an appealing prospect to talented young prospects. There’s a reason they keep choosing to play elsewhere the moment an offer to do so comes in
Its a straight up loan and his contract with us lasts until 2028 and besides of that Sia will turn 20 in March.
Quick defend a failing youth system!
No but you doesn’t seem to realize that is basically how it goes in all clubs around the world and you even sometimes comes up with ridiculous complaints about our youth players ending up playing for 20 clubs in their careers and still you believe that they would cut it for us. You perfectly well knows that I would love to see both more homegrown and Italian players in AC Milan but you completely disregard the fact that you want to run clubs like kindergartens. These fluctuations of in and outgoing players has ALWAYS happened period and I even mentioned that the player is nearly 20 and fully retains him so why wouldn’t a loan be good for him, why don’t you climb down your high horse as you are starting to sound like a broken record.
Saying “that’s just the way it is” isn’t exactly going to change things.
Sorry say “that’s the way it is and I’ll defend it to the hilt” is definitely not going to change things.
And why anyone believes that elite athletes can change teams, coaches, training regimes, diets every few months is beyond me.
Trying doing it with a race horse and see how well they do.
Why wouldn’t a loan be good for him?
Because it hasn’t worked for a single player to break into the team in the last 10 years!
Bartesaghi is another example of a player who broke into the first team without going on loan.
Abate and Antonini were the last to break into after a series of loans.
(Gabbia doesn’t count because his Villarreal loan was supposed to end his Milan career and they were forced to take him back due to an injury crisis (and it still took them another 3 years to trust him!).
No but you make it sound like its an AC Milan problem and its all you keep talking about over and over again while also disregarding that players also can stunt their development by staying. Then there is the question if players are professional enough and so on with various parameters, By the very definition that we have youth teams that will have annual promotions every single year due to age you complaints gets comical.
Abate and Antonini was co-owned by other clubs so basically they were out on loans for several years before their real breakthroughs.
I always spoke well of Gabbia but just because it doesn’t fit your narative either as I would say he has always been a pretty good player and some will say the loan did the difference.
It’s not a “Milan problem”, it’s a “modern football problem” especially “Serie A Problem” and for Milan to return to the top they need to get off the conveyor belt.
When Milan were top they had a core of players.
They haven’t had one in 20 years and the last time it looked like they might just have broken the cycle the management decided to dismantle a Scudetto winning side (to cries of “those Scudetto winners aren’t good enough to win Scudetti – it was a FLUKE”).
Milan have need through about 20 players on Cristante’s position since he was forced out.
It’s the same in nearly every area of the pitch.
Calabria provided stability at one point but that had to end.
This is not how things should be done.
But the worst part is the fans support it and call for more.
You are so full of it as you very well knows that I’ve always been calling for consistency and development of homegrown talents but you also gotta realize that the majority of players simply are bound to fail as not everyone will be able to cut it. That’s a simple fact whether you like it or not and the bar is even lower set than when Milan was the powerhouse we loved it for as we had a stronger team even more players failed.
Let’s face it none of these players have a hope.
They’re all going to become journeymen with more jobs by the age of 25 than the average bar worker.