Milan Futuro are the squad that has by far the biggest combined market value out of all the teams that will compete in Serie C, dwarfing the worth of both Atalanta U23 and Juventus Next Gen.
Milan’s U23 team project officially came to fruition in July after months of planning, and it will feature a number of talents that the management hope will quickly make the jump to the first team after testing themselves against senior professionals.
Daniele Bonera’s side are in Girone B (Group B) of the Italian third tier and all the players have a total market value of €32.53m, according to Transfermarkt. To put it in perspective, Ternana are second with €5.68m, with Virtus Entella the only other club topping €5m.
How is this value comprised? They have Francesco Camarda as a €10m player and Alex Jimenez as €4m, while Davide Bartesahi, Chaka Traore, Kevin Zeroli and Marco Nasti are all over €1m.
Divock Origi (€5m) and Fode Ballo-Toure (€3m) are listed which inflates the total, but then players like Matt Liberali, Max Ibrahimovic and Vittorio Magni have not been assigned a value.
To offer another comparison, Juventus Next Gen’s total market value is €15.09m and they are in Group C, while Atalanta U23 come in at €13.38m.
To be fair, Juventus sold off some of their best up and coming players to fund their overhaul this summer.
I also read the team value before the market open, if i’m not mistaken both juve next gen and atalanta has 20 mio more value, but with 8-10 more players than our futuro, so it’s still fair even before the overhaul
i get this before is story, we are talking about the present
Soule and Huijsen were Serie A players last season, not players from Juve’s Serie C squad.
Well we are just starting with it.
The debate in serie c YouTube channels is quite interesting tho. Many disagree with serie a junior teams playing in the division.
Why?
Interesting, why?
curious but why? in spain they have been doing so for decades…
So do I, it’s a horrible thing for the league structure.
I think Milan have to do it, because otherwise they’ll be left behind, but the U23 teams being forced into the league instead of genuine provincial clubs is another sign that the bigger clubs have too much power. Unfortunately, it’s not going back though, just getting concentrated into smaller and smaller pools at the top.
At the very least, the U23 teams should be forced to play in the same towns as the teams they replace in the league structure.