If a young player chooses to leave the AC Milan project, it is he who loses more than the AC Milan club.
by Max Bambara -
Renato Sanches’s official status at PSG has reopened ancient controversies, which have never completely subsided. For a certain part of the Rossoneri supporters, one of the limits of current AC Milan lies in never wanting to take a step slightly longer than their own leg, neither in terms of recognition of the players' fees, nor from the point of view of the financial effort to win the tag.
But is it really so?
First of all, we must start from the assumption that, in the latter case, Sanches would probably have chosen to play in Paris anyway, given that in the French capital they work as coach Galtier and as manager Campos, two gentlemen to whom the French midfielder is very attached. Outside of this situation, however, it would be good to understand how player auctions are never convenient for participating clubs. They can be, economically, for players who see the possibility of snatching a more profitable contract, even if the prospect remains short-sighted, given that the choices made only on the altar of the god of money almost always turn out to be not very protective from the point of view of the profession. . AC Milan is a master in this. Think about Sensi. He almost looked like a Milan player in the summer of 2019, then the Inter blitz took him to the other side of the Navigli where the boy never managed to find continuity, battered by injuries and discontinuity. Today Sensi tries to relaunch in Monza, a newly promoted one, after a really negative three years from the point of view of performance.
Then there is the Todibo case. He should have come to Milan in the winter of 2020, but in the end the clubs did not find an agreement and the player did not push too hard to dress the Rossoneri. From that moment on, Todibo's career entered a sort of shadowy cone. After a series of bad loans, the boy seems to have found a minimum of stability at Nice, but the levels of returns of three years ago are very far away. Almost worse has gone to Kabak. Milan did not take him between 2020 and 2021 because the requests were too high for the Rossoneri club. Liverpool were thrown in, but the experience was extremely negative with the player being swept away by an environment larger than his size. This summer the boy left Hoffenheim again, but he is now in all respects a player to be recovered. The Simakan case is in the same vein. He too seemed to be about to reach Milan, but then the affair remained a dead letter and Milan fell back on Tomori. The career trajectories of the two players were opposite. Today Tomori is one of the strongest center-backs in Serie A, while the good Simakan plays in Leipzig without stealing too much attention from the fans. Finally, the case of Kaio Jorge is emblematic. Last summer seemed a step away from Milan but then Juventus offered more in the famous game of commissions. Today the boy, also thanks to an injury, has completely disappeared from the radar and is never even included in the Juventus squad. What do all these examples teach us? That today, if a young player has qualities and does not come to play for Milan, it is he who loses us in the first place, not the club which, on the other hand, is able to offer a serious and extremely credible project from a technical point of view, within the which the qualities of a young player can emerge because there is a healthy football context, in which the error is taken as a moment of growth and not as an indelible mark of inadequacy. So be careful to think with the old stereotypes of football of 20 years ago, according to which not taking a player was then a shame for which to be ashamed. Today's football must be judged with different analyzes and with a much more detailed ability to weigh situations.
