Rebuilding The Azzurri for Euro 2024 and beyond

De Zerbi and Dionisi have had a pretty good track record developing talent thus far. I'm not sold on Moyes teaching him anything new. Maybe the competition and environment will help him grow on his own. We'll find out. Milan should have let Ibrahimovic go and Scamacca could have been useful as a challenge to Giroud. Ibra gets to call the shots on him leaving, and Maldini wasn't going to force retirement on a legend like him.

 

I'm hoping Bastoni doesn't continue to tail off (he had a poor 2022 so far in my opinion), and Gatti/Scalvini give us enough youthful depth at CB for the next 4 years.

Goalkeeping could be an issue. We need alternatives to Sleeparumma. The Germans have had alternatives for years...we should strive to be in the same position. More ready goalkeepers doesn't hurt a national team at all.

 

Unfortunately Meret was a total bust at the highest level and promising talents like Plizarri from a few years ago have not made the jump. Hopefully Carnesecchi can get over his injury and play at the Serie A level, he was all set for Lazio then got injured.

For backups i like Golini at Fiorentina who will play in Europe as well as Vicario from Empoli who was to me the most impressive goaltender i saw in Seri A last year. The guy single handedly kept them in games at times

 

Good to see Pinamonti on the verge of leaving Inter. Way too talented...should be playing for a big four Italian club every game, but big four Italian clubs have the interest equivalent of a teenage girl when it comes to developing Italian players and giving them experience.

 

Berardi renewed. He's there forever

 

Luca Pellegrini on the way to Frankfurt. His Azzurri career has ended before it even started. No way Mancini or any other Italian coach will track his progress...way too lazy are Italian coaches when it comes to scouting outside Italia. Just look at Grifo...should have been a fixture on the national team by now. Easily one of the best players in the Bundesliga and Mancini acts like he doesn't know who he is. Oh well.

 

Was reading through the Gazzetta website and their "probabili formazioni".

Here is the list of what Italians they expect to start this weeks opening Serie A.

Don Berlusconi has to save us single handedly maybe.

Milan - 1 (Calabria)
Udinese - 2 (Udogie, Silvestri)
Sampdoria - 4 (Audero, Augello, Ferrari, Caputo)
Atalanta - 2 (Okoli, Toloi)
Lecce - 4 (Falcone, Baschirotto, Gallo, Di Francesco)
Inter - 2 (Bastoni, Barella)
Monza - 8 (Cragno, A. Ranocchi, Birindelli, F. Ranocchia, Barberis, Valoti, D'Alessandro, Caprari).
Torino - 1 (Ricci)
Fiorentina - 4 (Terraciano, Biraghi, Bonaventura, Sottil)
Cremonese - 5 (Sernicola, Ghiglione, Castagnetti, Valeri, Zanimacchia)
Lazio - 5 (Lazzari, Romagnoli, Cataldi, Immobile, Zacagni)
Bologna - 4 (Bonifazi, De Silvestri, Soriano, Sansone)
Salernitana - 6 (Sepe, Pirola, Candreva, Capezzi, Mazzocchi, Bonazzoli)
Roma - 3 (Mancini, Pellegrini, Zaniolo)
Spezia - 3 (Caldara, Sala, Verde)
Empoli - 6 (Vicario, Luperto, Parisi, Bandinelli, Destro, Cambiaghi)
Verona - 4 (Montipo, Coppola, Faraoni, Lasagna)
Napoli - 2 (Meret, Di Lorenzo)
Juventus - 4 (Perin, Bonucci, Locatelli, Fagioli)
Sassuolo - 5 (Consigli, Ferrari, Frattesi, Berardi, Pinamonti)

 

I think young italians are finally taking the hint to move abroad. Shame on Maldini what a traitor

 

Which Italian would replace one of our starters?? Certainly at rw, sure..Berardi or anyone lol.

 

or Juve who are desperate for a LB. i just dont get it.

 

Sickening that the federation allows this to go on. We're at the point where 25% of starters will be Italian, if that. I'm not sure what can be done but our national team is finished as a European power until this gets better.

 

Gosens is miles ahead of udogie. If he's fit of course

 

Pobega played today...I wasn't impressed.
He looked way out of his depth. I prefer Krunic.

 

Its reached apocalypse levels, the federation is powerless, Serie A is by far the worst for domestic players in all of europe surpassing even England which I never thought would be possible, we have reached rock bottom levels. The only solution I see is for young players to move away from Serie A and not go to Serie B.

 

Go away honestly, this aint an Ac Milan forum.

 

Couldn't they mandate a certain number of Italians on the roster...i believe that happened in the 60's after Italy missed the world cup. It could happen again imo. Also a few years ago i believe there was something that mandated each team had to have a few players that had come up from the youth sector on the squad. I think it was three players but that should be doubled or tripled.

 

Pobega is an Italy international, so I believe my comment was relevant.

 

looking at the starting lineups this weekend...good lord serie a is a joke. Can't really see Italy qualify for another worldcup until things change.