El Sharaawy: Did Ac Milan Have A Youth Policy

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There are not many clubs in world football that has produced a lot of quality players

FC Barcelona without a doubt has come up with great squad from their La Masia academy but AC Milan has not done badly.

Milan has produced some exciting players and has let them join teams where they now flourish and there is one in Stephan El Sharaawy.

Massimo Donati was one of the young midfield sensations when he hit the stage in the early 2000’s as a youngster playing for Milan. Due to the availability and experience of the likes of Manuel Rui Costa, Clarence Seedorf, Massimo Ambrosini and Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, Donati could not cement a place in the Milan starting line-up. El Sharaawy in the early 2010’s faced the same problem due to his age. Donati’s life has never been better having played for Celtic Football club among a number of clubs.

Yoann Gourcuff was featured in Football Manager 2007 and 2008 and was even tagged the new Zinedine Zidane. Once again AC Milan allowed Gourcuff to leave on loan to Girondin Bordeaux and with time the deal became permanent. Gourcuff was one of the finest players around and had a unique way of posing himself for free kicks. Another Milan talent has gone waste because the club did not structure things well to see the creativity of such a talented midfielder.

Pierre Emerick Aubameyang has been tagged as the new face of African strikers. When he moved from Saint Etienne to Dortmund, many people ranked him next to nothing. But in just a few years he has turned from an average striker to a world class striker. He has scored 12 goals in all competitions this season which is bigger than the strikers of AC Milan combined.

This notwithstanding the fact that Carlos Bacca and Luis Adriano are churning out great performances for the red and black outfit and with time could do more. But the two players could have done more with the support of the flying winger Stephan El Sharaawy.

Aubameyang was a Milan youth product and once again he is helping grow Borussia Dortmund win games week in week out. Milan is in limbo and has gone from a World and European champion to a mid-table team in Serie A whose objectives for the season keeps changing with various match days.

Many people thought the sales of Shevchenko, Kaka, Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva would pave way for the likes of younger talents like El Sharaawy to develop in the team. Milan have other plans, sending them off and getting older players whose good days are all gone as there is no urgency to wear the iconic shirt.

Bryan Cristante is one of the finest midfielders that the world is going to see in the next two three years. Milan was on a project of building their youth to take up the roles that made Milan the best.

Last season Bryan Cristante was shipped to Benfica to add up to the already brimming talent of Nico Gaitan and to help Benfica win Laurels. Milan fans were not happy with this decision and they have been hit with another massive blow.

Stephan El-Sharaawy was loaned to AS Monaco at the back of a formation where he could not fit. An outmoded 4-3-1-2 position which saw the likes of Clarence Seedorf play as the attacking midfielder behind Ronaldo and Vieri at Internazionale Milano in the late 90’s. El Sharaawy fared well in the 4-3-3 position under Coach Massimiliano Allegri in the 2012/13 campaign.

NEWSPAPERS SPECULATING PERMANENT AS MONACO STAY FOR EL SHARAAWY

Reports coming out from tuttosport suggest that El Sharaawy’s deal is going to be made permanent so that he can continue to successfully help Monaco win games. Meanwhile Milan continues to struggle immensely and their fans cannot watch games but continue to find a meaning to the teams transfer policy.

Milan should have been lining up with the likes of El Sharaawy, Cristante, Aubameyang, Gourcuff and the addition of world class players like Carlos Bacca and Luis Adriano would have added invaluable support.

Now the big question and fear many Milanistas ask themselves is if the future of the team which was El Sharaawy has been made to complete a deal with AS Monaco, then how long are they going to hold onto the best under 20 player in the world being Hachim Mastour? Share your thoughts.