Mazzara explains why Milan Futuro project ‘will have to be razed to the ground’ | OneFootball

After a poor year for AC Milan, it would be hoped that the youth teams would provide a little something more. Unfortunately, the Futuro has not.

Milan find themselves in a situation that is perilous for any European club, let alone one with the size of the Rossoneri. After losing their past three games, there are a string of questions being asked of the team, but the woes extend to the club as a whole, making things even more frustrating, and in turn, toxic.

Rather than being the opportunity that the Diavolo dreamt it would be, the Futuro has stumbled, tripped and fallen this season, failing to produce anything near the levels hoped on its inception. Instead, the youth team are falling way below the levels needed, and the project is rightly being deemed a failure so far.

Pietro Mazzara’s words for Milan News can be found below, and it is fair to say that he has not held back.

“Massimo Oddo and Mauro Tassotti are two true Milanisti and have taken to heart the situation of Milan Futuro, who lost yesterday against Legnago, who were one man down at the end of the first half. But it is the whole project of the Rossoneri’s second team that, if it remains in C, will have to be razed to the ground again.

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“First and foremost, a structure will be needed that knows the league, the players and the dynamics, so not a novice to the role like Kirovski, but a director who knows how to handle the material. Also because – spoiler – to date Milan Futuro has exceeded the overall budget for the season by more than 2 million.

“Then a clear strategy will be needed: the Milan Futuro players must stay with Milan Futuro. They must grow, but within the everyday reality of a Serie C reality and not do as they did this season, where several players were taken away from Milan Futuro from the evening for the morning or were sent down from the first team in the same way.

“No one had to invent anything, it was enough to copy what Juventus did with the Next Gen and not expect first-team players in a few months (Alex Jimenez is the exception, not the rule).”