#2 Wonderkids will inspire current Primavera crop
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Everyone knows that Milan like to showcase a few youngsters in their first team every now and then – it’s something of a tradition. Their roll-call of famous academy graduates is quite the eye-catcher, in truth.
Gianluigi Donnarumma is no less an impressive member of their team than he was when he first made his senior team debut but his youthful exuberance, melded with an outstanding level of confident maturity, is certainly much more accepted nowadays.
The club have turned down some big money offers for the 17-year-old sensation already, and although pressure to sell him will only mount with every soundbite of praise he gets from Calcio idols, it’s vital they keep hold of him – and Manuel Locatelli.
They are two of the club's most outstanding Italian youngsters, and alongside the equally sprightly M’Baye Niang, Suso and Mario Pasalic, their fixtures in the squad will all play vital roles in showing the developing Primavera youngsters that burgeoning starlets do get chances to shine and make it at this club.
The more examples they can produce of this ethos, the less likely it is they’ll allow a future superstar, like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, to slip through their fingers again.
Crafting their rise back to the big time won’t just come from getting results now – it will arrive when the fledgeling superstars looking up at their youthful idols grow up to replace them to continue replenishing the club’s overall strength in depth. With time and care, that should see Milan regain their self-sustained way back to dominant glory.
