Julien Laurens

Because if you only have then 30% left for your Italian players there, and this is not a quota, this is what the clubs are doing.

They don't have to do it.

It's not like if you need seven players out of ten to be foreigners in your squads.

then that doesn't leave much space for young talent.

When you look at Pio Esposito, who had to wait until he was 20 to make his Serie A debut, and by the way, a few days later got his first call-up for Italy.

I think it's all there.

It shows you this is somebody who should have started.

It doesn't have to be for a top club.

He should have started in Serie A because he was good enough already when he was 18.

By now, he would have two years of experience in Serie A.

And then by 20, when he's called up for the first time by Italy, he would have that kind of track record with him.

Not a few days after making his debut in Serie A, being called up for Italy.

And you can look at a lot of other players like that and be in that position kind of thing.

Yeah, but I think the clubs have to look at themselves as well.

And I know it's expensive to have a really good academy.

I know it takes a long time because when you get a player seven or eight, it will take you 10 years to work with him every day, to invest in him until you can bring something to your first team.

So I get that.

And clearly, a lot of Italian clubs, and not just in Italy, but in a lot of other countries, just don't fancy it.

It's better to sign a 25-year-old from somewhere else in Europe

than trying to produce your own striker from the age of 8 or 10.