Sky Sports understands Leeds United are closing in on the signing of AC Milan youngster Zan Benedicic. Zan Benedicic is a Slovenian under 21 national Player. Zan Benedicic is just 18 years old who is a regular under 19 player for AC Milan. Zan Benedicic is an attacking midfielder for Milan.
Are you being serious Ristac? He has 0 first team appearances for ANY club, and his market value is £50k - why would you even be linked to him?
He is 18 years old and playing for a very large club. The fact he has no first team experience means nothing at his age imo. How many great great players had no first team experience at that age, the list is endless. I won't get excited by this signing unless he shows something in a game but I'm always for scouting young players with the potential to be big hits in the future.
Scoring 20 against the frog and ferret and the queens arm's don't count as real football goals.A C Millan under 19s is higher standard.
I hate to say this. TC is right. Loaning kids from italian youth set ups ain't going to help us in the deep mid winter at middlesborough.
If we were buying these players great, you could get excited about them and hope that they turn into something special. On the other hand teams like AC Milan allow very few youngsters to slip through the net so our only chance is to loan them. I look at loans over previous seasons of young players the most recent being Barkley, we don't have enough quality in the team to suit their style of play they leave and then a year later do fantastic for their previous clubs. The talent probably is there with this Zan guy but there are so many negatives about these young loan signings we are going for, we all know it isn't going to work, sadly Cellino still needs to learn that lesson.
Phil Hay and the Italian ITK guy say this is old news and we were refused the player. Always thought Sky were pretty reliable.
Just found this which is worrying: So he joins (possibly) knowing he is guaranteed a shirt and doesn't have to really try for it. He knows if he doesn't play he is recalled so as Chippy points out, a cold wet day in November is he really going to put the effort in? If we are still in for Vivani can we really play both these youngsters and Bianchi, where does that leave Murphy and Austin, who can play wide, the players we are being linked with confirms that we are not going to be playing with any width.
The useless overpaid British **** we had didn't put the effort in so I can't see the problem with signing foreign players. The Leeds teams humiliated and hammered by Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton, Rochdale etc were mainly British and Irish rubbish
