Monaco continues the policy of 'harvesting young rice'

The Monaco side are rattling the market for Ligue 1 with consecutive rivals landing at Louis II in the past few days. However, the 11 recruits they bring in this summer are mostly under 20 years old.

PSG star: Neymar
Monaco coach: Leonardo Jardim
Monaco continues the policy of "harvesting young rice".
Still like the previous summer, Monaco is the most exciting animator in the French football industry. While the three PSGs, Lyon and Marseille have only recruited 1 rookie each, the Louis II team has 11 recruits. Before considering the recruitment of seasoned players, filling the empty space of the column has just gone, the football team wants to "resolve" the club's long-term future. That is to buy the very young players to forge a few seasons, then promoted in the Ligue 1 and the European Cup.

That is, Monaco is focusing on the policy of promoting young players (buying or training themselves) and then selling them for profit, instead of buying players maturity for the title competition in the Ligue 1. In support of this policy, Monaco signed a contract with Michael Emenalo in November 1977, who developed the idea of ​​investing in a potential young player at Chelsea. Typical of this policy is the transfer of strikes like Kylian Mbappe or Anthony Martial.

Monaco never won hands for young players in the same transfer period, which they invested in a pillow. Every summer, they bring back a certain amount of talent to foster, forging. This summer, the average age of recruits Monaco does not exceed 19 years. There are also Willem Geubbels (16) from Lyon for € 20 million, Ronaël Pierre-Gabriel (20) from St.Etienne with € 6 million or Jonathan Panzo (17) from Chelsea.

Most of the young talents that Monaco aims at are players who have not signed professional contracts with the training team. They choose to go to Monaco instead of Manchester United or Milan because they have more opportunities to play in the French league when the current coach of this team is Leonardo Jardim who likes to use young players. In January of the same year, Italian football prodigy Pietro Pellegri (Genoa) chose Monaco after denying Juventus and Milan a huge transfer fee of 25 million euros. Monaco's recruitment market is also diverse and diverse: from Belgium to Italy, Portugal to England and to Brazil. Regardless of where it is, Monaco also has a very effective network of young talent monitoring and discovery.

However, there is a big question that is the power and ambition of Monaco in Ligue next season will go to? As top players like Fabinho, Thomas Lemar and Adama Diakhaby broke away from the club in the summer of 2018, Jardim's young talent is undisputed. During the past three years, the Portuguese strategist has brought Monaco to the money. But, continuing with the policy of "picking young rice" this, the football team has eliminated itself from the French championship since the Ligue 1 season 2018/19 has not yet begun.

On February 17, 1974, at age 16 and 336, Pietro Pellegri became the youngest player in the history of Monaco to play in a Ligue 1 match against Dijon for 40 years. Italian giants beat Kylian Mbappe's record for just 11 days (16 and 347 days).

Monaco U21 squad in Ligue 1 next season
Since last season, Monaco has owned many young talents from 21 years old down. Young players who buy and train themselves can form a U21 squad in Monaco playing in Ligue 1 next season.

(*) Monaco has no goalkeeper under 21