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Cronios, I remember you fapping all over the place when Tevez was brought as he was the finisher that you wanted for a long time; your own words. You even said that last summer's mercato was of the highest standard and for a while praised Marotta, something I've never thought would be possible, for a well done job as most objectives, if not all, were met.
And Klose is well past it, while Rossi is plagued with injuries and huge gamble that I wouldn't have liked for us to take.
Where did i say Tevez was a finisher? I did not!
Tevez was never a finisher, never will be, i was the one saying that instead of investing the majority of our transfer budget on more SSs and CMs, we should better invest on a finisher and LB,
not just now, ever since Zambro and Trezequet left us...
I said the same whenwe were getting Quaq, Vucinic, Amauri and Matri, i dont rate as finishers, any of them, some of them are CFs, but none is the prolific finisher to become Treze's heir.
How can one rate Tevez as such is beyond me.
Tevez is a quality player and i was glad that we got him at one point, because Marotta's alternative was Borriello.
You may remember this. He was the least evil. At the beginning of the season, i preferred Higuain over Tevez, because i believe that Higuain is the CF Tevez isnt and the partenrship of Tevez+Llorente is in my eyes, a lesser option than Vucinic+Higuain. I ve always believed that since the Secco days we were stacked up in SS and CM positions.
However Tevez has the extra ability of scoring, unlike the SSs like Vucinic, i know that Marotta cannot get us a quality finisher, he just cant, he never did and never will, so our best bet is a SS than score at decent rate and a half decent finisher like Llorente. I dont believe that MArotta can do any better than that, so we better stop wasting money on the forward line and fix our left wing and defense!
Bringing Tevez would end this charade and thats why i was happy with it, i still am, unless we keep spending the majority of our transfer budget on yet more SSs and CMs and keep ignoring the positions we lack decent options...
I also had issue with the finisher we got, Llorente.
He was never a +20 goal/season player and in the Spanish league its easier to accomplish that than in Italy.
There was a moment that he would be a fine upgrade, but Marotta was 3 years late, by the time we got him, his value was diminished, because he grew older, was perma-benched and we were succesfull enough to opt for a better solution.
I see this not as a victory now, but as a defeat of the previous years, when Conte was forced to field Borriello, because MArotta couldnt close the Llorente deal, or an alternative and would not invest on another one and because of his inabilities, we had to fight with a cripple player for the championship.
Others might have forget this, but i wont!!! How can one forget this?!?
And in the end, despite the huge handicaps the miracle maker Conte had to come by, to get that title, ppl cheer for Marotta...
What a disgrace, what an irony, Marotta was the main reason that we couldnt make it and he was praised for someone else's work
and here we are today, ppl chosing MArotta over Conte, after what happened... disgusting!