This year is completely on Marotta. He failed in his job. He sold the best player, and cleared salary from 3 massive contracts. Allegri asks for 1 type of player - a TQ, he gets him a winger so Allegri needs to change his formation. He then gives everyone hope that he will get that TQ, he is completely incompetent in bidding, so we get a bench player from Inter.
He really should be fired. It takes a special kind of stupid to cause the level of regression that we've taken this year. It's not Allegri's fault, it's not the player's fault, it's completely Marotta. The result? The brand will hurt. If the team had invested in getting a real world class player, we'd get more casual fans and it would improve the team's position in world football. Instead we're 10th in Serie A, and underperforming in the UCL because we're fielding players who have no business playing for a top seeded team in a top 4 league.