We could have looked for creativity, but I'm betting CR didn't like the options he had with the budget that he had, remember Amauri didn't come via Cash, it was cash + player.
This means, had we the cash to buy a great creative player last season, a proven champion as you call it, I bet we would have.
How can you be sure of that, since we didnt even try, our first priority was to get Amauri all along. Smth we have been planning, even before the transfer window started.
If we were spending 15mil cash, + Nocerino+ Zalayeta to Napoli, we could sign Hamsik, i m sure of it! Or any other similar target in Italy.
We could also sign a top CB or RB, for the sum we gave to Poulsen!
But bringing in a creative player was a secondary target. Enforcing our defense was nearly neglettable, we just brought a free player, which have been arranged half a season before. Our priority was to sign Amauri, like he could solve our creativity issues, or enforce our weakest link, the defense.
Same thing can be said for the previous year, bar the obvious need for a CM and we also seem to follow the same pattern even now, despite already having 4 top class forwards and 2-3 more available youngsters...
But I think CR knew we had limited budget, and thus rather wait this year, after CL and better budget, to get a proven one. (i seriously hope so atleast)
This is a valid point, this year there are absolutely no more excuses left!!
This year we will see if our management had any kind of plan/vision, when they were making those transfers, or they were just stalling time with quick fixes, wasting money left and right!
If they spend the bulk of our transfer budget and keep using Molinaro, Grygera and Marchionni as starters, i expect you guy to run out of excuses for them and accept their incompetence with dignity!
Again you are looking at our transfers with the idea that our board is seriously making a challange last year and this year, if you consider the idea that our board is looking to challange next season or the one after, then you'll realize that who we buy, is for the team of the coming season, not this season alone.
On the contrary, only because of our choices i was convinced that we never actually had a chance to win anything this year!!
I would adore to see us investing on our future, even if that means that we would have to make some sacrifices momentarily. But i only see the exact opposite.
Thats exactly why i dint want a useless squad player like Poulsen,
Poulsen will never become world class, he wont a be starter in our future competitive Juve, he isnt even a starter now. Whats the point of wasting the very limited funds we have on subs, when we are not supposed to compete for any titles this season??
If we were signing less junk, like Almiron and Poulsen, we could have saved this money and buy a good starter that would fit in our long term plans.
But we already wasted millions upon millions on squad players, that would give us a temporal advantage. I dont see us respecting neither a short, or long term plan. Def not a long term plan. Is Almiron someone who would give us an advantage to win a title in the long term?? If we want just more depth, we could sign free players like Mellberg, or trust our very promising youngsters more!
When we were signing Iaquinta, did we have in mind that we will sign Amauri in the next year and Cassano right after that.
What kind of advantage Iaq gives us in the long run then??
The only real logic behind the transfers of Almiron, Mellberg, Molinaro, Grygera, Andrade, Iaquinta etc are to add momentarily depth to a half decent squad.
Their only practical use for a competitive team, would be a substitution role.
But baring in mind that we already had some promising youngsters for the sub role (Marchisio, Criscito, De Ceglie, Giovinco, Palladino and some would be (in 2-3 season from the moment we started buying them) relics, left in our squad, (Zanetti, Salih, DP, Kovac, Neddy, etc)
There was actually no need to waste any money, for practically no real advantage, neither tactical or strategical!
If we were really planning for the future, we would have half of this junk and 2-3 more starters by now, or at least the necessary funds them now, with the added CL prestige and income.
But we did wasted that money for a momentary gain and only, we won nothing more our remaining champions and youngsters would have won.
Adn furthermore, we were forced to correct those choices, spending even more money to correct them (Amauri for the strategical mistake called Iaquinta and Sissoko for the strategical and tactical mistake called Almiron), In the mean time we are abusing Neddy and use Moli+Grygera+Marchionni as starters...:melayyanandmessi:
If they fix that this season, then i ll admit that indeed they had some short of a plan in "mind"!!
And frankly, i ll be pleased that despite the mistakes, we already paid for and the far from optimal strategy we followed,
they have finally realized our needs and work towards them!
My expectations are very low now and very easily met.
I can only hope that an attempt to fix only half of the 4 places, we mentioned/need, will be made. Just half of them and only an attempt will please me.
I dont demand all of them and no results. Just to see us moving on the right direction. But if we instead buy Cassano and no fullbacks...

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