It's not just about the budget Cronios, this team showed the potential to beat everyone in this league, maybe except Inter, but we couldn't beat most of them, because of Ranieri's approach and his character, if it wasn't his wrong mentality, we could not lose the lead of many of the games, and win more points. The wage budget is over the most of serie A teams, even fiorentina and Roma. The transfer amount we spent on players is much more than the other serie A teams, the income of the tv rights, and many other things is much more than Roma and Fiorentina, financial wise, maybe there are two teams we can't compete with in serie A, Milan and Inter. Someone showed a statistic that day, and we were ranked 12 or something in Europe financial wise, so we really are not a poor club Cronios, if we had a manager with character and vision, he would insist to sign the right players for the right prices, instead of wasting all the cash on three defensive players..
I generally agree my friend,about the things you said for our potential,
but, when i m saying budget, you must also consider the budget destined for our coach too, it might look ridiculous, but it did matter for our managers...i know, a tragic situation, but thats how it is!
I had this in mind when i referred to "budget limitations"!
Our annual budget had to include our coaches salary too

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if our owners had the intention to bring anyone better, they would have looked elsewhere from the beginning. They dont want or they cant invest to a better and more expensive coach!
Now regarding the rest of your post, i think you are too optimistic,
we are certainly not the poorest club of the league and with the increased venues we might as well become the 3rd power in the league,next year, surpassing Roma and Fiorentina,
BUT so far our owners didnt show the intentions to invest enough to compete with the best on the league.
All of our transfers so far, both tactical and strategical, hint that their intentions is not to build a team able to challenge any titles.
We used to live by excuses, that big players wont accept to join us bla bla bla,
but it had been proved that we failed to sign them, only by our budget limitations.
We are not as wealthy and powerful as we used to be and even if we were, our current transfer manager is very very very inefficient and he will fail to close the good deals in our favor, other teams will get the best players, or we will end up paying overpriced players just like we did so far.
Now, if we call a big coach like Mourinho or Lippi, you guys are dreaming, he will ask for some specific long term plans, budget and the authority to build a competitive team!
They will not discuss any contract without those conditions, simply because they may find many clubs that may offer these conditions.
Why would Mourinho accept to join Juve for a halved salary and without any chances of creating a competitive team, now or in the future, that may actually win a title???
Big coaches have big ambitions, they dont waste their time to chase UEFA cups and 4th positions in domestic championships.
Our board members, have demonstrated that they dont intend to let our coach to chose our budget and transfer policy, that was the main reason they sacked DD
and that was the main reason they hired CR, it is a priority for them, for this year at least.
Great coaches work by this type of control as a standard!
We have mentioned these things many times before, dont make me repeat them...