I think a smaller squad, with more quality and a larger role to our youngsters would offer more or less the same results, without a great loss to the practical overall quality but maybe an advanced help from the quality to the games we have suffered from lack of quality. And most important, a much more easier and effective work, for the building up of our future, competitive Juve.
Tiago, Almiron, Poulsen, Andrade etc already proved that they were not essential to our cause. History has already proven that!
And chances are, that they are not going to be essential to our cause, in the future either...
We could have trusted our youngsters more and maybe bring some of them earlier. We could also keep some of the squad players, we released for nothing, for added depth. The loses on results would have been minimal, esp if the youngsters/released players, were paired with a couple of quality and reliable starters!
A couple of quality starters/season would already give as a competitive squad, starting from next year! 2+2+2= half of the squad +Chiellini+ Buffon+ Treze+ DP+ Camo+ only a couple of our most promising youngsters (like Marchisio+Giovinco), would give us a full squad, of competitive players!
A squad that actually has a chance to win smth.
By the time we are going to add those extra players we didnt, DP, Treze and Camo will be nearly retirement and we will have to replace them instead of adding more starters!
Thats why i insistent we shouldnt waste so much time
Esp not this year...
PS If Poulsen was a strategical choice as a sub for a future competitive team, then why didnt we offload Tiago already,we keep Zanetti and we got Marchisio for? The Marchisio was brought in for that particular role. We should first decide if he is good enough to be a starter and then decide if we need a starter or a sub like Poulsen when Zanetti or Tiago leaves us.
In the mean time, when we buy subs that might be useful for the future, we lack starters today in our defense. When are we going to start enhancing our defense?? With the money we used to get Poulsen, we could get a starter full back!