A quick look at this from 2001.
2001-02
Gianluigi Buffon
Lilian Thuram
Pavel Nedved
Cristian Zenoni
Marcelo Salas
2002-03
Salvatore Fresi
Davide Baiocco
Mauro Camoranesi
Marco Di Vaio
Ruben Olivera
Manuele Blasi
2003-04
Fabrizio Miccoli
Stephen Appiah
Nicola Legrottaglie
2004-05
Emerson
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Fabio Cannavaro
Olivier Kapo
Adrian Mutu
2005-06
Giorgio Chiellini
Patrick Vieira
Robert Kovac
Federico Balzaretti
Domenico Criscito
Giuliano Giannichedda
Gladstone
Christian Abbiati
Those in green you can pretty much say for sure were very good or good, those in red failures, the rest up to opinion.
For Marotta, judging from one torrid season and could change with a good year, but as it stands:
Marco Storari
Marco Motta
Andrea Barzagli
Armand Traore
Leandro Rinaudo
Leonardo Bonucci
Frederik Sorensen
Alberto Aquilani
Simone Pepe
Milos Krasic
Fabio Quagliarella
Luca Toni
Alessandro Matri
Jorge Martinez
Then this season to come.
Very different challenges for both directors, it has to be said. Moggi certainly added less in terms of numbers, whether it was a case that he chose to do that or didn't need to do that. I think the latter. He was in a position over several years where he could buy in a bit more quality each year (or choose not to), and then exchange the peripheral players.
2001-02
Gianluigi Buffon
Lilian Thuram
Pavel Nedved
Cristian Zenoni
Marcelo Salas
2002-03
Salvatore Fresi
Davide Baiocco
Mauro Camoranesi
Marco Di Vaio
Ruben Olivera
Manuele Blasi
2003-04
Fabrizio Miccoli
Stephen Appiah
Nicola Legrottaglie
2004-05
Emerson
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Fabio Cannavaro
Olivier Kapo
Adrian Mutu
2005-06
Giorgio Chiellini
Patrick Vieira
Robert Kovac
Federico Balzaretti
Domenico Criscito
Giuliano Giannichedda
Gladstone
Christian Abbiati
Those in green you can pretty much say for sure were very good or good, those in red failures, the rest up to opinion.
For Marotta, judging from one torrid season and could change with a good year, but as it stands:
Marco Storari
Marco Motta
Andrea Barzagli
Armand Traore
Leandro Rinaudo
Leonardo Bonucci
Frederik Sorensen
Alberto Aquilani
Simone Pepe
Milos Krasic
Fabio Quagliarella
Luca Toni
Alessandro Matri
Jorge Martinez
Then this season to come.
Very different challenges for both directors, it has to be said. Moggi certainly added less in terms of numbers, whether it was a case that he chose to do that or didn't need to do that. I think the latter. He was in a position over several years where he could buy in a bit more quality each year (or choose not to), and then exchange the peripheral players.
1. The good signings are in different level - Thuram Buffon Nedved Cannavaro WC and also other players were great such as Camoranesi and Ibrahimovic. There is no one WC on Marotta`s list
2. Moggi`s signings were in most cases value=money or even value>money. Marotta`s signings are more value<money
3. Salas wasnt a bad signing, He was actually a good player who got unlucky and got injured. His injury changed it all for him.
4. Other players which you mentioned as bad transfers werent that bad as we didnt spend big on them and their purpose was to fill the squad and they were ok at it. (Zenoni and Baiocco for example)
5. Di Vaio wasnt bad at all. He wasnt great eigther but I wouldnt say he was a bad transfer. I`d put him in the debatable ones.
6. I really dont agree about the bold part as apart from Vieira they would have come even if we were at the position we are at now as all the players apart from Vieira were signed from a mid table teams or small clubs
For example Nedved who is a legend came from Lazio, Buffon and Thuram came from Parma. The only exception are Vieira and Cannavaro. Cannavaro would have come as he didnt get play time at Inter and was considered surplus to requirements.
Vieira came from Arsenal and I doubt he would have come had we been the Juve we are now.
So Marotta can go to any club in the world apart from the top ones and get whoever he wants IF he offers the right amount of cash for the club and for the player
