He also signed Bonucci in the same window,also Del Neri showed a lot of faith in De Ceglie in that season.He bought Motta too who at that time was a pretty decent option..Lets be honest he did address our defensive weaknesses quite a bit, but our net spend was comparitively low that season hence that many loan deals ,we werent the Italian champions nor we had CL football to attract quality players either.
Whilst i agree with Marotta here that we need a player who fits the system most importantly and who can obviously provide us that step up in quality in attack rather than buying a 'big name' just for the sake of it,there's no excuse this time if he lands Pazzini here based on that notion.(He is hardly an upgrade infact he's an inferior option to our current attack)