@Cronios
1-When players like DP, Trezeguet, Nedved, Camo etc started to fade away or eventually were released we couldn't replace them with 1-2 great signings per year. That's something Secco and Blanc should have thought about when they were still around.
2-And no there weren't gazillion squad players. Only useless garbage like Grygera, Tiago, Salihamidzic, Amauri...
3-Keeping the likes of Diego, Krasic and Melo and leaving them on the bench would only further decrease their sale value. We were lucky to receive the offers we have for them. Melo is still here unfortunately but I expect it to be solved very soon.
4-As for Marotta spending his whole career with small clubs? Well you have to learn somewhere. You don't expect big clubs to hire inexperienced person for GM. Where was Galliani before Milan, Moggi before Napoli and so on...
5-Conte asked for quality 2 years ago? What are Pirlo, Vidal, Licht if not quality players? Last year we had different problem. It's very hard you know to lure top players into your club when first team coach is facing 1 year suspension.
6-Marotta had his blunders and no one is denying that. Certainly 12M on Martinez or 15M on Krasic could have been spent wisely. But you disregard good things and excessively exaggerate bad ones which makes discussion kinda pointless. We'll see how this summer turns out. Transfer period hasn't even started.
1-Tell that to the Secco and Blanc apologists, i was insisting from the very first day, that the attack on us was to robb us from our most valuable aspect, the main reason that kept us competitive, the triade and the reforming should start from there, or we are to waste the decade in a slow rebuild...
2-well thats exactly what depth players are supposed to be, only that they were used as difference makers...
3-They should form as fillers and then depth, releasing them for frm, buy new fillers and then extra depth makes no sense...
4-So, we are to be the test ground? The place for experiments, smaller clubs do that, that they have less to do, not established clubs. When we got him, we couldnt afford more, no we can!
5-Pirlo, vidal, Vucinic and Pogba were opportunity targets. Good players of course and conte took the better of them, but we were stacked up in those positions (CM and SS), Marotta took them just because they happened to be available for a good bank for the buck. There is a surplus in production of CMs and SS, they are easier to find and opportunity arises, thats why Secco was buying a pair in each and every year. What we lacked the most though and would have the biggest impact didnt!
The Italian NT for has a headache to decide upon the CMs and SS, but have little to no options on the LB, LM and finisher, those positions have limite supply, they cannot be fixed with random opportunity targets. This is where a proper transfer manager would show his value. And thats why i insist considering Licht as Marotta's finest transfer!!
But i have litlle respect for opportunity targets, anyone with the right money and Juve's name on his back can accomplish them, even Secco did.
And whats worse is that many times it comes in the expense of what we need the most.
6- I dont disregard or exaggerate as much as the Marotta apologists, for every one Licht, Marotta has bought 3 Elia, Motta and Isla, so its the numbers that actually count against him...
and when we have a 25mil acquisition go wrong, its not like its smth that can be taken lightly and can be easily overlooked, esp when its so platanly obvious that it will fail and we are about to pay a huge cost for this. I have objected a huge number of transfers for very specific reasons, which were in time proven correct. If i, a simple fan could see that and avoid it, then how comes a man paid for this job and trusted 25mil for a transfer couldnt? Marotta has made many elementary mistakes and whats worse is that he is not learning anything from them, he has the tendency to repeat them.
Prime example, we suffered from Molinaro so much and then he brings freebies like Grosso and Zeglier and now Peluso, he just never learns. The co own deals without clause is yet another proof that he has learnt nothing from his mistakes.
Wasting the entire summer transfer window on unrealistic targets like Dzeko and because of that end up with Borriello, didnt prevent him to lose another one for RVP and end up with Bendtner...
He may not had the the experience of big clubs, but he ought to have the intelligence not to get owned from the same issue over and over again...
we have seen enough, there should be no more tolerance, but he will be given another chance anyway.
I blame this one on our board, they are at fault if Marotta will once again prove his incompetence and we will fail to grow where we needed the most and waste one more season with mediocre depth transfers.
It remains to be seen indeed, a Diamanti would just end the debate...