What would you have done? (If you were in charge what 3 players would you have bought, how exactly, and who would you have sold?) Just players and rough idea of value would be nice, no need to elaborate
Andy won't answer my damn question...
Sorry, I was on my Blackberry and had to resume driving.
If I was in charge, the left and right back slots would have already been addressed last season. Would have snatched up Cissokho and Lichtsteiner last summer instead of bringing in Melo. Diego and Giovinco would have stayed, of course. Fucking retarded to let them go. Then I would have made a move for Carvalho at 10M Euros or Tasci at 10M Euros, Krasic at 15M Euros, and Schweinsteiger at 30M Euros or Xabi or van der Vaart. A few cheaper signings, probably young talents, would have made up the rest.
At the very least our defense would be in better order and the creativity issue would have been addressed. I know that Bastian most likely wouldn't sign, but it would be worth a try anyway.
This is just off the top of my head, and it really depends on what sort of system I'd be dealing with. But I haven't really thought about this as I would have been buying young talents since we came back from B.
His plan is very clear to me. Look at all the loan deals. He wants to use these guys to get us back into CL and then from there we can do much more. More money, more appeal. In the meantime, if a guy like Quagliarella suddenly takes a huge step forward, we have the option to buy him. If not, then at least he helped us make CL (if all things go well).
I'm not going to say he's done a great job but it hasn't been terrible. He has put us in a position to qualify for CL. He's put us in a better position to qualify than we were in last year. And he hasn't broke the bank to do it.
He's done a slightly above average job in my mind taking into account realistic expectations, resources and things like that.
NEXT YEAR, if we qualify for CL, will be the year I really judge him harshly because then we will be in a much better position to get talent and if he doesn't deliver I will be upset. But IMO it's a 2 year process: Find guys to help us now and get back to CL, then next year we can do much more.
But the problem with this is that he's dealing with known average players who command a decent amount of transfer fees if we wish to sign them. Plus you also have to admit that we might be wasting an entire year of rebuilding. That's why it would be better taking a risk on younger players with proven quality, like a Neymar, Ganso, et cetera. The latter is probably going to be released for the price of Martinez for fucks sake.
No way!
You have psychic abilities too? So many around this forum do we are so lucky to have them all.
Well, Vinni said we wouldn't make top 4 last season, and he was right. The only reason why he's hated on Juventuz is because he doesn't share everyone's Kool-Aid and irrational hope based on nothing. And the best part about him is that while he loves the Azzurri, he absolutely abhors their mediocre players coming into Juve. That sounds like a much more proper fan than others around here.