Apart from from failing to bring TQ Marotta mainly succeded in what seemed to be our objectives for the summer. Getting young and talented LB (we are set for years now), the most promising young forward and CB in Italy and in the end brought Cuadrado, player that will add another dimension to our game. Lemina so far seems like another good signing. Imagine the scenario where we would have failed to bring Dybala or Sandro and entirely relied on 34 yo Evra with Padoin as his 1st sub, Tevez whose contract was bound to expire next summer and also you can raise question how much that kind of player would be motivated to perform, when he set his mind to leave, decision he had been contemplating probably more than a year. The point is we could have done everything differently and there are gazillion various outcomes, but failing to bring TQ isnt the reason for the situation we find ourselves in. The reason I have mentioned TQ is that more than a few times I have seen people bringing up players like Draxler or Gotze as making that much of a difference, asuming we wouldnt be in this state; difference between title challengers and 15th place on the table, which is absurd. There are ofc other dealing during the summer but that one in particular seemed to be preventing Allegri to fully deploy preferred 4-3-1-2. Highly doubt that Vidal would change much here either. We have always known that at one point losing 2-3 key players will become unavoidable and players like Tevez and Pirlo can't guarantee any kind of transfer fee to compensate their contribution of the pitch. Champions. Good coach needs to adapt and find a way with given players, especially since those are some pretty good ones and most managers would have been thrilled if they had been given squad as talented as ours. I would fully understand losing some big ties, especially in the beginning (e.g. Roma, Napoli) where every small detail counts and games are sometimes decided by incidents completely out of hand. But this cant be said for the game against Napoli, where we were completely overrun and never looked like a proper team, when almost every 50/50 ball would find its way to their players feet, where majority of the time players looked bewildered and without any kind of sense as to what their tasks are on the field. This has to do with coaching and setting up the team for the game, mentality is wrong and our confidence has reached rock bottom, since we previously couldnt beat vastly inferior teams. This is where Allegri's blame lies. There can't be any excuse found for obtaining 1 point in the games vs Udinese, Frosinone and Chievo. Unacceptable.
I hope we get out of this pit, I think we will hit the right form and Max might finally set his mind on formation that would bring the most out of players at his disposal (his job), but those first few rounds really exposed some of his weaknesess as a manager.
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