juvefan27

Junior Member
Apr 17, 2012
341
Think about this:

The board realised we're ridiculously dominant in Serie A, but also that our squad which reached the Champions League final was on the older side. They see that CL final as the end of the cycle which started with Conte.

We get rid of Tevez (31), Pirlo (36), Vidal (28) and probably Llorente (30).
We bring in Dybala (21), Zaza (24), Rugani (20), Sturaro (22), Neto (25) and also get Mandzukic (29) and Khedira (28) so we're not losing all our experience.

Now, imagine that the board has reasoned we can retain Serie A this season without the players mentioned, and reach the CL quarter-finals (our stated aim).

Then consider that they're probably expecting these players to develop with us, as well as bringing Berardi back. Kinda seems like it's not haphazard, huh?

The best time to revolutionise the squad is from a position of strength. One step back, three forward.

Look at what happened to Inter after 2010. Imagine the meltdown if they sold Lucio, Sneijder, Milito and Eto'o that summer? But if they had, and invested sensibly, they probably wouldn't have been 8th last season...
Me, July 17th.

Basically as predicted, Champions League aside.

Beppe will reward those of us who never lost faith.
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,357
All our goals came from players that cost nothing except for Padoin.

:beppe:

Padoin was bought for more than what it cost to bring Cuadrado (loan), Pogba & Khedira. :D

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And this just came out:

Marotta director of the year
By Football Italia staff
:delpiero:

Juventus general manager Giuseppe Marotta has been named Director of the Year by the Football Leaders conference.

The Bianconeri director revolutionised the squad last summer, with Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal and Carlos Tevez leaving, while players such as Paulo Dybala, Sami Khedira and Alex Sandro arrived.

A poor start to the season saw Marotta draw criticism from elements of the Juve support, but the Old Lady have since opened-up a nine point lead at the top of Serie A and reached the Coppa Italia final.

The award is voted for by a panel of journalists, and will be presented to Marotta during the event which is scheduled for 24, 25 and 26 May in Amalfi

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@Bianconero_Aus :touched:
 

Hist

Founder of Hism
Jan 18, 2009
11,403
Did he make mistakes? Yes. Failure to buy a proper vice-marchisio and a CAM in the last market and panic buying Hernanes to fill those roles instead. We got punished for this by the poor start when Marchisio was absent.

Did he do good over all? Without doubt. The team recovered and will win the title in all likelihood. Every signing that he made (apart from Hernanes) did very well or was atleast useful in a good number of games. Lemina despite the long injury helped us in 4-5 games. Rugani did the same and looks like a good prospect. Even Hernanes was useful in a couple of games. Sandro turned out to be a great coup. Dybala turned out to be brilliant. Khedira did very well. Cuadrado did very well. All of them cost very little or were free apart from Sandro and to a greater extent Dybala both of which turned out to be worth every penny. The team will achieve the start of season objectives.

Does he deserve this award? Definitely. This is an award for the best transfer director in Serie A. Compare what he did to what any other director did in Serie A and you'll see how much better his work is. Milan did very well in signing Bacca, the rest (Kuka, Romagnoli etc..) and are so and so. They werent very poor but none of them was great either (not worth 25 mill certainly). Bertolacci was a 20 mill flop. Adriano was a 9 mill flop. Balo was a flop on a big wage. The coach they signed was sacked in the same year and their team has no chance of reaching their start of season objectives.

Inter's director did better than in previous years but still comes short of Marotta. Their guy bought a 31 mill flop in Kondogbia and a barely okay signing of perisic for 16 mill. Murillo, Miranda, Melo, Jovetic, ljajic were all loans and very cheap but the latter has an obligation to buy for little money but it seems that it wont be a great signing. Eder seems like a poor signing too. Their season objectives might be met or narrowly missed so they did better than Milan but definitely worse than Marotta.

Napoli did well as a team. Allan worked out well and Sarri is a good coach signing. Apart from that there is very little to be praised. Chirches was a 7 mill waste of money and Grass was an 8 mill waste of money. Valedifiori was a 5 mill waste of money. Still Marotta did better by the sheer quantity of transfers almost all of which were very good.

Roma did 2 pieces of good business in Salah and maybe Shaarawy. Rudiger was not bad either. But Ibarbo, Dzeko, Falque and Paredes werent good especially the first two which are terrible.

Marotta sweeps the floor with any of them. He signed lots of players more than anyone else and every single expensive one paid off excellently while some cheap/free ones also did great. Apart from Hernanes, we did great and we will meet our season objectives once again despite the massive change in the squad.
 

zizinho

Senior Member
Apr 14, 2013
51,815
Lemina is an amazing vice Marchisio, wtf youre talking about. We also went to Munich with Hernanes in that role and were the better team for atleast 60 minutes. Hernanes also was much better than Marchisio when he came in in the 1st game. Thats 2 vice Marchisio there.

As for AM i don't consider it a failure. There werent much options available and the few we targeted we did nothing wrong. Gotze decided hed rather be Guardiolas bitch than a star here, we werent ready to offer as much as Schalke and Draxler asked (rightly so) and that's about it. We chose the safe option in Cuadrado and were right. The mercato was a full success
 

Zacheryah

Senior Member
Aug 29, 2010
42,251
We dont need a CAM. Marotta looked at what could improve us, but the faggots didnt want to come, so he gave us cuadrado instead.

Vice Marchisio...Lemina looks like quite the talent and is improving by the game. As much as i dislike Hernanes, he was very solid against Bayern.


Without Marchisio and so much new players, we knew we would have a slow start. Not this slow, but it was expected. When the dust settled the team absolutely killed serie a because its that good and all youth started exploding.

He got nothing wrong. He made decisions that had risk in them, but we overcame that risk. Every single transfer he made during the summer, has been extremely succesfull. AGAIN.
 

Bianconero_Aus

Beppe Marotta Is My God
May 26, 2009
77,181
All our goals came from players that cost nothing except for Padoin.

:beppe:

Padoin was bought for more than what it cost to bring Cuadrado (loan), Pogba & Khedira. :D

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And this just came out:

Marotta director of the year
By Football Italia staff
:delpiero:

Juventus general manager Giuseppe Marotta has been named Director of the Year by the Football Leaders conference.

The Bianconeri director revolutionised the squad last summer, with Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal and Carlos Tevez leaving, while players such as Paulo Dybala, Sami Khedira and Alex Sandro arrived.

A poor start to the season saw Marotta draw criticism from elements of the Juve support, but the Old Lady have since opened-up a nine point lead at the top of Serie A and reached the Coppa Italia final.

The award is voted for by a panel of journalists, and will be presented to Marotta during the event which is scheduled for 24, 25 and 26 May in Amalfi

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@Bianconero_Aus :touched:
And now just read this thread on 1st September :touched: Its quiet and peaceful now...But a day after the window is closed, it'll be full of anger, insults, calls for his sacking, asking him to be arrested and decapitated etc.
 

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