Just an example: He sold Diego and Krasic for a combined fee of 22,5 million.
Now Iaquinta, Amauri and Melo were all tougher to offload, as they are very poor players on huge contracts.
Sorry but that is simply not true, Melo had outstanding seasons with Galatasaray yet Marotta couldn't sell his ass to them. You know, Melo's case shows exactly how bad a negotiator Marotta really is.
We bought the guy for 25 mil (not his fault I know that), we loaned him out to Galatasaray with an option to buy him for 13 mil and he had a great season there YET they don't buy him and they tried to lower his price even though they had spent Around 9 mil on that bold Moroccan winger (don't remember his name).
What Marotta did ? loaned him again for the same club that is pretty much screwing us with an option to buy for even lesser price Probably around 6 millions ! And I'm telling you right now they won't even buy him for that price. They'll loan him again and again until his contract expires with us and they can have him for free then.
Even though it's So obvious we're getting screwed with that deal, Marotta defenders will still find excuses for the guy. I remember when I first joined this forum back in 2008 I plus few others said from day one that Secco is simply shit at what's his doing yet many here still defended the guy up until he left.