It'd be the same amount of money we had this season, and Marotta managed to buy 11 players. Eleven!! I reckon we could get 2 or 3 world class players and a better coach to be competitive again.
What 2 or 3 world class players would you have bought with the money we had?
As far as I can see, we needed at least 3 players in defence alone, so your world class players wouldn't really go that far.
Also wishing for the team to lose because
you feel that Marotta hasn't done a good job kinda just makes it look like your considering yourself to be an expert in this kind of thing, which, imo, you really don't seem to be.
I personally feel that at the end of the season it'l be much easier to see how well Marotta's transfer's have gone, rather than wishing for them to fail before they get a chance.
Personally, I feel he's done a good job with transfers. He's bought players we need for the system, unlike Secoo who just bought whoever he thought looked good at the time. He's given them a decent wage, rather than just throwing money at them to get the to play like Poulsen. And he's got rid of the players with a high wage, or those who were earning too much for the amount they could contribute to a season, like Camo or Trez.
Sure, there hasn't been all the superstar names that we all wanted, but there were too many holes that needed filling. We have the basis for a good team, especially who's main ambition is to qualify for the champions league and nothing more. If we succeed in that, then we can buy our 2-3 world class players and the team would be incredibly strong. Imagine signing a world class lb, lw and cf next season and the team starts to look like it could be challenging for the Scudetto.
Judging from what I've read, alot of you will probably paint me with the overly optimistic brush, I personally just feel I'm being realistic about the strength of the players and the team for our aims. Sure flashy world class players would have been nice, would have probably sold more shirts, but the players we bought were players we needed to buy to fill the weak spots left by the previous management.
Edit: A few posts while I was typing this covered the same points, ah well.