I feel Marotta does deserve a fair share of the blame here and now. To start with, his vision has been questionable. To start off a season, aiming for fourth place is utterly and completely unacceptable. You can't define such objectives at a club that has had victory in its DNA for a 114 years. One disastrous season cannot shift mentalities so drastically. A large part of these objectives very clearly filter down into player mindsets, and they begin to work knowing hose objectives. It's almost subconscious. But without digressing, that apart, I even feel his handling of transfers showed us the the big club mentality he lacks in his repertoire.
Doing the Diego deal on Wolfsburg's terms, without securing a pre-agreement on Dzeko, who he publicly claimed to be Juve's priority showed his lack of finesse in continental
deals. Which I think to some extent explains his Italian fixation and his need to deal with Italian teams, his comfort zone. And even if he validates that by saying Italian players are most likely to adapt quicker in the league etc etc, then how on earth are we to forgive him, when he couldn't even secure the most talented Italian player of the generation for next to nothing. Sure, Cassano is a troublemaker, but he's also a match winner, something Juve have so desperately needed all season long, even before that season changing match against Chievo.
He may know him all too well from their time at Sampdoria, but if he knew what was best
for the club he would've taken the bull by the horns and gotten Antonio here. Instead I
feel like, again, he wanted to avoid upsetting Garrone who has absolutely no ties with
Juventus. Maybe a rational explanation for that would be that he wanted first rights on Pazzo, but he failed to get that job done too. All tell tale signs of a DG who can't cut it at a big club.
Clearly, his Sampdoria venture has conditioned him in a way that I feel is not likely to suit a big club like Juventus because this man has been unable to take that leap in his career when the opportunity presented itself. On one hand, we want to reduce the age group and
wage bill, on the other, we sign thirty three four year old Luca Toni on an 18 month
contract and pay him about the same we're paying a half year younger, sharper David Trezeguet whose still on our payroll but not on the team because we're reducing the
average age group (maybe we don't know how that deal really went down, and if Trezeguet is the one who wanted out, but if that was the case, why didn't we just sell him outright, why pay him when he's not even playing here?)
And sure, Bonucci, Quag, Sorensen, Krasic were value adds. But 15m for Bonucci showed how he only came thru as the highest bidder. Even Secco could've gotten him at that
price. And I'm not even going to get into the 12m we spent on Martinez. Quag for Diego would've been a masterstroke for some. But the way I see it, this move coincided with Fabio being in the form of his life, rather than Beppe's vision, because if it truly was about Marotta's vision, Fabio wouldn't have been third choice after collapsed moves for DiNatale and Boriello. And finally, as much as I love Matri, again, I don't know why so much time was lost in procuring his services when it was clear we needed a striker. Waiting till the last day didn't get him a better price, it only lost us two gamedays, that Matri could've scored in with or without the injured by then Toni.
Of course, to top it all, I think it was Marotta who brought Del Neri into the fold rather
than Agnelli, very clearly based on their working relationship at Sampdoria, again proving that this man knows nothing out of his comfort zone. In fact, even a fourth place objective may have seemed a more achievable task to 'him' personally rather than one in the best interests of the club.
I don't blame Marotta for not trying, but I think he's as lost and confused as Del Neri. These guys aren't only hurting us on the surface, but far more detrimentally, beneath it.
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