only-juve

Senior Member
Jan 5, 2008
7,451
Buying bonucci for 15 mil is another ridicolous move. Selling half of Giovinco who's an Italian NT player and was the "star" of the Italian U-21 team for just 3.5 millions is another big question mark. Letting go of Trezeguet and replacing him with a washed up Toni for almost the same Salary didn't help too. Not to mention the Diego case.

Overall Marotta was average IMO, made some decent move in the market and some bad moves. I certainly wouldn't call him great for that......
 

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Bianconero81

Ageing Veteran
Jan 26, 2009
40,177
This guy is absolute shit. False promises, BS about buying players on our terms, "Champions" which we have seen nothing of, and apparently we are being linked with Elia as the solution to our LW problem. This man is a serious cancer. I hope we don't renew his contract. Having said that, he has 3 more weeks to dramatically turn this Mercato around. I don't see it happening though.
 

Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
36,185
i don't understand the criticism for bonucci transfer. at the time both bonucci was coming off a solid season with bari. add to the fact he is a young cb, who must i remind you can be very expensive and 15 million is not a a lot. how could marotta have known he would not turn out according to expectations? he mad ea gamble and it didn't work out. big deal.
 

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Moderator
Nov 26, 2006
47,024
Take into account in the Bonucci transfer that the figure of 15m is partly down to Criscito also being over-valued in the deal.
 

Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
36,185
also diego is a terrible player as proven by his performance past season with wolfsburg.

secco made mistake paying 25 million for him, and we did well to get rid of him last season, because if we tried to get rid of himthis summer he would be only worth 4 million.
 

Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
36,185
i would say the only mistake marotta has made so far is not signing david villa. otherwise he has been responsible for saving juve from becoming relegation ffighters.
 

Nenz

Senior Member
Apr 17, 2008
10,472
Lets face it. Diego looked like he was worth the money we paid for him when we bought him.

Marotta is looking more incompetent selling players than buying them this mercato. Last mercato he sucked at both. Laying the foundations for the squad by signing 11 new players only to buy another 7 the next season just goes to show his last mercato was a complete waste of many millions of euros. He's hardly redeemed himself for that by selling players like Melo and Giovinco for peanuts, trying to sell half of players like Sorensen and failing to sign anyone world class. He might have not said outright that he would sign an Aguero type player but he failed to sign anyone of similar quality which he was apparently looking for. Vidal, Lichtsteiner and Vucinic are all positive signings but that doesn't redeem his incompetence. Moreover, he made a promise to keep wages and the average age of the squad low and then he bought Pirlo and give him high wages. He also failed to assign a good manager twice now.
 

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