Marotta will be truly judged on this summer's mercato in my view. We will hopefully be playing CL football next season, so he knows we will need CL players, if he doesn't deliver quality then he will have to be shown the door, and his only good eye ripped out for buying mostly shit players for 3 summers running.
This is what everyone is afraid of, that he will not be able to deliver on this.
However, this poses a very interesting dilemna.
Can you fire a DS who had a hand in turning around a 7th place team to a CL squad in 2 years, without giving him the chance to be able to acquire the players?
And what i am going to say next even confuses me when I think about it. How far along in the summer do you go, if the reality sets in that he can't obtain said CL quality players, before you fire him?
It's a very delicate issue, when you think about it.
You say to yourself, "OK, Marotta. You helped get Juve this far, now its time to step up and take it to the next level."
But the transfer window is 2 months long, its not a sprint. Do people call for his heads if no significant activity takes place within the first three weeks?
Moggi was at his best during the last 2 weeks of the transfer window (Zlatan on the last day, for example)