asamoah won every leftwing he faced so far, including chelsea and shaktar. He stated publicly that he came here and the purpose was to learn him this new position.
Lb ? we play a goddamn $#@!ing 3-5-2, that doesnt field a $#@!ing leftback. yet we have de ceglie, who is now swapped with obiang(massive talent) and replaced by peluso, who is a good enough option for a position we do not use !
Lack of prestige/experience outside italy ? For $#@!ing real ? what the $#@! do you expect the goddamn manager to do about this, apart from building a $#@!ing great squat that just topped their hard CL group, kicking CL holders out, AND GETTING THAT RECOGNITION.
I'm not even bothering with the rest of your stupid crap, its just to goddamn stupid to even react on
And napoleonic, $#@! you, go sit on a $#@!ing cactus and die of rectal bleeding.
Even the kids of 12 year old that played a $#@!ing manager game know, that transfer fee alone doesnt mean that much, as wages have a simular weight on the budged. We won the unbeaten scudetto with just the third highest wage bill, 60% of what milan has. compaed to allmost every team on that list, our wagebill is dwarfed by them and if you add total cost of wages to the investments they made, we'd not even be close to where we are now.
Not to mention, we rebuild from scratch. did you expect a manager to form an unbeaten scudetto winner, that breaks record points in a calenderyear, and wins the hardest CL group, without spending more then napoli ?
let me clarify some things :
1. I'm no cronios, I give marotta some credits, but max I can give him is 25% compared to much bigger percentage to the coaching team.
2. about the left side position in our squad; it take marotta almost 3 years to finally trying to solve the problem in the squad, and even then, objectively, marotta is only doing some half assed job there.
because
a. it doesn't matter what asamoah said that he was willing to try; to the whole world he was a CM, did you believe that granpa fergie thought that he would play asamoah as left winger/left back in united? if you believe that then you are without hope in this discussion.
that's like saying, if leali come forward and said : oh I can try being a striker at juve, and boom he became our top scorer in CL, won us treble etc, that's an amazing miracle, but can marotta goes forward and claim that he was the top striker and all of us should be thankful to marotta? everyone else with their right mind will ridicule marotta, that worked right, but that was kind of miracle than the fruit of marotta hardwork.
b. some of us will doubt marotta would've bought us left sided players if chiellini didn't injured and asamoah doesn't participate in african cup. that's a question worth pondering; after all it took him almost 3 years to do so and there were times when we badly need left sided players.
3. about prestige, I don't fully agree with cronios, but he does have a point there; marotta kind of trolled arsenal there, that's a gamble on his behalf because if someone did to me what marotta did, I'd rather stay away from him next time.
also don't forget, some people will also see marotta as someone who promised yet failed to deliver, not just once but 3 times already (of course, the top striker thing); this isn't good for his reputation, oh believe it, in business world this have some impact.
4. as I've said in the past, last summer it became clear that marotta didn't have plan B regarding the top striker target despite him having a whole summer, how else can you explain that? he trolled arsenal for their captain but ended up with arsenal reject after trying to hijack berbatov and pissed of another party we had some interest with (fio for jovetic)
I tell you this, I'd accept marotta for example if he came forward, being gentle admitted he has failed and actually said to the press that juve should've utilize boakye; than wasting money and effort for bendtner and berbatov! it's better for him to beg conte to use boakye than what he did.
5. on the wage bill people keep mentioning about.
obviously it mean for something, however marotta isn't the head of accounting, c'mon people, the board, ceo and economic division are the one who set the rules on that, based on their job.
marotta simply follow the rules.
did he succeed in bringing the wage bill down? YES, it's rather simple job actually (cut the wage bill), but wage of course doesn't always equal quality and performance and here's this source of discussion come from
6. players performances always depended on the coaching team, only a moron who doesn't know anything about sports can say that who did the transfer have much to do with player performances.
has marotta improved? I'd say quite yes, although not as much as I hoped for; but I will strongly oppose the notion that marotta should be equally praised as conte and his coaching team for juve performances.
and I say it again, as bad as secco was, I believe our past coaching teams failed us way more than secco and first year marotta failed us. That was the reason we ended up 7th twice!