Is it mindless hate though? the question must be asked if Marotta has paid too much and brought in the wrong players in certain cases. The fact remains that he has yet to buy us a proper striker despite spending a good amount of money on our forwards. I think what Cron tries to get at a lot of the time is that we seem to have no problem paying over the odds for squad players and getting bargains but in our most vital area he is proving hideously inept. One would think that another SD could have signed Llorente by nowbut of course we have to think of Conte and who he wants for the team too. We've spent our way to the title and a lot of the expenditure was wasted money.
Why would one think that? The Bilbao president was out claiming that Llorente would not leave before his contract runs out, unless a team meets the 36 MILLION euro buy out clause in his contract.
Now, is Marotta a better or worse SD for not spending 36million euro's on a player that he can get for free in 6 months?
Is he a better or worse SD for building a scudetto winning and champions league playing team with the financial restraints put on him by our board?
Martinez, Motta & Elia were failures - but every SD has made those, it's a part of the game. I think it is mindless hate -
One would think that people would have recovered from those failures after the season we endured and given our current position. But no, some debbie downers prefer to focus on the negative, and in cases where there is nothing negative to speak of, they bring up past minor failures.
Oh, and when they're not in this thread giving The Great Man hate, they're in the player threads praising the very players that Marotta got here for pennies considering their worth. Figure that.