i love he complaint that he signed us only free or established players. like those cant be a risk. just ask chelsea with sheva and torres.
no one knew vidal, or pogba, or bara would turn out this good, or that pirlo would regain his form, or that tevez would adapt so quickly.
maybe we should sign playes like roma eh? send 20 million plus on every single under 25 year old player only to sell them a season later because or books cant handle such long term debt.
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nonsense. barza, vidal and pogba, and pirlo and tevez have become the fundamental players for the team. none of them were wanted at their clubs anymore and were not considered key players (except vidal and even then he was not this good) so your point is silly. he signed players that were key part in juventus' record breaking title runs. besides pirlo. did you even know or had seen any of those players before? i highly doubt it
ok. financially speaking:
barzagli cost 0,3 mil if he flops no harm
vidal cost 12 mil was one of the best if not the best player in germany, the risk that he flops was very tiny even if he had flopped the 12 mil could be easily recovered
pogba cost 0,3 mil one of the hottest prospects at the time, if he flops no harm
pirlo for free 3 years contract and big wages, there was little risk. even if he flopped there would be many teams who would take an out of form pirlo for even higher wages (usa, oil clubs etc)
tevez cost 9+6 mil come on the risk was minimal that this deal wouldn´t work out. Tevez was probably the strongest striker we got since zlatan, if he flopped nobody would blame marotta.
you are right he got these player and this is were credit is due.
But he was not responsible for implementing these players into the team and let their strengths shine. this was contes job.
i watched all these players with the exception of pogba but I don´t exactly know how that matters. people criticize marotta for the money wasting deals he made.