He even said Vidal wanted to move. And in an interview contradicted himself saying the 'chilean was happy to stay'. Guy doesn't know what to feed the press. He's got almost zero media management skills, and his repertoire and skill set is linked more to saving money on deals and squeezing things down to the last penny. Thats quite a different skill-set to negotiating with big players and big clubs and getting them interested in our project, which incidentally had a lot going for it in the last term, and the best he could get out of that situation was fucking Hernanes. And I'm not even getting started on how Bayern got the better of us this summer.
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It doesn't matter when the deal went sour. If he was the main target, which in Marrotta's own words, he was one of the main ones, then there were no excuses not to get him. It also means, he was the kind of player Allegri wanted. We had the money, we made a sale of one of our pillars, and had a remarkable CL campaign to boot, and he couldn't close. There is going to come a season where you are going to be in a position to take that leap in the market, and this was that season. Next year, no CL, probably no Pogba, back to opportunity signings and free loans. This club is never getting out of the rut. If the CL final couldn't change the mindset, nothing will. Pathetic.