With just 7 days to go the the window closing, the transfer activity has descended into something approaching farce.
The mercato started well woth Dybala.
It quickly went down hill with the way we sold Vidal at a low price with seemingly little negotiating skill against wily German counterparts. in connexion with Gotze and Draxler negotiations I got the firm impression that Marotta is trying in each case to buy something equivalent to a high spec demonstrator Audi/BMW for the price of a 2nd hand VW Beetle with 45000 on the clock.
We know from experience, Vidal/Leverkusen apart, that German clubs play hardball to the end. One has only to look at Man United's hopeless pursuit of Thomas Muller with Bayern and Man City failing badly with Wolfsburg (de Bruyne) to realize that
Marotta offering something akin to peanuts in both cases was not just patronising but offensive.
Now with just four working days left we are looking at failure to address the critical AM problem. Times have changed and sadly, complacency has led us to be in a situation whereby our squad is deficient in a Serie A context. In a CL perspective we are woefully short of competing with Bayern, both Madrids, at least one Manchester club (probably both)and at least one London club.
4 days to act and the clock is ticking away relentlessly.