Please stop. We had 30m for JoJo. If we were serious enough about Higuain or even Dzeko, and took that money and offered it to their teams and pursued them long and hard enough, for the duration of the summer, or the two months that we had after signing Giovinco, Isla and Asamoah, we would've had them. All it takes is a clear focus to know what you are after. In Marrotta's case he went looking for the cheapest deal. If you're trying to tell me, 25m was offered for Dzeko in mid august, amd Shitty would refuse, youre delusional. Also, I'd like to bring to your notice, that he would've fallen within our wage structure too. We were not focused enough. We looked for the best deal, Llorente being the cheapest of the lot, seemingly, and we got burnt. You don't operate like that in the continental market. And you can take it from me, first hand, that come next summer Llorente will not join Juventus either. We will go through exactly the same torment thanks to Marrotta's incompetency and people like you moaning about how out of reach players are. It's a fucking joke really,
I don't think it's that easy as just spamming their fax mashines with better and better offers. It was clear that to all those players bar JoJo we are not prime real estate, but in JoJo case if we blieve what media is telling us, is that it's not Marottas fault, but Fiorentina not wanting to sell.
What do you suggest to have done different? Offer more money, overpay? Offer bigger contracts and overpay there too?
Llorente, poped up just at the end of the marcet no?
And look, I'm not saying that Marotta did a good job in the strikers department, if you read forums you will see what kind of opinion I have about our latest striker, but all in all, he made us stronger and more competative, and he did that with players that will only get better and will make a core of a team for years, and that ain't a bad thing. The striker fiasco is certainly nothing to be proud of, specially when he talked all summer about it, but all in all he did good. Remember, no ones perfect and if this is the kind of inperfect that we get, I'm ok with it.
Plus, we already have a core team, it's obvious what next needs to be improved, he himslef nows this, just wasn't able to impliment it yet, so judging how he bought, vidal, asamoah, pirlo, isla, pogba, i'm quite confident we will be alright in a year or two.