Serious question; Why does your club, management, coach etc have such a hard on for washed players and anything other clubs are dumping?
Just from memory, Rabiot, Di Maria, Pogba, Arthur, Paredes. I probably forgot some.
first of all, it's not the coaches that make these mercato moves but the club itself. allegri might have had some influence on this current mercato, still, it's a tendency that started well before allegri arrived and never stopped with pirlo or sarri either.
marotta-paratici were the pioneers for this practice. we signed barzagli from the wolfsburg bench (10/10 purchase), pirlo on a free (10/10), solid players like llorente (7/10) or khedira (8/10), duds like anelka (0/10), ramsey (2/10) or lucio (0/10). we traditionally like to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. and nothing really sticks lately. the latest free transfer i'd still do is di maria (i had high hopes for him), before that it was dani alves in '16, nothing great in between.
i think we should really start doing some stats based analysis before purchases. we were basically the only
serious big wealthy stupid enough club interested in signing pogba, arthur, ramsey or paredes. no way those guys' actual performances warranted their salaries.