I think you should feel stupid for point 3, a team that is rebuilding needs to fill the holes that currently exist in the sqaud, so we need to look at our central areas which were pathetic and reinforce them, buying 2 high quality central midfielders instead of one would be ideal, and if you think joorabchain would sell mascherano for 14mil euros your living in dream land, mascherano wouldnt be sold for any less than £18million.
i agree, iaquinta was a risk for the price we paid but it was a sensible move as hes a talented player and ideal back up for treze. As for ribery did the though ever occur to you that he didnt want to move to juve? or that we were never really interested in him. if your going to talk about such players then throw henry, heinze and chivu into the mix as well.
Its not as straight forwad as expressing an interest in someone and signing them, there is actually a lot more to it than that, and believe it or not juventus in its current state, with no european football, a jigsaw team and a manager who has not won anything to make you sit up and listen actually doesnt appeal to many players.