Carrera:
(The question of a British journalist in the audience, ed) It's clear that Bendtner was not the first choice of Juventus. What do you expect from him?
"We have certainly seen the tapes, it is a player's area, a player who is good technically, so it might be a viable solution, an alternative to our game."
Doesn't really look like he's going to start a lot of matches for us.
Exactly. People here are all asking "OMG, what was Marotta's thinking, he must be an idiot, it makes no sense to go from RVP to Bendtner, where is our top striker" bla, bla, bla.
But what Carrera said ise exactly how I see Bendtner. He won't be a starter for us, he wasn't bought to be the top player, he won't be the star of our attack.
THere was simply no top striker on the market we could get. People think that buying a player is as easy as in FM. Clubs are not stupid to let go of their best players without a fight or at least without getting the best pssible deal for him, so it's ridiculous to say that we should have bought Jovetić in July or Džeko, etc. If reports are to believed, we tried for Jovetić, Fiorentina didn't want to let him go annd convinced him to stay. Even if they were willing to sell him, I doubt they would have done it in July, instead of waiting to see what the best offer is.
Džeko couldn't be sold because Mancini didnt want to, they don't actually need to sell him, they have a 4th striker who scored 15 league goals last season, which other club has that? They didn't bring anybody in to replace him, he didnt fight to much to be sold so the status quo was kept.
LLorente was a good option, but in the end Athletic proved to be unreasonable and nothing could be done there. RVP cost a huge amount of money and on a huge contract. Anyobody who thinks we could have gotten Higuain is smoking some strong shit. That left players like Lebanowski or Damiao who are not top quality but would cost 20-25 mil € and would take away the money for the top striker.
On top of all this, the fact is that we are to leasst attractive package to players, and that they would choose other leagues before us.
Bendtner was brought in to be an alternative, to give us one more option in attack, to provide variety so we can have tactical flexibility and try different things if Plan A isn't working.
He came on a free loan and wil probably not be bought. Even if he is, he will be bought as a sub.
People were asking for Marotta not to buy anything if we cant get a top striker. If they were happy getting noone, how can they be unhappy getting another option for nothing? Basically, we have the same attack as last year with Gio coming in for Ale and bendtner for Boriello.
The top striker simply wasn't there.