Bringing in a forward in January while we already have five can only mean one thing.
You cant be this pessimistic.There's a reason Conte requested for a striker despite having a 6 point lead in Serie A and its as mentioned above.
Conte disregards cups, he proved that time and time again, he prefers losing the cup, by fielding subs vs the strongest team, than risk losing his lead in the championship...
Conte did not ask it. We have a long long tradition, making such extremely stupid moves ever since we were relegated to serie B and long before Conte arrived.
Iaquinta, Quaq, Amauri, Matri, Vucinici etc, the pattern is the same, we use 15-22mil to buy a limited mediocre forward, prefarably Italian, or at least being hyped in Italy.
Aforward that is respected more for his efforts and the spectacle that he might create and less for his end result. So none of them was consistent, stable enough for the long run, or even had a one wonderfull season
scoring +20league goals.
The patterns repeats it self and the criteria is mediocrity...
We have suffered a lot because of such transfers. Such players cannot make thedifference on the field, they only serve to appease a certain type of fans, who are excited by the promise a new forward brings.
When the new shiny toy gets old, it is expelled like a garbage and most of the times, we lose, or the biggest part of our investment.
This deals heavy damage on our financial and prevents us of raising funds to buy top quality forwards.
In the past we made excuse for our selves, that we cannot afford such players, or that we cannot appeal to them because we dont fight for titles, but it should be beyond obvious by know, that it is our choice!